Type Talk at Work - 16 Personality Types at the Workplace

Joe Arrigo is a professional recruiter with a passion for matching people with their ideal career paths through a counseling process. In his leisure time, Joe Arrigo enjoys reading. One of the books he highly recommends is Type Talk at Work by Otto Kroeger, Janet Thuesen, and Hile Rutledge.

Type Talk at Work builds on research about the Myers Briggs 16 personality types by elaborating on how personality influences work and career. The book gives an introduction to personality types and then tells how to identify your personality type and those of your colleagues.

Through a process called type watching, the authors tell how to evaluate your colleagues’ behavior and classify them in one of the personality types. The book then gives tips on how to leverage this understanding to strengthen workplace leaderships, resolve conflicts, and build teams.

Borrowing from their own experiences in typology, the authors create a roadmap for professionals who want to understand their colleagues and enhancing workplace relations and productivity.