Know your own personality style and that of others, too. Show your faith through gentleness, versatility & resilience when dealing with people! Your personality reflects how you relate to the social environment around you. Personality profiling systems differ in the name assigned to each style but agree on the adjectives that describe each style’s behavior. Below is an example of the four main personality profiles as labeled by the Wilson Learning Corporation*. In what quadrant of the graph do your personality expressions land? 

 

Some people become so focused on the task at hand, they prefer to dive straight into problem-solving and decision-making so they reach the solution quickly but in their quest, they often times forget to take the time necessary to win others to their way of thinking. Other personality styles can be too focused on the feelings of others so that they spend their time trying to secure the loyalty of each person on the team and lose sight of the goal/accuracy of the project. For example, one goal of a “Driver” is to push through the obstacles (and in the process offend people) to achieve success on the assignment while the goal of an “Amiable” is to save relationships even at the expense of achieving the objective. The goal of an “Analytical” is to be right but to avoid confrontation, while the goal of an “Expressive” is to win people to their way, while being the center of attention.

• *To learn more about being versatile in your personality, see the Wilson Learning website.​