Learning how to effectively collaborate with a teammate can take months or years. Sharing your Persona.bio profile accelerates the process for people to understand you. You can advertise the who/what/when/where of how you work, communicate and learn.
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Create a Persona.bio and publish your personality traits, communication styles, and other key attributes so your teammates can understand you better. These are personal characteristics that you would not communicate on a resume or Linkedin profile.
Do you prefer written or verbal communication?
Publish your Meyers Brigs, Enneagram or PrinciplesYou archetype.
Are you super productive early in the morning and prefer that meetings take place in the afternoon?
Do you ’think’ in Mandarin but speak English?
What is your learning style? Visual, Verbal, Written.
Do you hate slack and SMS?
What is your superpower that you want your teammates to know about?
Do you thrive in chaos? or preferred a meticulously planned project?
Do you have specific gender pronouns?
Do you have a PHD and prefer to be called Doctor?
Do you go by a nickname?
Do you have pet peeves that really irritate you?
If you manage or work with teammates you should have a Persona.bio
Knowledge workers have complex jobs. Your ‘in the zone’ time must be protected. A persona.bio helps you advertise how to work best with you. Do you prefer ‘No Meetings before lunch’ and think Slack is a time suck? Are you a wizard with statistics and prefer written communication? Let the world know with a persona.bio
Create your persona nowConsultants work with wide range of ever evolving teammates. A persona.bio helps your new team members and clients understand you better and how to get the most of your services.
Create your persona nowWorking on large IT projects involves many types of people with differing and complementing skills. Advertising your persona.bio will help you understand your team better.
Create your persona nowExecutives require their direct reports to summarize and report critical business information in order for you to make key decisions. Sharing key aspects of your personality and decision making process with a persona.bio aids your direct reports tailor reports and information in the most impactful way.
Create your persona nowProfessors mentor an evolving set of students. A Persona.bio helps your students effectively communicate and understand you better.
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Sally hates Slack and prefers verbal face to face meetings. Do NOT expect any meaningful answers from her on Slack and don’t take it personally if she does not respond. Schedule a meeting to talk through issues.
Mark was born in France and ’thinks’ in French. He is a brilliant data scientist. However, you have to be mindful of his communication style when conversing in English. Always double check that he understands the requirements, and it was not misinterpreted.
