Are you amplifying intellectual diversity in your workplace? Learn how you can strengthen your organization’s performance by understanding how each team member makes decisions and leveraging the value of varied perspectives.

In this episode, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn ’91, adjunct professor in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and author of Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence & Conviction, applies her five Problem Solver Profiles to team dynamics, offering tips for reducing friction and streamlining decision-making along the way.

Tune in to explore:

• The five Problem Solver Profiles: Adventurer, Detective, Listener, Thinker, Visionary
• Relationships between different profiles
• Common problems on teams, including lack of clarity, trust issues, personality conflicts, internal competition and uneven distribution of workload
• Complementary profiles and accelerated bias on homogenous teams
• Tools for alignment on teams
• “Situationality” and how profiles can change over time

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