This document provides an introduction to a course on project communication management. It introduces the instructor, Mohammad Tawfik, including his qualifications and awards. It outlines the intended learning outcomes of the course, which include distinguishing personality types, building trust and persuasion, effective presentations, and techniques for effective leadership and changing team culture. The document also provides the course schedule and introduces the DISC model of personality types, describing the four types: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance. Homework for the first week is also noted.
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Lecture 1
Introduction and Personality Types
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2. Your Speaker
• Mohammad Tawfik
• Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering,
Cairo University
• BSc., Aerospace Engineering, Cairo University
• Diploma, Computer Science, Cairo University
• MSc., Aerospce Engineering, Old Dominion U.
• Meng, Mechanical Engineering, U. Maryland
• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, U. Maryland
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3. Your Speaker
• National Encouragement Award 2008,
Egypt, awarded June 2009.
• Who’s Who in the World, 2010.
• Outstanding Lecturer Award, German
University in Cairo, October 2006.
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5. Course ILO’s
By the end of this course, the attendant will be able to:
• Distinguish between different character types
• Identify best approach technique for different
personalities
• Apply techniques for building trust and persuasion
with coworkers, suppliers, and managers
• Build and deliver effective presentations
• Apply techniques of effective leadership
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6. Course ILO’s
By the end of this course, the attendant will be able to:
• Identify key habits that result in ineffective
performance
• Apply innovative techniques to changing team
culture
• Negotiate effectively in different project settings
• Deliver messages in an effective form
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15. The DISC Model
• The DISC Personality System is the universal
language of behaviour.
• Behavioural characteristics can be grouped
together in four major divisions
• People with similar personality profiles styles
tend to exhibit specific behavioural
characteristics
• All people share these four styles in varying
degrees of intensity.
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16. The DISC Model
The acronym DISC stands for the four
personality styles represented by the
letters:
• D (Drive)
• I (Influence)
• S (Steadiness)
• C (Compliance)
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