Partnering With Other Types
Exploring the use of psychological type and team technology to empower interaction with anyone
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Book Details
About the Book
Every day each of us does simple
things like ordering a product and complex things like doing our job. All these
activities involve partnering with others. Partnering is necessary and comes
naturally for most of us. These
partnerships satisfy not only functional needs but social and personal needs.
However, partnering can have its difficulties.
Psychologists have studied the
difficulties in partnering that healthy, normal people encounter. They found
that how we perceive the world, how we make decisions, and how we interact with
others are preeminent pieces of the puzzle. Concepts of psychological type and
psychological temperament emerged from this work. We can use psychological type
in our own personal growth to know, accept, and specialize in who we are. Additionally,
psychological type can help with partnering by facilitating communications,
acceptance and understanding, and providing insight about the diversity and
differences we encounter.
Psychological type comprises two
attitudes and two functions. Using these four variables, there are sixteen unique psychological types into which we all
fall. When partnering one-on-one, if you combine 16 possible types with 16
other psychological types, then you come up with 256 unique psychological type
partnerships possible. It is now clear why there is so much diversity
present when people interact. Two hundred and fifty-six unique partnerships is
a great deal to understand and master. It would be helpful to have a
comprehensive reference manual that summarizes all of these combinations.
This book provides this material,
along with hints on how to deal with the most common type-based behaviors and
the use of temperament specific language to improve communication. This book
then proposes how to use psychological type, psychological temperament, and
team skills to improve our most important
interactions. Last, this manual proposes a general-purpose problem solving
process and provides an objective means of measuring how the interaction is
going.
Satisfying interactions are
possible even with those whom we previously had great difficulty enjoying. Much
of our difficulty is created by the diversity we encounter and our naive
approach in handling this diversity. This
book lifts the shroud of our ignorance on these subjects. It is now up to us to
care about our relationships sufficiently to take the time and effort to
tend them.
About the Author
Ken Boggs retired from the IBM
Corporation after nearly thirty-eight years in a range of management and
professional assignments. His career
spanned the creation fo
ubiquitous large system computing, international information systems networks,
the Internet, and the accreditation of project management.
Ken is a certified project
manager and a qualified Myers-Briggs consultant. He has worked with small teams and some very
large ones while managing projects up to $5M in value. He is currently a project management mentor,
and provide selective consulting and Myers-Briggs
counseling.
Ken is married to Mary Lucas,
physical therapist, yoga teacher, photographer, and quilter. They live in rural Chatham County North
Carolina. When Ken is not working with
clients and teams, he is an avid putterer – building
projects on our ten acres of pine and hard woods, gardening, operating an
amateur radio station KB4RV, exercising, playing backgammon, singing fold songs
and playing guitar, and enjoying a growing entourage of grandchildren.