Personal effectiveness skills are those skills needed to take responsibility for developing and managing yourself to improve your personal and professional performance.  Personal effectiveness skills include:

Being able to identify your personal style and the impact it has on others.

The ability to adapt your ‘style’ of interaction to suit individuals and situations.

Be able to manage your own development.

Effective team working – both as team members and leaders.

Managing your workload effectively.

Managing stress.


Personal Effectivenss

Learners Direct Personal Effectiveness at Work

http://www.leadersdirect.com/perseffect.html

Series of resources looking at setting goals and objectives, handling transitions at work, making the most of your time and effective meetings.

Personal Effectiveness – a guide to action

http://www.cipd.co.uk/Bookstore/_catalogue/LearningAndDevelopment/1843980029.htm?IsSrchRes=1

Published by the CIPD, includes a sample chapter on Personal effectiveness which can be downloaded. 

Identifying your personal style and the impact it has on others. 

"The more you understand about your own personality and that of other people, the better able you are to realise how others perceive you, and how they react to your own personality and style. “ 

http://www.businessballs.com/personalitystylesmodels.htm 

Site gives an overview of the various personality assessments available.

Myers Briggs  Type Indicator (MBTI)  

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a personality assessment which measures your preferences in how you perceive the world and make decisions. 

http://www.personalitypage.com/html/info.html

Myers-Briggs Personaltiy Profiles including how each Myers-Briggs type contributes to a team.  http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/myers-briggs/myers-briggs.htm

Myers-Briggs Foundation

http://www.myersbriggs.org/

Keirsey Temperament Sorter

Wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey_Temperament_Sorter

Official Keirsey website with an overview of the four temperaments, along with a free test to 

 http://www.keirsey.com/

Benziger's Brain Types – developed by Dr Katherine Benziger.  Her work focuses on individuals natural thinking and work styles.

http://www.benziger.org/

Webpage from Business Balls providing an overview of Benziger’s model with suggested careers for each type. 

http://www.businessballs.com/benzigerpersonalityassessment.htm

Being an Effective Team Member

Belbin Team roles

Belbin identified 9 team roles that individuals assume and suggested that people tend to adopt a particular team role but the team roles people adopt is dependent upon the team they are working with, and the work they are doing.

http://www.belbin.com/

Belbin Team roles from Mindtools website

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_83.htm

Team working

How to be a good team player (from Mind tools)

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_53.htm

Ten qualities of an effective team player

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/ten-qualities-of-an-effective-team-player.html

Being effective in meetings

Effective meetings.com – series of tips on meetings

http://www.effectivemeetings.com/meetingbasics/index.asp

Running effective meetings

http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/RunningMeetings.htm (mindtools)

Time Management

Personal Time Management Guide – series of articles looking at how to manage your time more effectively.  Includes a section on setting goals and objectives, avoiding procrastination, and working in a team   

http://www.time-management-guide.com/

Time Management from Mind Tools website – includes

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_HTE.htm