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Over 30 Marines from the U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command, Marine Raider Support Group’s motor transportation unit attended a Four Lenses Temperament Discovery class hosted locally by Marine Corps Community Services, at Stone Bay, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug. 18, 2017.
Ken Lewis, an employee with MCCS and retired Navy chaplain, provided MRSG’s motor transport Marines with a 2-hour class on understanding the four main communication styles in their personal and professional lives.
“The point of this class is discovering your personality preferences and learning to understand people,” said Lewis a certified Four Lenses instructor.
Attending a Four Lenses class helps people learn and understand different communication and personality styles through instructional discussions and an interactive Peer 2 Peer workshop. This teaches attendees to better work with and understand the people around them.
The Marines completed assessments that helped them determine their own personality and communication styles through the Four Lenses Temperament Discovery assessment and activities, as well as that of their co-workers’. The assessment consists of 3-steps: first putting groups of photos in order from which you like the most to least; the second step was to do the same with descriptions of personalities and character traits; and the third step a series of questions.
When the values are totaled, with a predesigned formula in the handbook, it gave the Marines their prospective Four Lenses color, and provided them with a description of what their color means and personality traits normally associated with their color.
“[My goal was to give them] an understanding of relationships, both professional and personal, and to understand that there’s other perspectives other than theirs,” said MRSG’s motor transportation operations chief.
After doing the course himself, the motor transport chief hoped the class would be beneficial to his Marines by giving them new resources to better themselves and their peers throughout their careers and in life. He stated being part of a unit and a good leader means working on unit cohesion and communicating with each other, and he wanted to give his Marines the opportunity to do so.
The workshops are offered periodically throughout the year by MCCS. Units can schedule to have a class for their service members, family members, and attached civilian personnel by contacting their Family Readiness Officer, Peer 2 Peer coordinator or command staff. Class sizes vary depending on the unit, with usually one instructor per every 25 people. For more information regarding Four Lenses you can contact MARSOC’s Peer 2 Peer at 910-440-1575 or Camp Lejeune’s MCCS at 910-451-0176.
| Date Taken: | 08.18.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 08.23.2017 16:51 |
| Story ID: | 245758 |
| Location: | CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, US |
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