Understand your work personality—how it helps you and holds you back, and what you can do to understand it.

Discover your hidden strengths for success—and the secrets of great relationships with your boss and co-workers.

Based on the well-known Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator®, the most widely accepted personality "test" in the world...

WORKTypes

What's the first thing you do when you arrive at work on Monday morning?

• 1. Greet your co-workers and check out their weekends.
• 2. Get right to work and tune out the noise around you.
• 3. Hope something unexpected will arise to change the week's routine.
• 4. Start organizing your week on a to-do list.

Your choice reflects your WORKType, a psychological profile based on the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator®(MBTI), the inventory used by thousands of professionals worldwide. Now three Meyers-Briggs experts help you discover your workstyle and strengths in the workplace and use them to improve communications, capitalize on teamwork, reduce stress, and find the best time management approach for you.

You'll learn how to:

• make meetings more productive.
• get recognition for your ideas.
• diffuse interpersonal conflicts and tension.
• handle change more easily.
• feel more energized--not drained--by your job.

Common Situations-Different WORKTypes: which are you?

• You are effective with the people you see every day, but when you interact with strangers, you feel uneasy and don't contribute as much as you know you can. How can you be more effective?
• You work at home one day a week, but you are distracted when you're not at the office. How can you get focused?
• A promotion put you on top of the world. Now you feel in over your head. How can you feel more in control?
• You're at the office late, come in early, and work weekends. What kind of time management will work for you?
• Two co-workers aren't getting along and the tension is affecting the whole office. Why aren't they getting along? What can you do?
• Meetings are a waste of time! But you don't know how to take charge -- or if you should. Do you have to sit and suffer?

Knowing your style—and your co-workers'—can smooth your job path and give you a career boost today!

Complete with examples of how each WORKType functions, this dynamic book will help you make the most of your WORKType—with co-workers, bosses, and, most of all, yourself!

Praise for WORKTypes

"An important book. Knowledge of personality type is becoming crucial to both improved teamwork and building career resilience."
-Bob Waterman, coauthor of In Search of Excellence, author of What America Does Right

"Anyone whose goal it is to work as effectively as possible will want to read this book and employ its insights."
-John J. Witek, M.D., Aspen Medical Group

"Theory and usefulness are wedded beautifully in this book."
-Judith Waterman, chairman and CEO, Career Management Group

"A highly accessible and readable resource...contains the most helpful and liberating insights into time management I've seen anywhere."
-Betsy Kendall, director, MBTI Training, Oxford Psychologists Press Ltd.

"Whether you are an experienced practitioner or new to the MBTI, this is an excellent resource."
-Mary M. Melbo, Ph.D., former executive vice president of human resources, Inter-Regional Financial Group

Understand yourself and make the most of who you are...

Based on the most widely accepted personality test in the world.

LIFETypes

How you answer these questions will begin to tell you who you really are... and what you could be doing with your life.

1. Do you mingle or stand apart at social events?
2. Do you make decisions with your head or your heart?
3. Do you like or dislike surprises?
4. Are you unhappy when you're alone?

Based on the work of Carl Jung, the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator® is the psychological profile employed by thousands of professional counselors worldwide. Now Meyers-Briggs experts Sandra Hirsh and Jean Kummerow use the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator to help you develop a thorough psychological self-portrait: to know your strengths and tendencies, overcome your weaknesses, and understand the people in your life better.

Learn:

• Why you have trouble doing some tasks while others come easily.
• What kind of careers, relationships, and recreational activities your personality type could choose or avoid.
• Why knowing your leadership style can help you influence others.

Complete with examples of how each LIFEType functions at work, at play, and in love, this book is designed to help you know and accept yourself...to let your true self guide you in everything you do.