Personality Style for Dummies

A Crash Course in Personality Styles

Personality style is the primary force driving human behavior. Knowing its ins and outs sheds light on just about everything employees do – from how they manage to how they work as part of a team.

Your specific personality style boils down to two fundamental behaviors: assertiveness and expressiveness. These two traits combine in various ways to form the four basic personality styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic.

Discover your team members' unique styles using Personality Style for Dummies. This handy reference guide does the following:

• Introduces the concepts of the four personality styles
• Illustrates how style applies to a wide range of organizational situations
• Shows readers how to spot someone else's personality style
• Offers tips for "flexing" personality styles in any situation

Personality Style for Dummies helps readers:

• Discover and understand one's personality style
• Identify the common characteristics of each personality style
• Learn the benefits and challenges of each personality style
• Understand how to adapt your personality style to interact with others

Roger Pearman is an award-winning subject matter expert on personality, leadership, and performance effectiveness. He is one of the authors of HRDQ’s highly successful Career Roadblocks Finder online assessment. Roger has served as a senior adjunct faculty and coach for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), a highly respected global provider of executive education. His collaborative relationship with the CCL enabled him to use their extensive database to aid his research and author several well-known books, including Hardwired Leadership, I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You, and Leadership Advantage. The founder of Leadership Performance Systems, Inc. and Qualifying.org, Inc., Roger’s clients include the United Nations, Merck, Citigroup, SAP, and the Marriott Corporation.