Personality Assessment Training: Bully For You

Whew! Graduation day! We made it. No more all-night study sessions. No more exams. No more bullies – or so we thought. For many of us, the hardships of school life followed us to work. Yes, miraculously [and ironically], many of the same character-types that tormented us in school have materialized at our jobs. Unfortunately, there’s no graduation from real life. Fortunately, personality assessment training can make coping with daily work life a lot easier.

What Makes a Bully a Bully?

A person’s behavior toward you isn’t so much a reflection on you or your flaws and shortcomings. In many ways, it’s an X-ray of the person’s character. Learning how to read that X-ray may help you understand and deal with the person more effectively.
While their talents and skills may be readily apparent, their values, beliefs, and desires – what’s at the core of their personality – may be hidden or difficult to interpret.

Personality Assessment Training

Different doesn’t have to be synonymous with difficult. A person who’s chronically confrontational and defensive may be venting their frustration because they are intensively competitive, results-driven and obsessive about things moving along briskly. They may like quick decisions and quick results, and they can’t handle it when one of their teammates seems to slow things down.

He may overstep his authority and farm out tasks to others, demand results to abrasively, and generally lack the tact to communicate graciously with his subordinates or even his own managers.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could see beyond all that acrimonious behavior and learn how to deal with this character? Even better, wouldn’t it be great if you had the ability to relate to this colleague so that you could help him to better understand himself and what makes him tick? You might very well transform a bully into an ally.

No, this is not an exhortation for you to enroll in graduate school and become a psychologist. It’s a word of encouragement that with well-structured personality assessment training, you may grow in your understanding of combative or challenging colleagues, and in the process, you may understand and accept yourself more as well.