might have the most influence? Who are the key decision makers and earn their respect in some way. Obviously, there is going to be conflict and a whole that’s other presentation. But clearly, by understanding how it’s the folks in your office tick, even understanding their temperament and personality. going to help you That’s understand how you can work better with them. Which is the last thing that I wanted to talk about, which is that understanding personality or temperament helps us to what we call flex our personalities. And this is from a book called People Styles at Work by Robert Bolton. And he talks about like these four temperaments are sort of the focus or the fulcrum of his book, but it talks about how do we get along with other people in the workplace. And Robert Bolton says that part of it is by understanding other temperament and understanding their people’s personality. We can understand what we can do to kind of make their life a little bit easier. So for example like if going to encounter an idealist in the workplace and you’re say a rational, these are very opposite you’re personalities; the thinking and feeling is a very big difference when it comes to getting along. And so thinkers might have to, you know, walk into a room and maybe engage in sort of ancillary conversation like, are you doing today? How are you “How feeling? What’s going Whereas, idealists might have to when on?” they’re going to meet with the rational and having to they’re
might have the most influence? Who are the key decision makers and earn their respect in some way. Obviously, there is going to be conflict and that’s a whole other presentation. But clearly, it’s by understanding how the folks in your office tick, even understanding their temperament and personality. That’s going to help you understand how you can work better with them. Which is the last thing that I wanted to talk about, which is that understanding personality or temperament helps us to what we call flex our personalities. And this is from a book called People Styles at Work by Robert Bolton. And he talks about like these four temperaments are sort of the focus or the fulcrum of his book, but it talks about how do we get along with other people in the workplace. And Robert Bolton says that part of it is by understanding other people’s temperament and understanding their personality. We can understand what we can do to kind of make their life a little bit easier. So for example like if you’re going to encounter an idealist in the workplace and say you’re a rational, these are very opposite personalities; the thinking and feeling is a very big difference when it comes to getting along. And so thinkers might have to, you know, walk into a room and maybe engage in sort of ancillary conversation like, “How are you doing today? How are you feeling? What’s going on?” Whereas, idealists might have to when they’re going to meet with the rational and they’re having to
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