What do you do when you have a group of business people that have different personalities?  Personality is really what makes the world go around and keeps life interesting.  I believe the best way to interact with the varied people-types is to understand this basic reality and lack of this understanding is proof of another personality trait – immaturity.

How do you handle someone who has the groups best interest in mind, gets really excited by new ideas and wants to take the ball and run with it?  Do you allow this person to become overwhelmed by being over-worked or do you step in and offer your services in your specific area of expertise?

What do you do with the “step-back” people who are easily frustrated by new ideas and attempt to avoid confrontation but still expect to have the task done to their liking?  What about the “associators”?  The one’s that want to be “involved” but never take on any responsibilities?  How do you handle the one’s that will point out the short-comings of others in order to turn them against one another?

Is there any hope for a group of people with these personality traits to work together successfully?

Every single person has admirable qualities along with the bad.  It’s just the way God made us.  Every one of us needs to strive to improve our shortcomings in order to make ourselves a better  person.

Please share your secrets to dealing with the vast personality-types that you come across during your day.  Do you have specific stories to share?  Post them here.  Have you had someone point our your personality defect?  How did you deal with it?  What did you do to try and overcome this issue?