Charlene Nensala Communication and Collaboration Strategy

Throughout life, learning is an essential tool to personal development. To learn is to acquire an understanding or skill in something by studying, being taught, or by experience. Who we are as individuals may greatly affect how we learn, therefore each person's learning experience is completely unique from someone else's since no two people are exactly the same. Understanding the differences between personalities can unlock the mystery between different learning styles and vice versa. This paper will identify three different personality types as well as three different learning styles and address strategies to facilitate effective communication and collaboration between them.

Although in Keys to College Studying: Becoming an Active Thinker (Carter, Bishop, & Kravits, 2007, p. 47-48), personalities are categorized into four types: Organizers, Givers, Adventurers, and the Thinkers, this paper will identify mainly the first three. Organizers are planners. They tend to be more disciplined and thus have a higher attention to detail and organization. This also leads them to be more predictable in their methods of thinking and action. Givers are the more sociable personalities. They are very talkative and interpersonal. They tend to be honest and trusting of others as well. Because of their varied interactions with others, they tend to be more adaptable in different situations. Adventurers for the most part, live in the present and thrive on spontaneity and action. They have a zest for life that can be seen in hands on problem solving capabilities. They are quite flexible and adept and negotiating. Between the three, the Organizer, Giver, and Adventurer, the Giver is the balance between the Organizer and the Adventurer. The Organizer is methodical and creates a plan before acting, whereas the Adventurer is more impulsive and builds the plan as events unfold. While the Organizer may be slower to react, the Adventurer's quick response may lead them into...