Like leaves of many colors, we each have a different energy. Each colored leaf excites the senses in different ways and evokes a different emotion just as each of us impacts and influences others in different ways. This energy is driven from within by our predispositions and yet influenced by our interactions with others. There is a richness and variety in the many ways we have of expressing who we are. The four interaction styles are patterns of behavior that have been described by many over the years. Each style has a theme-centered internal drive that helps set the boundaries of our comfort zones in the chaotic world of interpersonal relationships. If we can recognize our own style, we can better match our energy and know how to adapt and flex when necessary to reach goals and meet others at their view of the world. Understanding Yourself and Others: An Introduction to Interaction Styles reveals the four fundamental interaction style patterns for you to try on in your search for understanding yourself and others. Within these patterns are clues to the how of our behaviors. Find out how you consistently seem to fall into certain roles in your interactions with others and how you can shift your energies to take on other roles when necessary. The Understanding Yourself and Others Series offers you powerful and insightful tools to help you achieve your professional and personal goals whether you're the leader of an organization striving to build better teams or an individual wanting to better understand yourself and the people with whom you interact. The series presents the essential elements of personality through three overlapping and complementary models: temperament theory, interaction styles, and cognitive dynamics, all of which support systemic learning and application. Exploring these models helps answer questions about how and why we do what we do, and provides hands-on guidance through showing you potential paths for growth and development. The books in this series are written by experts and are based on proven methods for effective learning and application. Edition 2.0 includes content on the 4 variations of each interaction style which is gives us the 16 personality types.
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Linda V. Berens, Ph.D., is the President and founder of Interstrength Associates, which provides organizational consulting and interventions as well as certification of trainers in the Interstrength Method. Linda is the author of Understanding Yourself and Others: An Introduction to Temperament and Dynamics of Personality Type: Understanding and Applying Jung s Cognitive Processes and the coauthor of The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery and Working Together: A Personality-Centered Approach to Management. She is an organizational consultant and has spent over twenty-five years teaching professionals as well as helping individuals and teams recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work together better. Linda is recognized internationally for her theoretical contributions to the field of psychological type and for developing user-friendly training materials for practical application of understanding individual differences.
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I've been interested in the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) and personality type theory for a while, so I was very interested when I stumbled across this booklet on Amazon. I eagerly ordered and read it, and while I found this booklet somewhat interesting and containing some new information, it was also frustrating in some ways.
Weighing in at 47 pages with tables, graphics and diagrams, this booklet is clearly written as a gentle introduction for people in a work setting unfamiliar with the Jungian personality types. The booklet is primarily focused on its 4 Interaction Styles, and includes descriptions detailed descriptions of those styles. It also includes self descriptions of the four styles, as well. The four styles are:
Chart-the-Course(tm)
Behind-the-Scenes(tm)
In-Charge(tm)
Get-Things-Going(tm)
I found I immediately wanted to know how the Interaction Styles mapped to the MBTI, but was frustrated that that information was held until Appendix A.
The primary strength of this booklet lies in its descriptions of interaction styles in the workplace, and it is helpful for helping to identifying and working with the preferred styles of others. However, by spending most of its time focused on four broad categories, it muddies the self-identification waters a bit early on. To be fair, it eventually gives the four variations on each style (which finally correspond to the 16 MBTI types), but only fairly far into the booklet.
If one is expecting a lengthy text or one with a great deal of depth and exploration, then look elsewhere. However, if one is looking for an introduction to type in the workplace or a model for building tolerance for other interaction styles at work, then this booklet can be a helpful resource.
Weighing in at 47 pages with tables, graphics and diagrams, this booklet is clearly written as a gentle introduction for people in a work setting unfamiliar with the Jungian personality types. The booklet is primarily focused on its 4 Interaction Styles, and includes descriptions detailed descriptions of those styles. It also includes self descriptions of the four styles, as well. The four styles are:
Chart-the-Course(tm)
Behind-the-Scenes(tm)
In-Charge(tm)
Get-Things-Going(tm)
I found I immediately wanted to know how the Interaction Styles mapped to the MBTI, but was frustrated that that information was held until Appendix A.
The primary strength of this booklet lies in its descriptions of interaction styles in the workplace, and it is helpful for helping to identifying and working with the preferred styles of others. However, by spending most of its time focused on four broad categories, it muddies the self-identification waters a bit early on. To be fair, it eventually gives the four variations on each style (which finally correspond to the 16 MBTI types), but only fairly far into the booklet.
If one is expecting a lengthy text or one with a great deal of depth and exploration, then look elsewhere. However, if one is looking for an introduction to type in the workplace or a model for building tolerance for other interaction styles at work, then this booklet can be a helpful resource.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I was introduced to Linda Berens' workbooks through a course I'm taking via TypeInsights. Dr. Berens et al. have developed a threefold model of temperament, interactive (social) style and cognitive dynamics which dovetail or "triangulate" to help one discover his "best-fit" Jungian personality type, the "core type" which was innate at his birth. While it takes much longer to go through the sort of guided self-discovery that this series of workbooks makes possible, the results are much more reliable than simply taking a "test" such as the famous MBTI, and one learns much more about one's psyche and those of others along the way.
Without question, the threefold model of Berens et al. is the most helpful, least confusing and best documented model of the normal human personality that I have ever seen, and I recommend this and the other workbooks as highly as any book I have EVER seen of ANY kind whatever.
This particular workbook details the contribution to the model that owes the most to Berens: interactive styles. Each of the four temperaments has four personality types within it, and interestingly each type has one of four possible interactive styles. There is a beautiful internal logic in the model that has powerful predictive value and practical application, and Berens takes great pains to be as clear and thorough as possible without drowning the reader in jargon. She obviously cares about human beings and the human psyche, deeply.
This workbook especially helped my life coach (Vicky Jo Varner of TypeInsights - see her CD Type Insights: The Eight Level Model of Psychological Type) and I remove the fallacy from my mind that my "core type" is INTJ (as the MBTI has consistently indicated for decades). I am actually ENFP: Catalyst temperament, Get-Things-Going interactive style, and Discoverer Advocate personality type (in Berens' terminology). INTJ and some closely allied types are simply roles that I thought I had to put on. And the best part is, using Berens' workbooks and other means puts the results beyond doubt, so that when I start thinking of myself in outmoded ways, I can remind myself, "No, THIS is how you function most naturally, and THESE are the strengths and weaknesses that go with that functionality." All of which is more liberating than I can tell you...
Without question, the threefold model of Berens et al. is the most helpful, least confusing and best documented model of the normal human personality that I have ever seen, and I recommend this and the other workbooks as highly as any book I have EVER seen of ANY kind whatever.
This particular workbook details the contribution to the model that owes the most to Berens: interactive styles. Each of the four temperaments has four personality types within it, and interestingly each type has one of four possible interactive styles. There is a beautiful internal logic in the model that has powerful predictive value and practical application, and Berens takes great pains to be as clear and thorough as possible without drowning the reader in jargon. She obviously cares about human beings and the human psyche, deeply.
This workbook especially helped my life coach (Vicky Jo Varner of TypeInsights - see her CD Type Insights: The Eight Level Model of Psychological Type) and I remove the fallacy from my mind that my "core type" is INTJ (as the MBTI has consistently indicated for decades). I am actually ENFP: Catalyst temperament, Get-Things-Going interactive style, and Discoverer Advocate personality type (in Berens' terminology). INTJ and some closely allied types are simply roles that I thought I had to put on. And the best part is, using Berens' workbooks and other means puts the results beyond doubt, so that when I start thinking of myself in outmoded ways, I can remind myself, "No, THIS is how you function most naturally, and THESE are the strengths and weaknesses that go with that functionality." All of which is more liberating than I can tell you...
This was a helpful addition to a course I took on self assessment. It helps you understand how you interact with others, as distinct from personality type. Nice.
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