Gillian Hyde, Chief Psychologist at Psychological Consultancy Ltd, discusses how your personality style and values impact the way you interact, make decisions and manage tasks in the workplace. Understanding these traits and values helps to shed light on why people behave the way they do. She explains the benefits of having a mixture of different personality styles within a team, but how this can also lead to conflict. Assessing the ‘dark side’ of personality – those characteristics that can potentially derail someone’s career – enables individuals to develop strategies to manage counterproductive behaviours and helps organisations to reduce conflict in ‘toxic teams’ and improve team effectiveness. Find out more about assessing personality traits and values in the workplace here.
