

It’s fairly short - about 160 pages - and it takes many of the very complex personality types and reduces them into four principal types. The book, The Delicate Art Of Dancing With Porcupines: Learning To Appreciate The Finer Points Of Others, is easy to read, and it presents the personality types in a way that makes a lot of sense. So I invite you to spend a little time looking at one author’s ideas on the various personality types so you have a little more insight into dealing effectively with them.īob Phillips, a licensed marriage, family and child therapist, published a book in 1989 about the various personality types that all of us encounter in life, the strengths and weaknesses of each, and how best to communicate with them.

You didn’t get to this point in your career without picking up some skills at getting along well with others ( click here to tweet this thought). In the first post of this series, we looked briefly at the industry that has become a mainstay for helping organizations identify, manage and recruit their employees more effectively” the personality assessment.
