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True Colors: Retreat
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What Is True Colors?
“Successful people know who they are…
when you know your core values and feel good about them, you can perform at your highest potential...you have the basis to communicate, motivate, and achieve common goals [in your team] with utmost dignity, efficacy, and mutual respect.”
-Don Lowry, Creator of True Colors
...And help your teammates get there too!
Remember Who You Are and Your True Color Leadership...
Let's Take the Inventory and Find Out!
Let's see if we can guess each other's colors!
Time to Find Your Color Team
How do I communicate to others?
Internationally recognized self inventory and assessment tool based on the research of Don Lowry
Check out your worksheet and as a group:
Create a NEW Kind of Pokemon Card That Describes Your Color
1) What are your strengths, joys, values, and needs?
2) What are your stressors and frustrations?
3) What is one thing that is misunderstood about your style?
Your team will have 4 minutes to present your poster. You will have 12 minutes to prep your masterpiece. Be inclusive, everyone in the group must present.
In Your Color Teams...
Designed to:
-Help you better understand yourself and others
-Promote the appreciation of individual differences
How do I speak to a green?
• Use clear and precise language
• Use logic in support of your decision
• Get right to the point
• Keep the conversation relevant
• Ask meaningful questions
• Talk about possibilities
Teams Present: Greens Are...
*Trivia: Can you name all three "green" PEOPLE for a prize?!
Teams Present:
Golds Are...
*Trivia: Can you name all three "gold" PEOPLE for a prize?!
Best Practices:
How do we help each other out back on campus?
How do I talk to a gold?
• Give straightforward information
• Use references to the past & tradition
• Don’t get sidetracked
• Keep conversation in order
• Follow an agenda
• Talk about responsibilities
How do I talk to a “blue?”
• Relate what you are saying to feelings
• Avoid open criticism
• Put peoples needs ahead of procedures
• Be honest and genuine
• Leave room for input and questions
• Keep your promises
Teams Present:
Oranges Are...
*Trivia: Can you name all three "orange" PEOPLE for a prize?!
Teams Present:
Blues Are...
How do I talk to an orange?
• Cut to the heart of a problem
• Give them the straight stuff
• Be bold and say what is on your mind
• Focus on action
• Talk about results
• Keep the conversation lively
*Trivia: Can you name all three "blue" people for a prize?!
Our Purpose Today
What are some things you do to keep your team (with all their different personalities) engaged and productive?
Best Practices:
Bring it Back to Meetings
Try out these pre-meeting team building activities to get your team to know each other, foster participation, and acknowledge their True Colors. (You'll notice some are familiar to how this workshop is set up!)
Be Cognizant of...
- Pigeonholing
- One color vs. spectrum
- Losing sight of people’s complexity
- Engaging in expected behaviors
- Using “style” as excuse for behavior
References
- J. Barry Mascari, Ed.D.
- Director, NJCASC at Kean University
- Jane Webber, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, New Jersey City Univ.
- Trainer for the NJCASC
- http://www.truecolorsworkshops.com/true-colors-personality-types-famous-people-history/
Thank You!
Misha Maggi
Cañada College
Discover Your True Color
- For Your Blue Teammates:
- Warm up with fun facts about each other or highs and get bys of the week
Do I think first?
- For Your Green Teammates:
- Solve a problem together before the meeting: do a team brainteaser or team trivia
Do I Share Stories First?
Do I talk it out first?
- For Your Orange Teammates:
- Do something fun with less structure, let the team be creative or act it out. Open the meeting with "dream vacation" or "if you were a ______, what would you be?"
Learn What True Colors Is
- For Your Gold Teammates:
- Have an agenda and go around the room to talk about what the team accomplished that week and what you still want to accomplish this week