[Rurcextedutty]

My beloved has been involved in a number of these tests and awareness training through the corporation he works for. I did one also and found it quite insightful.

Sure they are not perfect, but the basic idea that people have different personalities, different motivations and respond better to different types of feedback is critical knowledge for any manager of people. Knowing how to get the best out of team members can make everyone's life better and get better productivity/creativity results.

Eg a manager may like to give very specific feedback everyday. Some people will respond well to that (and like a bit of praise every day) others just want to be left alone with their work and catch up with the boss once a week.

Others might be happy to have a meeting and set some actions on the spot. Others might like to go away and have a think about it and then set an action.

Recognising how people/your team work/s is important and fascinating!

I read this poster "how to care for introverts" this morning, on this most excellent blog (Eric Barker reads a lot of social research papers and distils the results): http://www.bakadesuyo.com/are-top-ex...-be-introverts

Finally, any relationship would be better if people understood another's personality better. Over time we learn these things ourselves, but it would help if we were taught more about this at school I reckon. I think people would end up more accepting of different personality types and there would be less conflict.