How Strong Teams Leverage Different Personality Types

About this episode

The episode discusses how different personality types can improve team dynamics in MBA programs.

Harvard Business School Professor Len Schlesinger and TypeCoach President Rob Toomey join Brian Kenny to discuss the two mini cases, Night Two in Hanoi: Team Dynamics Under Pressure and Day 6 in Buenos Aires: Fatto Bene. They explore MBA students’ journeys through the first-year FIELD Global Capstone course and how the TypeCoach personality classications taught them how to recognize and work across cognitive differences, ultimately improving team dynamics and their final project outcome.

People in this episode

Host: Brian Kenny

Guests: Len Schlesinger, Rob Toomey

Topics covered

• team dynamics
• personality types
• MBA education
• cognitive differences
• global capstone course

Keywords

• team dynamics
• personality types
• MBA
• FIELD Global Capstone
• cognitive differences

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TypeCoach, Harvard Business School

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