The inventory helps partipants learn their what their personality styles are and understand how their style influences communication and relationships with other people in the company or agency. The workshop is highly informative, interesting, and successful in helping business people understand how their personality styles help or hinder their success in dealing with and communicating with others.

The inventory is based on Carl G. Jung's writings about personal style, the same psychological literature on which the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based. Studies comparing the PSI and MBTI show they measure the same personality traits.

Participants take the PSI before the workshop or at the beginning of the workshop. Dr. Hogan explains the styles and how they influence communication, relationships, team success, and choices a person makes. During the workshop, participants interact with each other to see the effects their styles have on each other, helping them discover, at times humorously, how their styles have affected their work relationships and communication.

Dr. Hogan uses his workshop manual, Understanding Personal Styles (also published by HRDQ). It contains exercises that help participants understand their styles and the effects their styles have on them and those with whom they work. Participants receive copies of the exercises Dr. Hogan uses during the workshop for their reference later.

As part of the explanation of how participants' personality styles influence their work relationships and communication, Dr. Hogan refers to his book Explicit Business Writing: Best Practices for the Twenty-First Century. Participants receive a free copy of the book at the workshop.

This workshop can be combined with the writing skills workshop so participants have a half day or full day of each training.

 
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