Work It Out: Using Personality Type to Improve Team Performance

Work It Out delivers a dynamic way to simplify the complex--and sometimes chaotic--interactions between people at work. With fresh insights on applying the power of personality type in executive coaching, experts Hirsh and Kise have built a solid foundation for helping individuals tap into their strengths, minimize unnecessary conflict, and learn to work more effectively with others. Dozens of hands-on exercises, intervention descriptions, and case studies put the power to implement these teambuilding and coaching strategies into the hands of any manager, consultant, business leader, or HR professional committed to improving communication, reducing stress, fostering sustainable change, and building strong, effective teams in organizations.

Sandra Krebs Hirsh is an international consultant and noted author on personality type who has worked with such clients as Honeywell and 3M on issues of leadership, career, and organization development. Her best-selling books include LifeKeys (with Kise) and Introduction to TypeÂ(R) in Organizations, which has sold over one million copies. Jane A. G. Kise, Ed.D., is a management consultant specializing in teambuilding and strategic planning and coauthor of Introduction to TypeÂ(R) and Coaching and SoulTypes (with Hirsh). A board member of the Association for Psychological Type, she is also on the faculty of the Center for Applications of Psychological Type.