Write a personal reflection report using the three dimensions
outlined below, identifying how these dimensions have influenced your management style. Use the following
topics to frame your report:
I. Your True Colour (USE BLUE AS TRUE COLOUR)
– Describe ‘colour conflicts’ you’ve encountered with people in your past and current life: work colleagues, supervisors, customers, family, relationships, or your other event group members – note other ‘opposing colour’ personality characteristic.
-Describe the coping mechanisms you will use to resolve conflict (and / or avoid conflict from the get-go).
– Refer to ‘Succeeding with Different Types’ (on the second last page in the ‘Colours -Full Package’
II. Your communication style (USE AMIABLE AS COMMUNICATION STYLE)
– Describe communication conflicts you have encountered in your past and current life with work colleagues, supervisors, customers, family, or other personal relationships.
– Describe how you would adjust your communication style to better manage conflicts resulting from people
possessing your ‘polar quadrant opposite’ communication style in the following scenarios:
With your superior at work (Boss)
With a customer
With a work colleague
With an employee and a volunteer – reporting to you.
III. Your cultural background (COMPARE THAILAND AND CANADA) and the influence of Hofstede’s 4 dimensions of culture (Power Distance, Individualism, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity).
– Describe your cultural roots back three generations (country where your parents, grandparents and or great grandparents claim as ‘their heritage’).
– Juxtapose (compare) your cultural heritage in relation to Hofstede’s Canadian dimensions using Hofstede’s tool ( – identify any prevailing differences.
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– Describe how culture has influenced both your social and management styles
