People Styles at Work...And Beyond, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 5

See Yourself as Others See You

TO ASCERTAIN YOUR STYLE, turn to the People Styles Self-Assessment Inventory that you filled out in Chapter 3 (pages 26–27). The inventory is not a test. There is no better or worse combination of scores. As you recall, each style has tendencies to important strengths, and each has propensities to some weaknesses.

In each column, count the number of boxes you checked and record the totals in the appropriate “Total Scores” spaces.

Here’s what the totals mean. In the column farthest to the left, you tallied the less assertive (left-of-the-line) behaviors that characterize you. The column next to it is where ...