Maximize Your Team’s Potential with Linda Goldfarb

The truth is, we can’t succeed alone. We must interact with editors, designers, publishers, and others. Once our work is in print, we connect with marketers, readers, and the public. Once you identify your personality, you can discover how helpful it is to know the personality of your event planner, publisher, and others you work with.

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Personality Secrets to Build a Better Team

by Linda Gilden@LindaGilden in Leading Hearts Magazine

In a Harvard Business Review article January 25, 2017, called “Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills” by Dave Winsborough and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, the authors mention a study done by Google in 2016 in which Google said they had found “the secret ingredients for the perfect team.”

At Google “people are preselected on the basis of their personality (or ‘Googliness’).” Many large organizations use some type of personality assessment to assist in hiring, promoting and matching individuals with certain jobs and departments.

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