Job related Personality Graph to discover behavioral style and personal strengths
Job related Personality Graph displays behavioral qualities which belong to next categories:
- leadership qualities
- Communication and interpersonal relations
- Empathy
- Diligence
- Rationality and Analyticity
The main purpose of job related Personality Graph is visual demonstration of main work-related personal strengths and weaknesses.
Knowledge of behavioral style can help leaders created productive environment where each team member can expect what someone will do in some circumstance or other.
Important steps in effective team building:
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identifying the personal strengths that are right for a specific purpose.
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identifying the personal strengths compatible among the team members.
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identifying the personal strengths compatible between the team and its leader.
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balance personal strengths and weaknesses of all team members so that they complement each other in accomplishing common tasks instead of arguing over different points of views.
Employees with similar leadership qualities.
Graph 1. Team leader
Graph 2. Subordinate
Team leader (graph 1) is a person with strong leadership qualities and subordinate (graph 2) with medium leadership qualities.
In their interaction person from graph 1 will play a role of strong leader.
If team has two or more members with accented leadership qualities it can provoke conflict.
As a result performance can suffer.
In such cases the leader can delegate some responsibilities to member with strong leadership qualities.
Employees with similar Rationality, Visionary, Assurance qualities
Graph 3
Graph 4
These two employees (Graph 3 and Graph 4) can effectively collaborate in activities that require Rationality, Visionary, Assurance qualities.
As for qualities that have different level of expressiveness Sociability, Extraversion, Communication it is advisable to focus each person on activities that require engagement of their personal qualities with higher level of expressiveness.
Leader and subordinate with similar Diligence qualities
Graph 5. Team member with diligence related personal strengths
Diligence-related personal strengths (conscientiousness at 86% and self-control at 89%) predominate over the rest.
His conscientiousness and self-control are higher then leader (graph 1) has.
In such case leader can delegate some tasks related to strong quality of his subordinate.
Empathy related personal strengths
People with high empathy qualities can be valuable in team thanks to their ability in understanding and entering into another's feelings.
Such people can be engaged into tasks like helping to other team members. Team members with high empathy can be upset when they communicate with persons who possess low level on empathy. So they should learn to perceive such cases positively.
Communication related personal strengths
Sociability, extraversion and communication can be considered in this group.
People with low sociability are good at work which has task that can be accomplished individually without relegation or participation of others.
Low level of communication skills can lead to lack of understanding of other team members. Leader should assess the level of communication within the team to prevent such case.
Team weaknesses
Job related Personality Graph will help to reveal possible "lacks" in team.
Consider graph 3 and 5. Both have low level of empathy. As a result group that consists of these two members will have problems in creating warm relationships with other members