Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments for Peak Performance: How to Unlock Your Talents to Excel At Work [Paperback]

Scott Campbell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003

The Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments and Peak Performance was written to help you achieve sustained levels of excellence for today’s demanding workplace. Long-term peak performance is both a signal of your ongoing value to your organization and a sign of true satisfaction in your career. Peak performers in all fields are proactive individuals. They choose environments and relationships that support and sustain them in this pursuit. They exercise self-leadership. If you are ready to make the leap towards being a peak performer in your organization and your career, this book is the place to start.

In these pages you will find a roadmap for achieving and sustaining excellence in your individual and team work-roles. First, you will explore the four personal dimensions that must exist to create sustained peak performance. With this framework in mind, you will then determine your core needs, governing values, and natural talents—key components of your temperament. The final stage is to take your new self-understanding and link it to the four dimensions of peak performance. The result is a customized development plan that will lead you towards higher and higher levels of workplace excellence.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A terrific text for both the beginner as well as the experienced facilitator to use for themselves or with others." -- Gregory D. Sawyer, Director, Organizational Health & Wellness, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital

"A tremendous adjunct to coaching for new clients seeking career development or performance enhancement." -- Pam Fox Rollin, Executive Coach, Principal, IdeaShape Coaching & Consulting

"[this book] teaches you how to get the most from your inner resources." -- Linda Stewart, Director of Operations, Association of Ontario Health Centres

About the Author

Scott Campbell, M.Div., is an accomplished speaker and trainer committed to helping individuals and organizations unleash their leadership potential. He is the president and founder of Personalities At Work, a leadership training, coaching, and consulting consortium. Scott serves as a faculty member at Temperament Research Institute and at 16types University. He is on the executive board of the Ontario Association for the Application of Psychological Type.

Scott’s clients have included Nike Canada, GE, Meritcare Health Systems, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Oxford Properties Group, LDM Technologies, Ontario Provincial Police, Louisiana Pacific, Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, Ontario New Homes Warranty Program, SaskTel, Retail Performance Group, Human Resources Development Canada, Chinook Group, and Trammel Crow Company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 44 pages
• Publisher: Telos Publications (October 2003)
• ISBN-10: 097121445X
• ISBN-13: 978-0971214453
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,499,600 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, insightful and straight to the point, November 5, 2005

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David Perry (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments for Peak Performance: How to Unlock Your Talents to Excel At Work (Paperback)

As a college instructor I've found Scott's workbook very helpful to advise students who are near graduation or -- just as often -- students who thought they knew what they wanted to do and then discovered their "dream career" needs major rethinking. The book is organized in three parts. Part 1 describes four elements of peak performance including: proactive self-leadership, workplace culture fit, work roles fit and what he calls vision of performance excellence. Part 2 describes four temperaments: four sets of "core" needs and values. These strike me as a great compass to completing part 3 of the workbook, where you bring everything together to develop your action plan. The skills, talents and values invenstories at the back are useful too to step "outside the box." Scott writes in an easy-to-follow first-person voice and provides stories along the way to connect the material to your life. What I really appreciate about this workbook is that it's not a test like the Strong Interest Inventory that directs you to a list of careers. When I took the SII and looked up my sugggested careers, the category I fell into was empty! Scott's book puts the work and joy of rediscovering your "peek performance" path back into the hands of the person most affected and responsible, you.