Can the humble Apple unlock the secrets to a conflict & stress free work environment?

1 in 5 workers in Australia have experienced major problems in communication with a co-worker or a boss at work.*  Working with people you just don’t get can be performance-sapping, costly and extremely stressful. 

For many small business, traditional personality and behaviour training programmes are too expensive, time consuming and are often filled with corporate speak that fails to connect across all levels.

New video training programmme – Working With People You Just Don’t Get!, addresses this gap. Developed by renowned behaviour and communications trainer, coach and author, Lynne Schinella, this programme has been developed to meet the specific needs of small businesses. It helps small teams better understand each other, as well as customers and suppliers and how to leverage their differences to work more effectively with less stress and greater productivity.

So where does the humble Apple fit in? Apples and other everyday Fruit – Mangoes, Limes and Bananas are key ingredients in Lynne’s RIPE Personality Profiling System – which forms the foundation of Working With People You Just Don’t Get!.

“There are many established and sophisticated personality profiling systems which have many merits. Although they deliver detailed and lengthy analysis of personality, in today’s increasingly fast-moving workplace I believe that we need a tool that is simple, down to earth and easy to remember.” Explains Lynne.

Lynne created the RIPE Personality Profiling System in 2004 as an alternative option. It draws on the work of many leaders in the field (Carl Jung, Ned Hermann and Katherine Benziger) and has the benefits of being fun, blameless and easy to digest and recall.

“This is where the Fruit come in! We use Fruit to reflect behaviour preferences…. Apples are hardcore and don’t break easily. Mangoes are luscious, sexy messy little things. Limes are concentrated and intense, but not in your face. Bananas are sweet and pliable with many uses!  People really engage with our fruit profiling because it makes the complex simple and relevant.” Says Lynne.

Since developing RIPE, Lynne has trained organisations all over the world on how to work with the strengths and challenges of being an Apple, Mango, Lime or Banana and work more effectively as a team, with huge success. But till now the programme has remained out of reach for small businesses.

“Small business are often really vulnerable when it comes to conflict and stress – things can quickly spiral out of control and unfortunately most have limited resources at their realm. We are very excited to launch Working With People You Just Don’t Get!  We know that it will really speak to small businesses. The programme is cost effective and simple. It cuts through corporate speak and replaces It with blameless language and delivers results – a team that is less stressed and more connected, engaged and productive.”

Working with People You Just Don’t Get!is delivered through a series of videos where Lynne shares a workshop just as if she was there in person, with the whole team in one room. During the workshop, using the RIPE Fruit Profiling System, each team member will become more self and team aware. The videos will trigger discussions to help individual team members better understand their own, as well as their teammates’ strengths and challenges. The workshop will also arm the whole team with tools to improve their connection and communication with others – other team members, clients, suppliers and even their own family and friends.

“Understanding what behaviour preferences each person has and why you get on with them – or not is a light bulb moment for many participants!  They finally ‘get’ why they never ‘got’ on with that other person. It gives them permission to be themselves and encourages transparent and honest conversations. It’s ok not to get on with someone, but there must be respect for each other’s work. And this programme allows for that needed discovery and discussion.

And yes the humble Apple, Mango, Lime and Banana do indeed unlock many secrets of working with people you just don’t get!” Concludes Lynne.

Working with People You Just Don’t Getis available for teams of up to 20 people and costs AUD $1,200 + GST. For more information visit:  

www.lynneschinella.com.au/videotraining-teams

Lynne has also recently released her book: Bite Me and other Do’s and Don’ts of Dealing With Our Differences

About Lynne Schinella

Lynne is a highly regarded behaviour and communications trainer, coach and author who works with individuals and organisations to help them connect with influence and respect. Lynne’s audiences get real value from her practical down to earth approach, her honest, engaging and entertaining delivery and her talent for making the complex simple and relevant. Lynne is the creator of the RIPE Personality Profiling System and lives and breathes Fruit, from mentoring to training teams to deliver her message of respect, connect and thrive. She is also the author of Bite Me! and other do’s and don’ts of dealing with our differences. For more information about Lynne visit www.lynneschinella.com.au

Notes to editor

* 2016 Snapshot of the Australian Workplace 

Interviews  To request an interview with Lynne Schinella please contact Sarika Shah, Publicity and Marketing, SShah PR & Communications email: sshahcommunications@gmail.com or call 0414 291 440.