"CHECK YOUR PERSONALITY PLEASE!!!!!"

Amicable refers to a friendliness or goodwill between people or groups. Amiable refers to one person's friendly disposition. A group might have an amicable meeting, because the people there are amiable.Understanding customer personality styles (Analytical, Driver, Amiable, and Expressive) will quickly tell you just how and what to say to each customer. Although every customer is different, most can be grouped into one of four groups: Analytical, Driver, Amiable, and Expressive.

Four temperaments is a proto-psychological theory that suggests that there are four fundamental personality types, sanguine (enthusiastic, active, and social), choleric (short-tempered, fast, or irritable), melancholic (analytical, wise, and quiet), and phlegmatic (relaxed and peaceful).

4 Personality Types that all Leaders Should Learn to Recognize

Different personality types work and communicate in very different ways. Learning how to identify and understand personality types based on common characteristics is a key component to effective, practical leadership.

The Golden Rule states: Treat others the way you want to be treated. While this is generally a good rule of thumb, the reality is that, as leaders, we often must break that rule in order to relate with the various personality types we are managing. Not everyone in the world communicates and reacts to their environment in the same way. Some of us enjoy basking in the glow of the limelight while others are very uncomfortable with public displays of praise situations.

In my experience, there tend to be four main personality types. I label them as analytical, driver, amiable, and expressive. Each of these personality types exhibit general characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses and need to be managed and communicated with in subtly different ways. Understanding the unique characteristics will help you successfully manage personality types to increase your team’s job satisfaction, performance, and reach organizational goals.

1. Analytical

The analytical personality type is very deep and thoughtful. They’re serious and purposeful individuals. They set very high standards, so they have very high standards of performance personally and professionally. Analyticals are orderly and organized. They also tend to have that really dry but witty sense of humor.

Analytical strengths are that they are perfectionists. They want things done right and they want them done right the first time. They’re neat and tidy individuals. Analyticals are economical, and they are self-disciplined.

Analyticals weaknesses are that they can be moody, critical, and negative. Analyticals can be indecisive and they over-analyze everything. Their perfectionism can also manifest as a weakness at times, as they can be guilty of making their pursuit of perfection stall completion.

2. Driver

Drivers are the dynamic and active personality type. They exude confidence and naturally gravitate toward leadership positions. They move very quickly to action, but they are not detail oriented. Drivers are great with the big picture—they’re visionaries and they see how we’re going to get to where we need to go, but they’re not always great at taking the interim steps needed to get there.

You can probably see how and analytical and a driver might not work very well together – but also that their skills can nicely complement each other. It can be said that if you want to get to the moon you hire a driver, but if you want to get back you hire an analytical.

Drivers’ strengths are that they are very determined individuals. They are independent and they are productive. Drivers get a lot of things done. They are visionaries and they’re decisive. A driver would rather make a bad decision than no decision. They just want that decision to be made.

On the weak side, the driver can be insensitive, unsympathetic, harsh, proud, and sarcastic. Drivers do not like to admit when they are wrong. They can also rush to a decision without thoroughly thinking through or understanding the results or consequences of their decision.

3. Amiable

The amiable personality type is a very patient and well-balanced individual. They’re quiet but witty. They’re very sympathetic, kind, and inoffensive—amiable do not like to offend people.

An amiable is easy going and everybody likes the amiable. You know why? Because they don’t like conflict so they’re very easy to get along with. They’re diplomatic and calm. But on the weak side, amiable s can be stubborn and selfish. Their aversion to of fence and conflict can also manifest as a weakness.

4. Expressive

We call the expressive the social specialist because they love to have fun. They are individuals who turn disaster into humor, they prevent dull moments, and they are very generous people. They want to be included. Expressive want to be included in projects. They want to be included on teams. They want to be included in conversations.

On the strong side, the expressive is very outgoing. They are ambitious, charismatic, and persuasive. On the weak side, they can be disorganized, undisciplined, loud, and incredibly talkative. Expressive can talk up to 200 words a minute with gusts up to 300. They can talk.

Of course, these are generalizations and many people will exhibit some amount of any number of these personality types. However, everyone will more strongly exhibit characteristics of one type over all the others. Recognizing and understanding which personality types you are managing on your team will help you motivate and communicate with them.

Managing personality types is a difficult part of our roles as managers. However, identifying and understanding how each personality type is motivated and how they communicate is a critical step in being able to effectively manage your team to success.

Tips for Understanding and Working with Others When working on communicating,

we need to find ways to "connect" with others. Apart from a common language, we need to share interests and terminology to understand what the other is saying. In the same way, we must work to bridge our differences in personality. The following rule generally holds true:

The further away you are from someone on the personality grid the more difficult it is to relate to them.

For example, a highly analytical person will likely find it difficult to work with someone who is very expressive. The same conflict could occur between a driver and an amiable. This is because their ways of thinking and working are quite different.

Most of the time we will not have the luxury of choosing who we will work with. Because of this, we must work with all personality types. To do this effectively, you will need to:

?Observe

. Listen and watch for personality cues; be open to someone else's style, values and perspective.

?Adapt

. Find common ground with someone who is different; this could be your speed of speaking or the terms you use (e.g., talking about facts vs. feelings).

?Connect

. Watch for body language and get feedback from others to see if you are being understood; check your own thoughts/feelings. Do you feel harmony or discord?

The objective is to understand and relate to all other personality types. That is when communication clicks and working together works best. In order to better understand personality types, it is best if we understand our own personality type.

The Value of Personality Analysis

Here are some ways the personality analysis can help you become a leader:

?Increased self -acceptance

.You will begin to accept more of your strengths and your weaknesses.

?Improved awareness

.You will recognize where your strengths can become weaknesses.

?More perspective .

You will be able to see (and have more understanding of) different sides of yourself and others.

?Greater choice

.Knowing different personality qualities, you will be able to develop the ones you want.

?More understanding and ability to work with others

.You will see the strengths and needs of people around you.

?Enhanced personal growth.

You will feel more balanced, more integrated, and whole.

Difference Between Amiable and Amicable

?Amiable vs Amicable

English and grammar is one of the subjects that we have to study in school. We were taught about language and how to use words properly. The tests would cover everything and require us to compose an essay about a subject that is important to us.

In the process, a lot of things are learned including the proper choice of words in writing or when speaking. Choosing the right word to convey what you mean can be hard sometimes especially when a lot of them sound alike and are spelled almost the same. Sometimes just a letter added or with one word having a vowel which is different from the other word can make all the difference.

What is needed then is for one to be able to distinguish the meaning of one word from another. It can be tricky since the English language is full of words that are similar either in sound, spelling, or meaning.

The words ‘amicable’ and ‘amiable’ are almost spelled the same with the letter ‘c’ added to amiable. They are two different words, though, and they convey different meanings. Although the letters used in both are almost identical, their meanings are very distinct from each other.

Amiable

‘Amiable’ is a word or, to be more specific, it is an adjective that is used to describe a person. It refers to someone who is friendly and pleasant, a person with a good-natured personality.

An amiable person is one who is sociable and agreeable; one who is willing to accept the decisions and suggestions of other people easily. He or she is usually a very lovable person. In short, amiable is a positive trait that one sees in a person.

Amicable

‘Amicable’ is an adjective that is used to describe an incident or situation. It comes from the Latin word that means friendly, meaning there is no feeling of antagonism between the parties involved.

It is characterized by a show of goodwill between two parties who have disagreed and have decided to finally agree on something. It is used to describe a peaceful solution to a misunderstanding or a disagreement.

Examples:

??? The dispute was finally resolved with both parties agreeing to an amicable settlement.

??? Although both of them are amiable people, their divorce was not an amicable one.

??? What draws people towards her is her amiable and interesting personality. She has a way in making two opposing parties agree amicably on things.

Both ‘amiable’ and ‘amicable’ are positive words that are used for describing people and incidents. While ‘amicable’ may be used to also describe a person, it is important to be careful on how it is used in the sentence.

It is awkward to use ‘amiable’ to describe an incident, though, and it must only be used to describe a person’s character and personality.

Summary:

1. ‘Amiable’ is an adjective that is used to describe a person or persons while ‘amicable’ is an adjective that is used to describe an incident or the relations between people.

2. ‘Amiable’ is used to describe a trait while ‘amicable’ is used to describe a situation.

Tips for Your Type

For the Amiable:

• Speed up with " fast " people
• Talk more, listen less
• Take control occasionally; be assertive
• Take some risks

For the Analytical:

• Speak more and smile more
• Sow appreciation and personal interest
• Relax; share information and be open to others
• Remember: Enthusiasm will not kill you...

For the Driver:

• Slow down with "slow" people
• Take time to listen to the ideas of others
• Hold back from dominating; relinquish some control
• Show more patience and act more relaxed

For the Expressive:

Listen more; slow down, relax

• Write things down; set specific goals
• Check details and stay calm
• Learn to concentrate