Before you can understand others, you need to understand yourself. By knowing more about:
- Your preference for gathering information
- How you tend to interact with people
- Your ‘thinking style’ in relation to tasks, decision making and problem solving
Self knowledge leads to an increase in your effectiveness when working in a variety of situations and with a range of different people. By understanding more about your personal preferences, you have an increased range of choices in your behaviour which help you not just at work, but also in your personal relationships outside of work.
There are many different personality assessment tools which can assist you in discovering more about yourself. However, choosing the right diagnostic tool can be problematic, and you can often be left with information which you don’t then know how to use or make sense of.
