Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types and Career Mastery: Living with Purpose and Working Effectively [Paperback]

Charles R. Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 2003

The Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types and Career Mastery was written to help you bring the principles and practices of personal mastery to your career development. Career Mastery is about clarifying your purpose, honing your intent, finding and managing a career, and working effectively in any given job or role. Mastering your career means consciously engaging each of the Elements of Career Mastery™—five processes that are essential to discovering and building a career as well as enhancing your success and development in your current work role.

The activities in this book provide a framework for self-coaching by helping you uncover what you really want in your career and by providing insight into how your personality style influences your approach to the behavioral options represented by each of these essential career elements. Career Mastery and personal mastery are about waking up to a world that is more wondrous than can be confined to the habitual perceptions of your everyday personality. Wake up to that world and wake up to your power.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A practical and challenging approach, Martin wisely imbeds psychological type in the larger processes of career development and life management." -- Larry Demarest, author, Looking at Type in the Workplace and Out of Time: How the 16 Types Manage Their Time and Work

"An excellent set of practical exercises for using one’s psychological type in making career plans." -- Gordon Lawrence, author, People Types and Tiger Stripes

"How refreshing! ...how you plan your career rather than using type to ‘plug in to the right career." -- Richard L. Knowdell, Executive Director, Career Planning and Adult Development Network, author, Building a Career Development Program: Nine Steps for Effective Implementation

"I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking a connection between the life journey and a more fulfilling career!" -- Ann B. Loomis, author, Write from the Start: Discover Your Writing Potential through the Power of Psychological Type

"Provides a comprehensive distance learning course in Career Mastery that will help anyone wishing to change direction at whatever stage." -- Judy Allen, coauthor, Health Care Communication Using Personality Type: Patients Are Different!

About the Author

Charles R. Martin, Ph.D.
Charles R. Martin is a licensed psychologist engaged in a full-time consulting and coaching practice. In his coaching and consulting work, Dr. Martin’s emphasis is on promoting self-mastery and effective living and working through the development of personal and professional skills. He draws on his background to use a variety of models and assessment tools to support clients in reaching their personal, professional, and organizational goals. He is a past vice president of research and development for the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT) and was the architect of CAPT’s MBTI® Qualifying Program. Dr. Martin has trained and qualified hundreds of professionals to use personality type as a tool for both personal and professional development.

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Telos Publications (January 28, 2003)
• ISBN-10: 0971214441
• ISBN-13: 978-0971214446
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #799,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An enlightened approach to type and career development, March 8, 2004

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This review is from: Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types and Career Mastery: Living with Purpose and Working Effectively (Paperback)

Super book - a lot packed in a little space. Motivational, informative, and enlightening. As a coach and consultant, I've read many books on personality type and on using type in careers. This one is one of the best and a fine guide to personal career exploration and management and an excellent companion to career coaching for those who know or use personality type. It's not intended to be a basic introduction to personality type - so it's good for you or your clients to have gotten that introduction through the many fine resources available.

This book doesn't fall into the common (and misguided) practice of many other books on the market in suggesting careers based on type preferences. That means it doesn't offer quick and easy answers. Instead it gives steps and exercises for uncovering the truly important information needed for making career choices (purpose, interests and so on), then goes on to show how personality type affects the behaviors needed to realize your career dream. Here's a representative quote, "Use type to wake up to HOW to get what you want in a career, not WHICH career to choose."

Clearly this book is about developing awareness and about personal awakening - while supporting you in finding and managing your career. It's not just about career mastery, but about life mastery. Again, the book doesn't give easy answers - but it prompts you to ask some good questions. Read it and you'll see what I mean.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types and Career Mastery, November 17, 2009

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For me simply finding out what MBTI profile I was became the starting point of understanding what I am best suited to. Then this book provided me more insight and detail into what I was in denial of for years. That is it helped me seek clarity and enabled me to reconnect to my purpose. I am now planning the next stage of my life based on the guidance and information extracted from this book. An easy read for those seeking answers to their future.

5.0 out of 5 stars Deeper insight, March 12, 2009

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This is a great complimentary text for identifying pragmatic character strenghts and possible delta changes in the pursit of professional success.