The Birkman Method Your Personality at Work

Whether you're wondering if you are in the right career, looking to change job roles, or trying to reduce conflict and improve relationships at work and at home, you must begin by fully understanding your own interests and needs, and how they drive your ultimate happiness as well as unleash your stress points. Used by millions of people worldwide, The Birkman Method is the only personality-assessment tool that reaches beyond self-described behavior and situational analysis to unravel the DNA underpinning workplace satisfaction and productivity.

The Birkman Method reveals such aspects of your personality as your relationship with authority, communication style, response to incentives, ability to deal with change, and the triggers for stress that can derail you. By explaining how these factors fit together and work off each other, The Birkman Method becomes your guide to a deeper self-awareness that can help you attain more-inspiring leadership, better team harmony, and higher goals for you personally and throughout any organization.

Sharon Birkman Fink is president and CEO of Birkman International, Inc., developer of the Birkman Method. In 2002, she took over as head of the company, founded in 1951 by her father, Dr. Roger Birkman. She lives in Houston, Texas. For more information, please visit www.birkman.com.

Stephanie Capparell is a journalist, author, and filmmaker. She is the coauthor of the international bestseller Shackleton's Way and author of The Real Pepsi Challenge, and is an editor and writer for the Wall Street Journal. She lives in New York City.

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: You Are Here! Taking the Birkman

Chapter Two: Identifying Your Strengths

Chapter Three: The Components

Chapter Four: Esteem and Acceptance

Chapter Five: The Power of Structure

Chapter Six: Authority – A Boss or Just Bossy?

Chapter Seven: Advantage and Activity: Are you in it to win it

Chapter Eight: Empathy and Thought How Your Emotions Can Help or Hurt a Decision

Chapter Nine: Are You a Frustrated Maverick in the Workplace?

Chapter Ten: Challenge—The Wide Angle: How Do I Look?

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

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