Great book on Personality Types
Group: Personality Type Training Group (The colors)
Read More: Finding your personaly can be a very rewarding experience and there are a lot of books out there on Personality tyes, so I wanted to suggest one that I found to be pretty accurate in helping you find your personalit type, explaining the 16 different typs, and how they relate to the working world. The book is based on thepersonality type research conducted by Carl Jung, Katharine C. Briggs, and Isabel Briggs-Myers.
"Do What You Are" is a great book, it helped me and I think it can help you too.
http://www.amazon.com/What-You-Are-Personality-Type-Revised/dp/0316880655
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Since I learned the Colors
MY Life is much easier. I am a Blue and if you want help finding out what color you are Please Call me. 207 592 5524. Juanita Waterman I can help
If you have questions about the colors this is the place to post them and we can keep each other in the know. Juanita Waterman
Interesting sounding book
I'll definitely look into purchasing the book. Thanks for the recommendation!
Books about personalities types
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Rich,
I agree. Information on the personalities is useful for everyone, especially for active team builders.
There are many ways to describe the various personalities. While the Myers-Briggs model is thorough and it's great for scientific research, in my opinion, it's a bit unwieldy for day-to-day application. The 16 types discussed by M-B can be boiled down to 4 basic types. In my experience, the basic four are much easier to learn, to apply, and to duplicate through your team.
The color model is common among network marketers and there are several good sources of material explaining it (Michael Dlouhy, Big Al, Marc Acceta). This is the model I incorporated into my book simply because it's so popular.
Another great model is DISC. It was developed by Marston, but Dr. Robert Rohm offers two fantastic books on the subject, Positive Personality Profiles, and Sponsor With Style. Rohm is a huge fan of network marketing and some of his material is geared specifically for our business. For years, DISC was the only model I taught. Rohm makes it simple. Really good stuff.
Another model that some people prefer, is the Greek classical model. This is where it all started for me. Florence Littauer's book Personality Plus is an extremely humorous explanation of the four basic types. The terminology of the model is more cumbersome for some people, but she makes it so much fun with actual examples from her life, that you can't help but learn.
All of these three discuss the same four basic types. There is a one-to-one correlation between each of the types from all three models. If you know one, you know them all. They are simply different ways of talking about the same information. In fact, when my wife and I discuss our kids or maybe a new team member, we frequently mix the three terminologies within the same conversation.
Bottom line: pick a model you like and that's easy to teach. Then internalize it.
Knock 'em alive,
Russ