Broadcasts.com - "Learning Styles" (Life is Work)

RESULT: To provide an overview of different learning styles and personality types so that you can feel equipped to craft your meetings, workplaces (and life spaces!) to equitably meet everyone’s learning style needs, and, as always, understand why people are the way they are!
Camnecdote - consider being the flight attendant of all situations

Protein - Main Event - Topic d’jour

Learning Styles
- Numba 1 - Visual, Kinesthetic, Auditory
  - Visual: Gotta see it (Powerpoint VISUALS, not heavy text, handouts, see it in an email, etc).
  - Kinesthetic: benefit from doing it (simulations, walking through particular scenarios)
  - Auditory: Can hear it and know it (lectures, prefer phone calls)
- How to use this knowledge:
  - Cater meetings to equitably met everyone’s learning style needs
    - Pretty, intentional powerpoint
    - Have examples of specific scenarios - bonus if the scenarios include the kinesthetic learners experience specifically, plus have things to play with! (squigee balls, slinkies, lil toys)
    - Have phone call/conversation follow ups with your auditory learners, make sure they got everything and make sure you are intentional about what information you are audibly providing in the meeting - make it meaningful!
- Numba 2: MBTI
  - Meyers Briggs Type Indicator
  - 4 letters
    - Extroversion vs. Introversion
      - We have an episode on this!
      - At a basic level, the direction we focus our attention and energy
      - Process aloud vs. internally
    - Sensing vs. Intuition
      - The way we take in information
      - Sensing - attentive to little things and details, relies on facts and experience, practical and realistic, specific and literal when speaking, lives in the present dealing with the here in now, prefers reality to fantasy
      - Intuition - sees patterns, connections, meanings in information, uses imagination, lives in the future, prefers imagination and ingenuity to reality
    - Thinking vs. Feeling
      - The way we make decisions
      - Thinking - Uses logic to analyze the problem, focuses on facts and principles, good at analyzing the situation, focuses on tasks and results over relationships, straightforward, may overlook the personal impact of decisions
      - Feeling - Uses personal values to understand the situation, focuses on the values of the group, good at understanding people’s viewpoints, concentrates on relationship and harmony, avoids conflicts, may overlook the logical
    - Judging vs. Perceiving
      - The way we act in the outer world
      - Judging - likes to make plans and to follow them, likes to get things settled and finished, likes structure and clear limits, enjoys being decisive and organized, handles deadlines and time limits comfortably, plans ahead to avoid last minute rushes
      - Perceiving - likes responding to changing situations, likes to leave things open, gather more information, likes environments that are flexible, enjoys to wait and see what happens, tends to think that there is plenty of time, often has to rush to complete things

We all use both preferences but usually not with equal comfort!

Danielle - ENFJ
- “The Teacher”
  - Charismatic, Idealistic, Persuasive, Organized, Values connection with other people
Cam - INFJ
- “The Counselor”
  - Reflective, Idealistic, Organized, Caring, Enjoys Intellectual Stimulation
Numba 3: Enneagram
- 9 personality types
- A tool to understand emotional outlooks on life as well as personal motivations. It will not cure one's problems, but may help point out their underlying fixations. It is also useful as a guide to how other people see the world differently.
- Should not be used as a stereotype - enneagram just helps reveal our tendencies and motivations, and is a spectrum. People are complex, and knowing someone’s number does not necessarily predict how they will always think and act, but it is a helpful tool to help understand how people interact with the world.
  - Ex - Cam is a 6
  - Ex - Dan is a 3
Mel’s Mindful Minute:45:55
- 5-5 Breath
We Are Always Students
- Book Riot Article - “Where to start with books on personality types”
- The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso
- Quiet
Sharing is Self-Caring
- Self-care
  - Determine your MBTI!
    - Test
  - Determine your Enneagram number!
    - Test
  - Reflection: How do my personal tendencies affect my internal thoughts? My motivations? My goals? My values?
- Community-care
  - How do my friends, family, and co-workers differ from your own tendencies?
  - Reflection: How can you support one another?
- Systems-care
  - Do the wider systems you live in - workplace, family structure, belief systems - favor particular personality traits/tendencies/motivations? How
Reach Out!
- lifeisworkpod.com
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