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Which personality type are you at the workplace

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Working with people is never just about work. It’s about synergy, team work and it’s also about understanding other people’s way of work to get things done and to keep communication flowing.

There will always be annoying people around you at your workplace but what we really need to learn is how to be a personality type who can be professional at all times.

Most importantly, what we need to do is to carry ourselves in a way so that our team and colleagues look upon us as dependable, reliable resources who will keep to their work and maintain a professional ethic.

The funny thing is that in every office, you will find a bunch of typical personality types ranging from the controlling workaholic to the food trailer who carries his or her lunch around on the floor. This kind of colleagues are without a worry in the world about how everyone else is being affected. Funny, yes but also annoying for people working around.

We all know that we avoid certain personality types in the workplace. The annoying types who make us want to walk by without saying hello. And then on the other hand, there are those team players who always leave us with a smile or with whom we would love to work on any project, just because they are so professional.

This infographic is a witty way of looking at how people behave in the workplace and even more importantly, how other people view their behavior and are affected by them.

 

13 Personality Types in Every Office

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What’s really interesting is that while we joke about most of the people who annoy us in the work place, every single individual adds diversity to the workplace in the way they behave, act and contribute towards their tasks. Different personality types in the workplace are not always a bad thing. 

One of the key findings in a study conducted by Forbes Insights on Nurturing Europe’s Spirit of Enterprise: How Entrepreneurial Executives Mobilize Organizations to Innovate  is that  innovation and enterprise benefits strongly from a diverse workforce. This shows that people while they may be different make up a culture and for us to professionally co-exist, we need to develop work ethics that are not personal or invasive towards our colleagues.

At the same time, it is important to understand your own personality type and develop your own professional outlook. 

If you are someone who wants to innovate and bring ideas to the table, then perhaps you need to look at a company of smaller scale that can offer you the room and the capacity to turn your idea into a real project. The same study concludes that when it comes to innovation, bigger is not better. Organizations with 100 to 249 employees were best at generating innovative ideas. Those with revenues between $5 million and $100 million were best at executing them. 

This kind of information can be crucial in making a career move where you understand what kind of a culture you would be a perfect fit for and when applying for a position, what kind of professional gains are you likely to achieve over the next few years. 

Well, no one really knows what they are good at and what they are not so comfortable with until they have worked somewhere they were really miserable. But there is a lesson learnt through experience which is to know what kind of company would you be a cultural fit for and can add value to. 

Most people are bringing diversity to a culture but there are certain personality types who can actually damage the business and the work culture at any organization and these are the ones that managers and supervisors need to watch out for.

For all of the rest, it is a good idea to be wary of people who fall in this category and keep our distance in the way we work with such people. Who are such people? Read this very interesting article here about personality types who can actually damage the business in more than one way. 

On that note, have a great week ahead and happy communicating!

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About Ayesha Sohaib

Ayesha Sohaib is a writing coach, communication consultant and a social media advocate. A wordsmith at heart, she enjoys writing, traveling and reviewing brand strategies. Ayesha tweets about what piques her interest. You can tweet at her @ASwordsmith.

About Ayesha Sohaib

Ayesha Sohaib is a writing coach, communication consultant and a social media advocate. A wordsmith at heart, she enjoys writing, traveling and reviewing brand strategies. Ayesha tweets about what piques her interest. You can tweet at her @ASwordsmith.

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