Personality Types Among Us

Does your cube-mate seem to be speaking a language you don't understand? Is your boss impossible to get along with? Are you having a hard time motivating one of your employees? Is your spouse from another galaxy? The key could be their personality and yours don't mesh. This course will explore personality theories and allow you to discover your own personality and how that affects the way you think and work. You will also explore how other personalities think and work and some communication and motivational tools you can use to be able to work better with them.

Lesson 1: Personality Types

In this lesson we will take a quick tour of some of the more popular theories of categorizing how people think, act and learn. Many of these theories are more strongly related to learning styles and have been used to improve teaching and learning practices, but you can easily see how these can be applied to business and social situations as well.