Understand personality in everyday life

Practical guides to work, communication, relationships, pressure and responsible interpretation of a personality test.

Personality and work: use your strengths well

A test can suggest preferred ways of working, but it cannot decide which career is right for you.

Many communication problems grow from different expectations about pace, detail, directness and participation.

Preferences can help explain why closeness, personal space, plans and conflict are experienced differently.

Stress tends to intensify familiar patterns. They can help in the short term and narrow perspective when they last too long.

Most people express both tendencies. What matters is knowing the conditions in which you restore energy and think clearly.

A good result opens an observation; it does not have the final word on who you are.