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.

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Mentor's Advice - 2 A mentor is a person who has more experience than you and is glad to share his experience with you in order to support you and help you to get rid of your fears, helps you to set priorities in your goals and guides you on your path. I believe if I had ever had a psychologist, he would have been called my mentor as a person who spends time with me privately and listens to me and guides me. Who else is often willing to listen how our life goes? Our close relatives and friends. And as we can call almost all the people around us our teachers, so we could call our parents and friends. However quite often they are the people I’ve been talking about, who give some advise even unnecessary, unempathetic and against your plans. While searching for a synonyms to the word “mentor”, I found the following: master, tutor, coach, teacher, counselor and instructor. Let’s speak of gurus and instructors or fitness-trainers. I used to go to yoga-classes and my friends were surprised by the way I chose my instructors. I didn’t simply visit the closest to my house fitness center or choose the preferred yoga course. I chose my instructors by their personality and could follow them and visit their classes in different city districts. I trusted to what they say no matter if it was called Kundalini or aero-yoga. You may say, that was my mentor’s search. The next person whom we could consider as our mentor is our boss. Right, you need to be a lucky one to say so but here is my story. I believe that a manager is supposed to develop their employees and i had such a boss! Her name is Maria. I got promoted 3 times when we were working together. At some point she was fired and few years lates I was fired. So even considering that we have not been working together for a while, she has helped me not only in emotional way. I addresed to experience she had and I’m thankful to her for spending time with me, helping me to find more information on prospective places to work and preparing for interviews. As a conclusion I’d like to say 2 things: 1. Pay attention to the choice of your enviroment 2. Think of 3 skills you’d like to improve. Think of 3 people who could be your mentors. Contact them and ask, if they agree to be your mentors. This is beneficial for both of you, a mentor and a protege.

Mentor's Advice_1 The world "advice" often confuses Russian learners, as it's uncountable in English and countable in Russian. Today I'm going to use this word 17 times during my speech, let's see how many times will be grammatically correct. Did you know that in Soviet time USSR was called “a country of advice”? That’s a joke, however still we are often advised on different topics by many different people from our babushka to an unknown man in metro. Sometimes we don’t even ask for it. Are they informed enough of our current situation? Do they have right to give us some advice? Do they have more life experience? Who are those people who’s advise we follow? Most of us would probably agree that our environment has a great influence on us. At the same time the choice of our environment might be thoughtless and given to mercy of fate. They same if you are the cleverest one in the room, you are in the wrong room. We spend a lot of time communicating with our school teachers who share their knowledge sometimes not limited by school program, educate us, teach us to act in society and have a great influence on child’s mind. Do we choose our school teachers? Quite often even our parents do not have an opportunity to do so. I know a story when a school teacher manager to develop the worst student in the class into the best one and can only imagine how much efforts he used spending extra time and paying extra attention to the child. Belief and right attitude made their job and of course that’s possible only in 1 to 1 work. We can call such a teacher a real mentor. A teacher taking responsibility for your diploma project has much stronger connection with you as a professional and his personality has bigger influence on you than just a lecturer. Will you call him a mentor? TM divides such concepts as “a coach” and “a mentor”. A coach is working on you in a short-term manner with a specific goal and usually this goal is skill-based. He takes responsibility on the methods how you will achieve that goal. By the way did you know that here in Russia we have negative connotations to the word “coach”. Once you say coach we imagine a 20-years old young man who pretends to be super-productive, super-effective and rich and who says he will teach you how to reach the same if you pay him. So be careful with using this word.

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Leadership * To get a manager position leads to crucial changes in employee’s view. We used to say, that our manager stays late for no reason, but once I became an assistant manager, I realized, that my amount of work does not correlate to my staff’s workload. Moreover, once you start to communicate more with your company HODs, you have wider understanding of its goals, management system and procedures – that is impossible to know otherwise. * The personality of your manager is crucial to you. Especially, if you plan to get an administrative position. I would advise you to choose your workplace by choosing your boss. He is the one you are going to follow and probably, you will copy his behavior and habits, consciously or unconsciously. For instance, I had a manager, who didn’t respect private timing. And keeping in mind how many problems that has caused for me, I knew, I needed not to copy this character trait with my employees. * Here is another advice. If you are looking for administrative position, pay attention to your manager’s behavior in stress situations. Which decisions he makes? Why? What are the alternatives and consequences? What would you do in the same situation? These questions and answers will help you to create a certain mindset. * How to lead in charity club, where people volunteer to take some duties? People don’t get paid and the leader is not like a boss at workplace. How to keep people motivated if they have found another occupation to be in higher priority? If a leader can not push to do some job, how to inspire people or what tools to use?

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