Communication Style -2 Those were some advice given by Adizes to P-type, which I find relevant to myself. Now let me emphasize what I find really useful in the book: Adizes gives recommendations how to communicate with other types. You might have done it unconscious, when you present new idea to a boss, one manager needs more numbers and facts to support your idea, otherwise he will refuse it, another would like the idea but will never give it a go in reality and so on. What I found really curious is what the word “no” may mean different things. P-type as myself see only black and white and we always want to know exact answer is it “yes” or “no”. P-type doesn’t know the reasons why the person said “no” and how to persuade him. The answer is a constant. For A-type “no” means “I don’t have enough information to say “yes”. He could change his mind once you provide more details on your idea. E-type is interested in everything new that’s why he would probably say “yes” first and forget the talk. He hates to refuse opportunities and whenever he would say “no”, you won’t be able to change his mind. Such a small details, just an easy word “no” – and how many meanings it has.. In general, why do we need this PAEI typology? Because of the great idea of Adizes. In classic management theory, one must become a perfect manager. Adizes says that a manager should cover 1 function perfectly and other 3 on an average level. That means that the recommended leadership structure involves not one perfect leader but a team of leaders. Their collaboration, their strengths are the key to success. And that is why it’s very important that those leaders know how to communicate with each other, how to understand each other. I felt that during the time I was a club president in TM. The people in the team were different, had different points of view, experience and working model. When you know how to deal with those people, that leads the team to success. Thank you!

Communication Style -1 Strong connection between leadership and communication skills always admires me. Here is a simple example: a manager has to deal with many different people and he is supposed to find the correct approach to each of them in order to motivate the employees or persuade a boss. And that’s when communication style is important. Today I’m going to tell you about the book called “Leading the Leaders” by Ichak Adizes. Adizes divided all the leaders into 4 styles based on 4 functions and calls that PAEI system: P is for Producer, A for Administrator, E for Entrepreneur, I for Integrator. There are no specific instructions in the book on how to define your style however later on I found a PAEI test available online. Not like when you real a medical book and might apply all the illnesses and diseases to yourself, I managed to categorize myself to P (Producer) type based on my typical behavior patterns. I may say, I consider this book as my mentor, because thanks to reading that I managed to analyze my behavior, realize my mistakes at work place, find out alternative ways of dealing with work routine and get a room for improvement. Let me give some examples: As a P-type, I’m bad at delegating. I tend to accomplish most of the tasks by my own and rarely think of the consequences of such behavior. That doesn’t give an opportunity to my employees to grow, moreover if I don’t spend time explaining them on how to help me with some tasks – they could never help me as they have no skills and that means I could not delegate them. Here is another problem. Since I don’t delegate and am overloaded with some current tasks I may forget about strategic and global goals. It’s important to focus on your strategic goals as that may lead to the situations when some tactic goals and tasks won’t be relevant anymore. I might find some meetings boring (as I need to spend time on my current tasks as you may remember) and keep silent. However I have never thought how other managers may interpret my silence. As well I need to pay attention to the moments when other participants keep silent and try to understand the internal reasons of that.