Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types in Organizations: Understanding Personality Differences in the Workplace

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The Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types in Organizations is written by leading experts in the theory of personality type and its applications. This booklet helps you develop your personal effectiveness within the workplace by providing two full pages of information about each of the sixteen personality types under the topics of Problem Solving, Leadership, Creativity, Teams, Stress, Learning, Career Mastery, and Personal Development. Also included is an appendix that will help you understand the eight MTR-i team roles.

The first page of each description includes information on understanding the specific personality type to help you shift perspectives to improve your relationships with others. The second page includes information on being that personality type to help you further your understanding of yourself. This format makes this booklet essential for employees in any organization who want to understand themselves better and work with others more effectively.

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It is a very good reference.......2007-03-21

This is a small book that goes to the point, It have a section for each type of personality that have a small description of it, the way that they solve problems, their style of leadership, their creative expression, how do they work on teams, how the have to deal with stress, how they learn, and tips for personal growth. Also in the later chapters, this book have two pages that describes the team roles that each personality prefers.

Tools Tools Tools.......2007-03-13

This is terrific if you have any desire to learn the personality types around you.
Take a break from guessing... give yourself a tool.

Geared to the work environment.......2007-02-13

Not a big book, but large on the value that it brings to the workplace. Highly recommended and well worth its cost.

Great Tool for Myers-Briggs.......2007-01-06

I am a certified instructor for Myers-Briggs and have read many of these books about type. This one has it all! It's easy to use as a reference and practical. I reccommend it to anyone who uses Myers-Briggs at work.

A must for employers.......2006-07-09

If your an employer looking to improve your hiring decisions this book, along with the related test as "keirsey.com", is for you. The Quick Guide along with the Keirsey online test will provide quick and accurate insights about potential hires. Now even small businesses can have the type of beneficial info once available only to larger businesses. The book will also help you to have a better understanding of yourself and those around you.

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A fine overview of the dynamics of interpersonal leadership.

Effective Coaching
Marshall J. Cook
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0070718644

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Research proves that employees will work harder and produce more when they feel appreciated, valued, and understood. Easier said than done?

Effective Coaching explains how you can:
Apply good coaching methods in the workplace;
Quickly establish the discipline you need in a cooperative, non-threatening atmosphere
Instinctively use effective problem solving strategies in every situation

You know your company needs its employees. Make sure they know that. Management strategies and techniques presented in Effective Coaching will help you dramatically improve employee performance, and maximize the measurable value received from each employee.

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A fine overview of the dynamics of interpersonal leadership........1999-04-03

After reading the book Effective Coaching, by Marshall J. Cook, I now have some helpful insights about the role of coaching. I initially wanted to see how closely the role of coach and mentor was, and decided to see if this could help make that distinction. As I soon discovered the many hats that coaches wear, I began to see that all the "hats" started to look very similar. Coaching and mentoring are similarly focused disciplines.

Coaching is not about control; it is empowerment, and leading by example. The role of coach is very dynamic. Many good intentions drive a coach to reach the learner, and depending on what situations are presented, the coach must be prepared and skilled to handle it. This book illustrates effective coaching techniques through the use of various scenarios.

The chapters are organized into sub groups of the different roles a coach can be. "As a coach, you must be problem solver, trainer, teacher, mentor and corrector." Some of the skills covered are good questioning, being a good listener, problem solving, addressing change, overcoming obstacles, and valuable communication strategies. Plus bonus principles for good coaching and good living. All chapters have smart management tips that incorporate these skills to help you avoid potential real-life roadblocks and to put you into the Coach's and learner's perspectives.

Throughout the book, the margins have helpful keys to the terms and the author has flavored each chapter with cases that relate to the chapter's theme. I enjoyed the voice the author used to express himself in each chapter. You find yourself quickly acknowledging the main points that are introduced. Each chapter concludes with a coach's checklist where all the pertinent points are restated. This is a book that I have underlined and highlighted for future reference.

Coaching and Mentoring Skills (NetEffect Series) (NetEffect Series)
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Coaching and Mentoring Skills (NetEffect Series) (NetEffect Series)
Andrew J. DuBrin
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0130922226

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This practical, hands-on book covers twelve key areas of skill development that enable today's learners to become effective coaches and mentors of tomorrow. It contains useful and serious advice - based on research, theory, and practice - encouraging innovation, improvement, and the type of individual contributions that create an environment of corporate success and continuous learning. Chapter topics include building trust, showing empathy, active listening, using influence tactics, helping others set goals, monitoring performance, giving feedback, encouraging positive actions, discouraging negative actions, training team members, helping others solve problems, helping difficult people, and developing protégés. For team players - especially those in corporate settings - who want to become leaders, supervisors, and mentors.

Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create a Positive Working Environment

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Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create a Positive Working Environment
Pauline Peyton
Manufacturer: Routledge
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The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job

ASIN: 1583912371

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Bullying in the workplace is now a recognized problem, and a cause for major concern. Victims stand to lose their self-esteem, their health and even their careers. Organizations that do not endeavor to put an end to this behavior lose productivity, profits and their good reputations.

Dignity at Work, is derived from the author's many years of experience working with organizations of all sizes and at all levels. This book outlines practical guidelines essential to organizations that want to combat bullying in the workplace, and psychologists and professional counselors working with those organizations. It provides tools to: identify bullying behavior, create new policies within corporate culture, intervene practically therapeutically, and transfer skills from mental health practice settings to organizations.
This book provides managers, human resource staff and professional counselors with the skills required to be able to recognize when a problem exists, and deal with it effectively.

Quick Skills: Workplace Politics and Personalities (Quick Skills)

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Quick Skills: Workplace Politics and Personalities (Quick Skills)
Doris Humphrey
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub
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ASIN: 0538432209

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This skill-focused book is designed for quick professional skill development. Workplace Politics and Personalities provides the reader with solid information on working with others as well as on handling corporate change.Other topics discussed include politically correct behaviors, key performance and how workplace politics affects one's career. Whether experienced professional, thinking of re-entering the workforce or learning about careers, this book will prove to be the perfect reference.

Action Dialogues: Meaningful Conversations to Accelerate Change (Diversity Breakthrough! Strategic Action Series) (Advances in Developing Human Resources)

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Fun tool that really gets people talking!
So much more than a book!
Let's Get to Work!
Debbe Kennedy continues producing tools that work!

Action Dialogues: Meaningful Conversations to Accelerate Change (Diversity Breakthrough! Strategic Action Series) (Advances in Developing Human Resources)
Debbe Kennedy
Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Meant to be used optimally as a part of Debbe Kennedy's Diversity Breakthrough! Strategic Action series, this is a simple pack of 52 glossy cards, each isolating specific roadblocks that organizations commonly face when looking to launch a diversity initiative. The first, for example, reads, "Our leadership team does not reflect our stated commitment to inclusion." Another reads, "Resistance to change keeps diversity out of reach."

Grouped into seven areas--leadership, culture, involvement, the business, strategies and measures, staffing, and ownership--they can be passed out in groups of any size to allow participants to literally "put their cards on the table" about internal issues they'd rather not bring up aloud. (And, yes, they do come with a brief but useful user's guide with a foreword by the Drucker Foundation's Frances Hesselbein.) They're not only a brilliant icebreaker for this potent topic but a good first step toward isolating specific areas of strength and weakness within an organization when it comes to diversity.

The cards can be used alone or in conjunction with the six booklets in the Strategic Action series, each of which focuses on a crucial phase in what author Kennedy, a veteran consultant and a former manager of Equal Opportunity and human resources at IBM, calls the "imperfect circle" of change: "Assessment," "Acceptance," "Action," "Accountability," "Achievement," and--you guessed it--"More Action." Each booklet comes with self-assessment tools, concrete action strategies to mobilize change, fun and quick action-planning worksheets, and firsthand accounts from leaders at an impressive variety of organizations, from big companies to small nonprofits, that explains how they met the challenge of walking-the-talk with diversity. Each concise, 64-page booklet is as adaptable to an organization-wide initiative or a small group effort as it is to a single individual's nighttime reading and enrichment (where organizational change, after all, often begins).

Managers, consultants, and trainers can use these Action Dialogue cards independently as an assessment tool before launching a diversity initiative or in conjunction with the Strategic Action booklets as add-ons. The cards are really the touchstone in a highly integrated program that demystifies diversity management and accords it the seriousness it deserves. --Timothy Murphy

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This boxed-for-travel set is a complete toolkit to help you conduct three distinctive "action dialogues" about diversity and inclusion in your organization whenever the need or opportunity arises. It comes with an inspiring and informative book with easy-to-follow, step-by-step processes you can learn in a few minutes. It also has its own innovative problem identification diagnostic card pack that will help you pinpoint and name issues and facilitate conversations around the often sensitive and tough issues associated with creating a diverse, inclusive environment. Issue themes cross seven key areas of organizational influence: Leadership, Culture, Involvement, The Business, Strategies and Measures, Staffing and Development and Ownership. The action dialogue framework guides you through an exploration of what is working, what is standing in the way and next steps to begin finding resolution. Designed for your own personal explorations and self-assessments, one-on-one conversations or small group dialogues. Action Dialogues is a ready-made tool to help foster manager/employee communications and understanding, acceptance and ownership for creating more welcoming workplaces, productive organizations, profitable businesses and healthier communities positioned to respond to the opportunities of the 21st Century. Two color format, over 60 illustrations to bring issues to life. Designed for anyone with the responsibility of setting an example and leading change in your organization.

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Fun tool that really gets people talking!.......2000-02-13

Great tool! The cards really work to help people talk about inclusivity and the issues that people don't want to say out loud in a group. I was surprised how fast people really got into it. The book has a very simple process to follow. Later, I used it myself and almost had fun figuring out what is wrong with our business environment.

So much more than a book!.......2000-02-08

Debbe Kennedy's newly released "Action Dialogues" is a BREAKTHROUGH in and of itself. I say this because I feel that Debbe has broken new ground and is helping to shape the future of how we will use books as tools, not just as repositories of ideas. It is so much more than a book. It is a Tool, Reference, a source of Inspiration and a Catalyst for change in organizations, not to mention that the process laid out is customizable, flexible, accessible, fun and action-oriented. The cards themselves are amazing - they convey the spirit of diversity and inclusion through their simple design and powerful use of graphics and quotes. The categories(leadership, culture, involvement, staffing & development, strategies & measures and business) listed on the bottom corner of each card let you perform a quick assessment of where the balance of your issues reside. My initial use of the tool confirmed my gut-feel --- and helped me craft the key message that I wanted to share with our leadership team. I was able to communicate what was working, what wasn't working and what we could do about it!

When I first opened the box and began working with the book and the companion card deck, I instantly felt empowered to take action. I have now used "Action Dialogues" to prepare for and execute a dialogue with a small group of leaders focused on a key culture change project. In addition to testing this powerful new tool in the corporate setting, I have also found it to be a great way to open conversations in both non-profit and public sector environments. In one instance, a particular card and the associated issu and quote really hit a nerve with a collegue who works for a city in Northern California. We used that one issue to build around it a focused dialogue session. There are no complex theories that need to be grasped or detailed preparation. If you have a issue that needs to be discussed and you have been putting it off because you don't feel comfortable facilitating the necessary dialogue - don't wait. Buy this book. It will take you by the hand and show you step by step how to be successful and get busy changing the world!

Let's Get to Work!.......2000-02-02

You don't need more meetings or brainstorming sessions to identify what needs to be done and what the issues are. Leaders of the future need to enable themselves and their teams to work successfully among people with differences. Debbe Kennedy has heard it all, collected the best ideas and solutions, and has prepared this easy to use and understand tool kit. It allows you to get to work, start talking and build a deeper understanding of people. Most managers and human resource professionals do not know how to tackle the subject of diversity and inclusion and let their own sensitivities and lack of knowledge and experience get in the way. The Action Dialogues will more than get you started and keep you talking and thinking and doing.

Debbe Kennedy continues producing tools that work!.......2000-01-24

I found this tool -- not just a book -- to be useful far beyond bringing diversity and leadership to the workplace. The structure is straightforward. The knowledge and process to unlock talent in my company got my interest. The results made me a believer. Leadership is demonstrated from a diversity of perspectives. Thank God for authors and leaders like Debbe Kennedy, Joel Barker and Francis Husselbein for cutting through the rhetoric and giving us real help.

Workplace Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Management

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Workplace Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Management

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Respond quickly and effectively to workplace trauma

For years, employee assistance programs have been providing critical incidence stress management services to employees who have been involved in, or witness to, workplace fatalities and accidents that are likely to traumatize workers and affect quality of work and increase sick leave and health claims. Workplace Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Management presents successful strategies for rapid response to episodes of workplace violence, natural disasters, and acts of terrorism that have become all-too-common occurrences in the workplace.

Workplace Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Management is a must read for professionals in the business of providing crisis response services and for employers responsible for planning and coordinating organizational responses to disasters. This unique book presents first-hand accounts from EAP program managers, Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) professionals, and crisis managers on their trauma response techniques and from health professionals involved in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon.

Workplace Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Management examines:

similar and dissimilar experiences of EAP professionals in responding to large scale traumatic events
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Workplace Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Management also includes Bern Beidel's first-person account as EAP Director for the United States House of Representatives of the response to anthrax contamination in mailrooms and office buildings in the nation's capital.

Coping With Workplace Change: Dealing With Loss and Grief (A Fifty-Minute Series Book)

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Coping With Workplace Change: Dealing With Loss and Grief (A Fifty-Minute Series Book)
J. Shep Jeffreys , and J. Shep Jeffries
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Math For The Trades (Workplace Skills and Career Tools)

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Math For The Trades (Workplace Skills and Career Tools)
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This book serves readers who want to assess and improve the math skills they need to succeed at work. A complete review of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and word problems ensures improvement of these essential math skills. With over 200 on-the-job practice questions, it is a necessary tool for employees who need math skills to complete their jobs with ease.

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Great find.......2004-12-02

I have always had a hard time with math, but this book helped me to understand problems that were hard for me. It has helped me in my job. There were lots of good examples with explanations of how to do them.

The Art of Workplace English: A Curriculum for All Students

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The Art of Workplace English: A Curriculum for All Students
Carolyn R Boiarsky
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ASIN: 0867094265

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By the year 2000, more than 70 percent of the jobs in this country will require no more than a high school degree. But they will also demand a higher level of skill directly applicable to the workplace. The problem is that few teachers are familiar with the genres of workplace literature or with the audience and contexts in which they are used. This book provides a much-needed solution.

The Art of Workplace English blends theory and practice to present a picture of how workplace English can be integrated within a traditional English curriculum to create a lively, challenging, and satisfying experience for both teachers and students. Readers will discover how to teach the literacy skills students need in the workplace and learn more about the relationship between these skills and those of traditional literary and composition studies. Boiarksy looks at the kinds of jobs students will be expected to hold and demonstrates how communication skills are applied in these jobs.

Rather than replacing the present English curriculum, The Art of Workplace English recommends expanding it. According to the author, students should learn to read and write not only short stories, poems, and plays, but also proposals, position papers, and patent applications. They should learn to read, understand, interpret, and evaluate information in an occupational field as well as communicate information about the field. While students must still learn to write persuasively, develop a coherent text, and meet usage and mechanical standards, this book can help you show them how the grammar they're learning, the literature they're reading, and the papers they're writing relate to the real world.

While grounding the discussion in a theoretical framework, The Art of Workplace English is above all a practical resource, providing a wealth of suggestions for classroom activities, lessons, and assignments as well as suggestions for developing a curriculum relevant to the particular needs and resources of a community and industry.

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