What’s Your Conflict Style?
In my last blog I gave tips on how to defuse and deal with conflict. This week I am looking at the different ways individuals react to conflict. …
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Category Archives for "Personality styles"
How to help yourself through #lockdown
When we interact with others, we get stressed by different things. Last week’s tips were how to help your housemates cope with #forcedtogetherness. This week it’s about how you can help yourself to manage the stress of so much time at home – with or without others.
Continue readingCoping with forced togetherness
Two weeks into #socialdistancing and there’s a lot of good advice around on how to cope with #socialisolation. But what about how to cope with #forcedtogetherness?
It is very easy to trigger negative emotions and reactions in other people especially when we are spending so much time with them.
So here are some tips…
How was it for you?
Flowers, a meal out, a cosy night in……how should you celebrate Valentine’s Day (if at all)?
Continue readingWhat Interaction Styles can do for you
We tend to judge others by their impact on us, but Interaction Styles enables us to make allowances and see beyond that to their positive intention….
Continue readingBoris, Jezza, Theresa and Dave – a Tale of Four Styles
Seeing real people in action is a great way to appreciate how the impact and influence of each Interaction Style works. Our last three Prime Ministers and the leader of the Opposition, each display one of the four Styles in their public persona. Here is my take on them…
Continue readingWhat sort of father are you?
Gone are the days (thank goodness) when fathers were remote figures whose children hardly knew them. Now you can be your natural self far more. But what is your natural style?
Continue readingTo Do or Not to Do?
Most people use “to-do” lists but we use them in different ways. For some people a to-do list is a list of things they will definitely do (at the appropriate time). For others, a to-do list is a mixture of things they will do and things they “might” do.
Continue readingAbout the MBTI
There has been some negative coverage of the MBTI in the media. Some of the criticism arises from a misconception about what type is supposed to do and a misunderstanding about how the instrument works.
Continue readingPower, Gender and Personality
The impression of power created by each style is complicated by gender. Women are typically seen as less powerful than men and in some cases, their style may contribute to this perception…..
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