{"id":55479,"date":"2022-01-01T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=55479"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:04:10","slug":"personality-teamwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/personality-teamwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Personality: The Secret Sauce of Effective Teamwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How does personality influence teamwork? How can you make use of personality typing to build an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/effective-team\/\">effective team<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personality complementarity is a key aspect of effective teamwork. If you want to assemble a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/successful-team\/\">successful team<\/a>, you should identify the personality types of the contenders and match them according to how well they work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is how personality typing can make help you assemble an A-star team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This article is part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/hub\/professional\/work\/team-building-guide\/\">Shortform\u2019s guide to team-building<\/a>. If you like what you read here, there\u2019s plenty more to check out in the guide!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personality and Teamwork<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A key part of working with others is figuring out their personality.&nbsp;Teamwork will flow much more effortlessly if the people on your team complement\u2014not clash\u2014with each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-d93f87d7-0635-4200-94cc-c5ea101026c6\">As a team manager, <strong>you need to<\/strong> <strong>understand the strengths and weaknesses of yourself and other people to get the best results out of everyone. <\/strong>People with complementary strengths do better work together than separately. For example, a visionary and an executor can accomplish more together than each can individually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-24603e1c-20e2-4d37-99e5-4059d81593c0\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Managers who don\u2019t understand people\u2019s thinking styles won\u2019t understand how their team will behave in different situations. This is like a construction foreman not understanding how his equipment works.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instead, see yourself as the conductor of an orchestra. You bring in people at the right moments and in the right balance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-execute-your-vision\/\">execute your vision<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-2224529c-0d47-4f78-a5ef-3a66956d2bec\">How do you actually figure out people\u2019s personality types? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/who-is-ray-dalio\/\">Ray Dalio<\/a> is a big fan of <strong>personality assessments<\/strong>. Here are the assessments he mentions in <em>Principles<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-de93cdf7-94d0-4290-a06f-77be570e58c9\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Myers-Briggs Type Indicator\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This assesses a person\u2019s position along four axes: Introversion\/Extraversion, Sensing\/Intuition, Thinking\/Feeling, and Judging\/Perception.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Big Five\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This assesses a person\u2019s position along five factors: Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Workplace Personality Inventory\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This assesses traits of persistence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maturity-continuum-7-habits\/\">independence<\/a>, stress tolerance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/analytical-way-of-thinking\/\">analytical thinking<\/a>, achievement orientation, and concern for others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Team Dimensions Profile\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This categorizes people into different profiles: creators, refiners, advancers, executors, and flexors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stratified Systems Theory\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This studies the level of complexity at which people perform best. Some work best in transactional roles, focusing on executing daily items and acting in the present. Others work best on high-level strategy over long time horizons and deal with high uncertainty. Others work best in between at a supervisory level, developing the plans that the transactional levels execute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-e392861f-3c8c-478a-a0b6-f37c8433fb64\"><strong>Understanding People With Their Types<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-b14f0f4a-b7b2-4c84-80d9-c4d8a3d6b76e\">Taking the results of a person\u2019s personality assessment, you could then <strong>combine traits to form an archetype about the person<\/strong>. This might include the head-in-the-clouds Visionary, the impractical Artist, the tidy Perfectionist, the Wise Judge, the reliable Bedrock, and so on.&nbsp;But do you actually know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-deal-with-different-personalities-at-work\/\">how to deal with different personalities<\/a> in life? And what does it take to learn how different personalities approach teamwork?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-0196ad58-5162-4bae-8e99-2f5df8833c61\">Ray Dalio takes archetypes a step further with his baseball cards tool, which describes at a glance how a person thinks and behaves. Each baseball card assigns attributes like \u201cconceptual,\u201d \u201ccreative,\u201d and \u201cdetermined.\u201d It also assigns tendencies for behavior, like \u201cholds others accountable\u201d and \u201cpushes through to results.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-b89a7702-db17-4f42-920a-bef3568ed8b6\">Combined with the person\u2019s archetype and personality assessment, the baseball card gives a clear narrative of how the person will behave, and how they fit into a team. For example, a person might have a Myers-Briggs type of S (for Sensing, meaning more concerned with concrete details) and a J (for Judging, meaning more structured and orderly). She might also have an \u201cexecutor\u201d archetype. It\u2019s then clear what this person is best suited for\u2014conscientious execution of detailed plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-c40c8c32-fe50-47fd-acba-8cf7f3f45454\"><strong>Once you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-understand-yourself\/\">understand yourself<\/a> and other people to this level of detail, you can form a dream team of people with complementary strengths.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Psychometric Testing&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalio says that people think and behave in very different ways. Understanding what type of person you are, and what type of people your co-workers are, is critical to working well together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine potential employees\u2019 personality types, Bridgewater has them undergo psychometric assessments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The information allows the firm to determine which jobs are best suited to the applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2018\/10\/30\/myers-briggs-system-evaluate-employees\/\">Eighty-nine of the Fortune 100 companies use the Myers-Briggs test<\/a>, whether during the hiring process or in training. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/7\/15\/5881947\/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless\">experts have disregarded this test<\/a> for several reasons. Apart from being developed by people who had no formal training in psychology, it\u2019s also based on untested theories, produces inconsistent results, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/brain-flapping\/2013\/mar\/19\/myers-briggs-test-unscientific\">relies solely on binary outcomes<\/a>\u2014you\u2019re either introverted <em>or<\/em> extroverted, feeling <em>or<\/em> thinking, nothing in between.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Personality Profiles<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalio found that just knowing employees\u2019 personality types wasn\u2019t enough to form a clear picture of what they were like. People would enter meetings and ignore each other\u2019s personality differences, assuming everyone was equally good at all tasks and assigning jobs to people who didn\u2019t have the right skills. For example, someone who didn\u2019t care about details might be given detail-oriented tasks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make the differences between his people\u2019s skills and abilities more explicit, Dalio started making personality profiles (what he called \u201cbaseball cards\u201d) that showed each person\u2019s strengths and weaknesses, along dimensions like inquisitiveness, outgoingness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/nvc-conflict-resolution\/\">conflict resolution<\/a> ability, and assertiveness. He\u2019d compare data from the personality profiles with the key qualities necessary to different tasks to decide which people were best suited for which jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This level of transparency met with resistance at first because people were afraid that their profile would misrepresent or pigeonhole them. However, over time the Bridgewater team found it freeing because they could be true to themselves and not have to hide their weaknesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: While Dalio believes that showing and discussing weaknesses is important, a study suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/minda-zetlin\/workplace-vulnerability-leaders-lose-authority.html#:~:text=As%20she%20argues%2C%20allowing%20ourselves,re%20in%20a%20leadership%20position.\">being vulnerable can undermine your credibility<\/a> if you\u2019re in a leadership position. So, instead of showing everyone how vulnerable you are, author Bren\u00e9 Brown suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/kimberly-weisul\/leadership-why-the-best-leaders-are-vulnerable.html\">having a small group of people that you can confide in<\/a>. That way, you still reap some benefits of showing weaknesses, but you protect your wider reputation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does personality influence teamwork? 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