Understanding what motivates individuals with diverse personalities and circumstances is essential for effective teamwork and leadership. Through leveraging these to delegate tasks, set expectations, and define goals, you can foster collaboration, align tasks with strengths, and ensure everyone feels valued and engaged, whether in university or a professional setting.
A good place to start when it comes to learning about how to work with different personalities is to understand your own. Some employers use personality tests or questions to help them learn more about you and how you might fit in a team, while they may not all be as scientific and accurate as others, they can be used as tools to help generate discussion points, or things reflect on.
Understanding your personality can help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to reflect on what to be mindful of when collaborating with peers
Some tests that you could use to explore your personalities are:
There are a range of tests you can access as a student on the Graduates First and Careers & Employment Service websites. With many of these tests there are no right or wrong answer. However, bear in mind that how you answer will impact the result you get.
For example, answering how you think you should be, as opposed to how you are may generate a completely different result. Someone else may see you completely differently!
