In a fun, light-hearted manner, dynamic mother and daughter duo, Dr. Diane Hamilton and Toni Rothpletz, share with readers their insight on the importance of understanding personalities. People and their different personalities are what make the workplace fun. Using...
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How to Ace the Job Interview by Understanding Introverts and Extroverts
For those of you who have taken a Myers-Briggs MBTI personality assessment, you may already know if you are an introvert or extrovert. It gets confusing to some as many say extrovert. Myers-Briggs uses the term extravert. What is important is that you understand...
How to Get a Job: Why Employers Value Emotional Intelligence
Check out why it is so important to understand how your emotional intelligence may impact your ability to get a job. If you are interested in reading the book by Daniel Goleman that I refer to here, it is called Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than...
Star Trainer Recommends Emotional Intelligence (EQ) for Effective Instruction (Interview)
With the upcoming release of our book, It's Not You It's Your Personality, there has been a lot of interest in interviews about personality assessments and training. In our book, Toni Rothpletz and I dedicate a chapter to each of the important personality tests,...
How to Get a Job Marketing You as the Product
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How is Your Job Satisfaction? It May be Based upon Your Personality Type
If you are having difficulty enjoying your job, recent research indicates that the problem may be due to your personality type. The research, in November’s issue of The Journal of Psychological Type, is based on the Myers-Briggs MBTI personality assessment instrument...
The Happiness Advantage: Not What I Expected . . . It was Better
image via server.enterprisemedia.com I have been reading the new book, The Happiness Advantage, by Shawn Achor. I have read a lot of books about personalities and psychology when doing research for my book: It’s Not You . . .It’s Your Personality. I noticed an ad for...
What is an Intellitar? Live Eternally Through a Virtual Representation of You
Have you heard about Intellitars? Intellitar.com describes them as: An artificially intelligent representation of you, that you can carry on a real-time conversation, just like a real person. Through your intellitar, you will be able to preserve and share your...
Does the New Facebook Movie Imply Zuckerberg has Asperger’s?
image via nypost.com There has been some buzz on the Internet about Zuckerberg’s psychological state for years now. The release of the movie, The Social Network, only has added to the discussion. There is one scene in which they show Zuckerberg sitting in a meeting...
What is Mark Zuckerberg’s Personality Type?
via en.wikipedia.org Mark Zuckerberg’s name is mentioned just about everywhere these days due to the popularity of the latest movie about the creation of Facebook. In our book, The Young Adult’s Guide to Understanding Personalities, Toni Rothpletz and I...
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Our guest today is DocuSign’s Chief People Officer, Joan Burke. In this episode, we discuss DocuSign’s unique core company values: Trusted, Loved, and Responsible. Joan tells us how and why these values are kept top-of-mind for every decision around how they treat...