Guest Guide Introduction

The management of human relationships and the appreciation of relating, one temperament to another, is crucial to success in business today.

The Resource Guide provides a model for work relationships, a model designed to serve executives, managers, team leaders, employees, as well as customers and clients, at all levels.

This manual provides resources designed to empower managers and employees to better understand themselves and those with whom they interact. Management uses the PRI system as a personal and organizational map that leads to better teamwork and, therefore, bigger profits.

Recognizing the potential contributions of differing personality styles and identifying their optimal utilization unleashes the potential of each type. Identifying our own preferred personality style is the first step to increasing self awareness, to gaining greater control over our responses, and to improving our capability to initiate effective communications.

Self-knowledge can improve communications in relationships and enable us to get more of what we want and need. It also enables us to more easily capitalize on our existing inner resources and strengths. We increase our capacity to understand and manage ourselves as well as relate to and manage others successfully.

This manual presents strategies for communicating and relating with the four different personality styles. It first identifies the optimal working environment for each style. Then it presents strategies for understanding co-workers/employees, the workplace environment, building positive self esteem in the workplace, motivating job performance, eliciting and insuring cooperation, assessing the degree to which the managers are appropriately meeting the needs of employees, reducing conflict, coping with performance problems and developing team work skills.

These strategies provide managers, team leaders and employees with valuable human relations tools for maximizing communication and improving working relationships. This results in greater success, satisfaction and productivity in the organization.

The Resource Guide brings new excitement and energy to the organization. Managers, co-workers, and employees develop an appreciation for differences and diversity. Learning how to address individuals and respond to others effectively improves relationships and promotes understanding, productivity and success.

The accuracy, ease of application, universal relevance, theoretical base and applied research makes this a powerful communications model to create change.