Workplace Strategies for Maximizing Individual and Team Performance

Are we pre-wired? How do biological differences and environment explain how we behave and how we interact with others? Find out what the current research tells us about introverted and extraverted personality types. Experts will present techniques for improving communication between introverts and extraverts that draw out the strengths of people of both types to enhance individual performance and capitalize on the diversity of personalities we encounter in group activities.

8:30 a.m. Welcome

8:40 a.m. Extraverts and Introverts: Who they are, what they do, and why it matters
Robert Tett, Ph.D. University of Tulsa

9:25 a.m. Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Insights into Personality, Emotion Regulation, and Cognitive Style
Wendy Heller, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:30 a.m. Extraversion in monkeys: How a “tendency to affiliate” is associated with brain and immune function, coping, and health
John Capitanio, Ph.D. University of California, Davis

11:15 a.m. Only the Outgoing Want In
L. Alan Witt, Ph.D. University of Houston

12:00 p.m. Panel Discussion with Q&A

Committee Members:

Chair: Lisa Moeller

Members: Tom Hilton, Blaine Moore, Claudia Moy, Vishnudutt Purohit, Phillip Wiethorn

For more information, visit
http://odoerdb2-1.od.nih.gov/oer/training/step/step_training_20080313.htm