How do you recognize personality traits of a natural born leader, and how would you treat a perfectionist?

Knowing the answer to seemingly obscure questions like these, understanding different personality traits, could lead to remarkable personal growth.

Having different personality traits doesn’t really mean that we all fit neatly into boxes.

That would be far too simple because we humans are unique individuals and wonderfully complex beings.

We do, however, all present some basic characteristics which fall into four distinctive categories.

Becoming aware and knowledgeable about the four different personality traits can be a great advantage.

This awareness leads to greater co-operation and far less tension in any encounter with other people, whether it be in our family, social or work environment. It also helps us understand ourselves better.

Naming the different personality traits originates with the Greek doctor, Hippocrates, the father of modern Western medicine, who labelled them Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric and Melancholy, according to some of their characteristics.

Other names that are used to identify the different personality traits are, for example:

Reds, Blues, Greens and Yellows

By far, THE best way to acquire the knowledge and insights into different Personality traits, is through the skill of a master of his art, Jerry Clark.

Sometimes animal names are used to symbolise the particular groups.

Whatever tag they bear, the different personality traits remain the same.

Rarely does anybody fall into one single category.

We usually display qualities from two or more groups with one characteristic that is more dominant. And it’s how we demonstrate this mixture that makes us unique in our own right.

Understanding this aspect governs how we act, and react, to any given situation, how others see us, and it helps us to grow as a person.

A tiny selection of different personality traits that we may exhibit are:

Sanguine

· playful

· energetic

· talkative

Phlegmatic

· placid

· family orientated

· good listener

Choleric

· natural born leader

· decisive

· domineering

Melancholy

· methodical

· perfectionist

· systems orientated

Studying the different personality traits in detail, will reveal their strengths and weaknesses, how the groups interact with themselves and other groups, their tempraments and how to figure out our own, and other people’s, responses to anything that occurs in everyday life.

With this fundamental knowledge, and a little practice, it becomes easy to spot the conduct and mannerisms of people with different personality traits. Recognizing characteristics in those you deal with every day, will help you get a lot more support and a lot less conflict, because you know how to communicate with them

You’ll know, for instance:

* who wants all the information, in detail, in writing.

* Who would like you to call with information, and would be happy if you threw in the odd joke.

* Who is a social butterfly!

* Who likes to talk about the family, and who thinks it’s none of your business.

* Who wants accurate facts, not too much routine chat,and who do you have to virtually gag, so that you can get things done.

We all have different personality traits, whether we like it or not.

We can learn a lot more about our own, and everyone else’s different personality traits from books and CD’s and by studying people in everyday life.

Interaction with other people, with their different personality traits, is unavoidable, so this extra awareness will be a tremendous advantage, and communication will become easier and less strained.

With knowledge comes understanding, from which we gain power. How will you exercise this new found power?

There are many books and CD’s on this subject, so many people recognize the advantages and benefits of this information already.

You could become the one that everybody thinks is great, because you know the secret… you understand the different personality traits.