How’s your professional work life going? Do you have a fine grasp on how best to get stuff done, how best to work with other people, and how best to ensure your future is truly in your own control? Chances are you’re like most people out there and could maybe use a little help here and there.
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Our personalities are some of the most telling and focusing tools we ever use in life, especially in our jobs. How we handle the tough times, the busy times, and the really, really slow times can say a lot about how much we really know about ourselves. Spending a few minutes diving deeper into our personalities can make a world of difference and I think most people recognize this fact.
I created a survey and polled several hundred people about personalities and how this interesting topic affects their lives. What follows is their raw, personal, and highly enlightening experiences, opinions, and feelings. I did clean up the language a bit where it was needed, but the survey results here are about as blunt as can be. I’m hoping they’ll help you see just how important personality is in your life.
Survey Question:
How could finding out more about your personality help you at work?
Survey Answers:
- Understanding my personality better could help me professionally because I could zero in on aspects that hinder my success. Like being too caught up in piddly details that slow my work down. This way I could be more efficient with my time at work.
- Knowing more about my personality would allow me to work more efficiently. I would know what it takes for me to learn, and therefore learn more than I would otherwise. I would also be able to tell what motivates me best and design a personal reward system accordingly.
- It would allow me to change interactions with people. Working with clients could be improved, as well. Also, if I’m a more pleasant person, it might be easier to advance in the company.
- I work in a half-way house as a counselor. We have eight residents who are recovering alcoholics/drug addicts. By concentrating on the positives of my personality, it makes me a better counselor. By trying to keep my negative traits out of the work place, I make things more comfortable for the residents and the staff.I have had to admit to myself that I am more judgmental than I had thought. With this knowledge, when I interact with a resident, I can be extra careful about being judgmental. Also, sometimes I get frustrated with a resident. When this happens, I am often being judgmental in the sense that I am forgetting about his/her issues.
- Finding out more about my personality can help me in work by many was like, in which things I am interested, what I can do perfectly and what I enjoy doing etc.
- It would allow me to find a better fitting job. I made the mistake of taking a lead position. It was a nightmare. Deep down, I kind of knew I made a bad choice but maybe if I had concrete personality data, I would have avoided that situation. I am better off as a worker bee.
- I’m in a high stress job at work, and I don’t think my personality matches this. Finding out more about my personality could help give me the encouragement to change jobs, and make me less stressed. Being less stressed would help my health, and help my relationships to others. I could also find how I can change the way I work to fit my personality better. Life could be much smoother.
- Knowing my personality could help me become a productive worker. I would know what I need to do, how I need to complete a task, and when to complete a task. It would also help others to know what kind of role they need to play into my work in order for me to be successful and them too.
- It helps me getting around inter-personal relationship at work. For example, if I know I will work well in a certain project or with a certain group, I will try my best to get myself in the group. Furthermore, it tells me whether the job suites me or not.
- It would be helpful to expose areas that I may not be aware of, and then I could work on them. It would also be educational to know how I am perceived by others. For example, if I learn I am prone to being too introverted or I come across as being aloof and think I am better than my co-workers, I would want to change that if I could.
- When in a work environment there is a level of professional that you have to maintain. Sometimes this can come off as stuck up or anti-social. Learning how to bridge being friendly and professional would be beneficial.
- Knowing my personality type has helped me to find the types of work I enjoy and avoid the types of work that tends to stress me out. For example, being an introvert, I dislike dealing with people and absolutely loathe talking on the phone.That rules out customer service, call center work, and such. On the other hand, I am good with words, I am bilingual, and I like working on the computer. So any kind of desk job where I can be by myself, using my skills, is a good fit for me that would be enjoyable.
- You would know how to interact with people much better. This would lead to a better output of job performance. It would also enhance your friendships and relationships within your office.
- I understand that I am a hard working person which helps me at work. I tend to be very meticulous which assists me with my work. Also, I am very sociable which allows me to work well with other people.
- Your personality tells a lot about your learning style as well as how you are best mentored. For example, I’m not a very sentimental person. I don’t need a lot of positive feedback in public forums, but I do need a nod here and there.Knowing how I best thrive in the workplace is helpful to my boss. Also my personality is such that I like more challenging tasks, so to keep me happy, mundane everyday work is not for me. The more he knows, the better he is able to retain top talent.
- It could help me by realizing my strengths and weaknesses of my personality. If I can somehow find out how to win people over at work by acting differently it would benefit me. I don’t know how moral that would be but I could learn how to better handle situations with certain people.
- Knowing my personality better will help me complete my job duties and enhance my job performance a great deal, ideally pushing my career forward. It would help me deal with customers and employees by better understanding their needs as well as my own. I believe that understanding myself will not only assist me as a person but the benefits would be passed on to my co-workers as well.
- It would help me know how to function around difficult people. It would show me areas that I need to improve in in the job itself like in meeting deadlines and being a team player just to name a couple of ways. If you are a kind of a loner, then you need to work on interacting with your coworkers otherwise they may label you as a nut that would bring harm to people. This is the truth.
- If I understood my bad habits I could do more to consciously avoid them. I would like to avoid my weaknesses to become more efficient. By understanding my personality I can use it to my advantage and eventually move up!
- It could give me tools and ideas that would help motivate me. I might understand better what types of things might be triggers for me, like criticism, and therefore teach myself not to be so reactive to criticism. It could help me to realize that certain mediums might help me with my creativity and my ability to grasp things more than other types of mediums–that perhaps visual aids work best for people with certain aspects of my personality type.I might find that I now understand why I do certain things, and therefore, I might be able to modify my behaviors more positively. Perhaps, if I have a shy personality, I also learn that this type works better in one-on-one situations than in group settings, then I can try to create more one-on-one settings in my work.I might learn that my type is able to grasp spatial relations, but not have strong verbal skills, or linear ways of thinking. Then I can apply myself more to roles that use spatial skills, et cetera.
- When discovering the different facets to my personality it allows me to put my best foot forward in the workplace. I am able to ensure the jobs that I apply for will be jobs that I am keenly interested in and will make more effort in learning and attempting new goals. My personality also determines strength and weakness in my job personally so I can concentrate more efforts to improve my performance in weak areas of job skills.
- I think, first off, that it would help me find a job for which I am best suited. Wouldn’t to be in customer service forever if I am an introvert. But it would also help me (and my employer) understand how I can succeed or why I am succeeding.
- Knowing my shortcomings allows me to work with my boss in bettering my position in the company. By doing things I know I’m good at and what won’t frustrate me to no end, I’m a better asset to the company and more efficient.If I had no idea about the things that bug me so much, then I would constantly be put in a position doing work I wasn’t very good at. By knowing where my strong suits are, I’m able to complete the tasks ahead of me more easily and thus getting more work done in the time allotted to me.
- Knowing more about my personality would come in very handy at work. I would be able to identify which tasks will be the most enjoyable for me and which ones I will be the best at. I’d also know how I work with other people and might be able to improve my interactions with co-workers.
- I imagine it would help to clarify exactly what the strength and weakness of my personality actually are. We all have an idea about what are strengths and weaknesses are, but we are all also quite good at deluding ourselves. Maybe I’m not as understanding as I think I am, and if a personality test tells me I need to work on that it would give me motivation to do so.
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How do you think you can apply these personal insights into the personalities and opinions of other folks out there just like you? Please share your thoughts below.
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