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June 10, 2019

A Golden Tool for Precepting

In this short 5-minute video, I discuss how Personality Styles (Driver, Analytical, Amiable, and Expressive) can be useful information when planning precepted experiences for health sciences students.  Below the video is a short summary of each style.  Thanks to Mayumi Willgerodt and Megan Miller for the fun idea!

CHSIE-RP Interprofessional Preceptor Toolkit

Drivers tend to:

  • Be forceful & quick in making decisions
  • Flourish in a goal-orientated meeting
  • Expect others to respond in a timely manner

Analytics tend to:

  • Value conservative & practical business decisions
  • Rely on structured approach & factual evidence
  • Prefer a systematic approach to coming to a recommendation 

Amiables tend to:

  • Value cooperation in business situations
  • Rely on the support of others in shared-decision making
  • Prefer an interactive approach to problem-solving

Expressives tend to:

  • Be futuristic in their thinking
  • Attempt to make others enthusiastic about ideas

Prefer a collaborative approach to problem solving