by linda gilden
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IN A HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ARTICLE January 25, 2017, called “Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills” by Dave Winsborough and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, the authors mention a study done by Google in 2016 in which Google said they had found “the secret ingredients for the perfect team.” At Google “people are preselected on the basis of their personality (or ‘Googliness’).” Many large organizations use some type of personality assessment to assist in hiring, promoting and matching individuals with certain jobs and departments. As speakers and writers, we sometimes feel we are working solo and don’t need to discuss team building or personalities. In fact, the opposite is true. If you are a writer, you have a team waiting to help
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you get your work published. You must interact with editors of various sorts, the design team, publishers and others. Once your work is in print, there are marketers, readers and the general public. Speakers must have good communication with event planners, those who help with book tables, accommodation hostesses and the audience after you speak. You may have never thought about the role personality plays in your work or ministry. But if you can master a few relationship skills by learning about the personalities — both yours and those you work with — you will find that you can work more effectively with those around you. There are many assessments that use different words to describe each personality, but you will find
