SOCIAL STYLEsm Training for Managers
Improving Managerial Effectiveness with Versatility
(Half-day Concepts Course)
Teaches managers the core concepts of SOCIAL STYLE to improve interactions with their direct reports. This
course will teach managers to understand their own behavioural style and the behavioural style of their direct reports. Armed
with this information, managers can learn how similar and different SOCIAL STYLEs interact to affect productivity, effectiveness,
and morale in the workplace.
Improving Managerial Effectiveness with Versatility
(Half-day Applications Course)
An interactive, highly focused course that assists managers in creating more productive relationships with
direct reports. The Concepts Course or a similar conceptual course is a pre-requisite to the Applications Course. Managers
will participate in exercises that apply their conceptual knowledge of SOCIAL STYLE and stretch their abilities to interact
with direct reports of similar or different SOCIAL STYLEs. During these exercises managers will learn how to increase or decrease
tension to achieve the highest level of productivity and to speak to their reports in a manner that fosters respect.
(Full, one-day Mastery Program)
The Mastery Program is a course that begins by teaching the concepts of TRACOM's SOCIAL STYLE &
Versatility. Once a solid foundation is established, managers will begin to apply these concepts through exercises and identification
techniques. After completion of the Mastery Program, participants will know their own SOCIAL STYLE and determine the SOCIAL
STYLE of their direct reports. Managers will learn how to control their behaviors when interacting with direct reports of
varying SOCIAL STYLEs. Using this information, managers will know how to anticipate reactions of their direct reports and
how to reduce tension while increasing productivity, morale and open communication.
