Workplace Personality Articles and Team Insights

Practical reading on personality types, team dynamics, communication, motivation, and self-awareness at work.

Explore articles that connect personality theory with everyday workplace situations: how people make decisions, handle pressure, collaborate, lead, and understand each other. Start with the latest posts below, or use the personality type profiles and comparison tools to go deeper.

Is it right to ‘put people in a box?’
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Is it right to ‘put people in a box?’

I used to teach ‘psychology,’ (in the sense of understanding ourselves and other people rather as an academic discipline), to senior executives from across the world. They all found it fascinating, (well, we are all our own favourite anecdote) until it got to Jungian Typology, Myers Briggs Type Indicator where the cry would invariably go up, “you can’t put me in a box, I am...

Can people change, I mean really change?
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Can people change, I mean really change?

How often have you heard, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” And the answer, of course is, “You can but it depends if the old dog want’s to learn them.”

How Hawthorne shone a light on workplace motivation
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How Hawthorne shone a light on workplace motivation

The Hawthorne Studies were a series of influential experiments that revolutionised our understanding of workplace psychology. Learn about the history, methodology, and the profound implications of the