Putting the KAI in Team: Understanding Work Styles to Promote Effective Advocacy

Our February 2024 webinar helps you understand work styles in order to be more effective as a team.

Being an effective advocate means being a team player. In amplifying organizational messages, sharing community stories, promoting research findings, and numerous other aspects of our work, we need to be on the same page as the rest of our team.

At Stories Change Power, we talk about the critical need for collaboration as "singing our parts from the same choir sheet." Just as our roles on a team are all a bit different, so too are our preferred ways of getting things done. From how we organize our space to the way we solve complex problems, people vary in work styles and approaches.

For example, your research and policy teams may gravitate toward rules and routines, while you prefer to work without boundaries - or perhaps the nature of your job responsibilities makes your day more fluid than the rest of your organization?

Understanding differences - and your own innate preference - in working and problem-solving styles is a vital step toward achieving your team's advocacy goals. Kirton's Adaption Innovation Inventory (the KAI) measures those preferences and supports your professional development (and comes in handy in your personal life, too!).

In this video, leadership, management, and organizational expert, Anne Collier, shares how the KAI and understanding the scale between "Most Adaptive" and "Most Innovative" supports an environment where you and your team can create a just and peaceful world where everyone can thrive - no exceptions.