Whether it’s Top Gear, Sex and the City or Desperate Housewives, many of our favourite TV programmes have one thing in common - ‘teams’ of four main characters each with a very distinct personality – and they’re all different! In real life, outcomes of teamwork and the keys to successful relationships whether in a large organisation or a team of two depend on a basic understanding of our differences.

Diversity, after all is one of our society’s current concerns. Millions of pounds are poured into training professionals in issues of age, gender, race and religion in an attempt to make us all more tolerant and less judgemental of each other. Yet it seems that with all the talk of diversity, one of the most important areas is overlooked, differences in personality.

Way back as far as 460 BC, ‘personality’ was big business. Hippocrates realised that people could be identified into four specific groups by their behaviours and throughout history philosophers and psychologists have agreed that people can be divided into four basic personality types. Carl Jung’s work in the 1920’s is the basis of much of what is used today in many of the different personality profiling tools available.

The building blocks of the universe are contained in the elements- earth, water, wind and fire, so what better words to help us understand the elemental make up of our own personalities and those of our teams, whether in the workplace or the family

We use the unique PEP™ profile which gives detailed individual profiles, provides the option for a matrix between any two people as well as team comparison charts which has great benefits for relationship issues in the workplace. Is some perceived ‘bullying’ in the workplace actually one personality type reacting to what it misunderstands in another? Dysfunctional teams have been transformed and others who get on well but seem to lack the ability to achieve all they could, come to realise the need to appreciate others who are different from themselves – and whose traits they may at times find frustrating – but which are essential to bring a balance to the team.

Once each team member understands the elements that best represent their own personality and can see how their own communication style differs from that of others on the team, there will be a new awareness of the hidden strengths of each individual.

PEP™ team development:

• improves communication
• builds bridges of understanding that didn't exist before
• demonstrates the wisdom and importance of differing viewpoints to produce a balanced team
• addresses diversity issues in new and meaningful ways
• assists with leadership development and team coaching
  

PEP™ is...

• Short: quickly taught in a 4-6 hour format, saves time and money.
• Simple: easily understood by everyone.
• Sound: scientifically validated for reliability.
• Spreadable: moves quickly through all levels of an organisation.
• Sticky: will be easily applied after the training session is over.

Understanding yourself and others is the key to effective communication and fulfilment.

Knowing ourselves well is crucial in making informed choices about career, family, and relationships that help make us the best we can be.

There are many personality profile assessments available but how many of us, having spent time and money trying to find out who we are are unable to recall our rating or characteristics within a short time of having completed the assessment, or find it difficult to apply the results in a meaningful way?

Begin by exploring our unique personality profiling tool. We use The Path Elements Profile™ (PEP™) which is a highly effective personality assessment so powerful everyone gets it, remembers it, and uses it! It takes the word pictures of Earth, Fire, Wind and Water and can be taught quickly, applied immediately, and become part of your everyday language within minutes.

The simple PEP™ profile is taken online in your own time and on completion you’ll print out a 13 page assessment that will help you better understand your own unique personality and strengths.

The PEP™ taps into what people already know at some level about themselves and provides new layers of understanding about who they are and what makes them tick.

In addition, our unique 'two-person' matrix can highlight the strengths and challenges in any relationship, whether personal or in the workplace and allow collegues and partners to understand each other better and communicate more effectively.

Contact us to discover how The PEP™ could revolutionise your life, your family and your workplace as you begin to understand both yourself and others better.

We undertook PEP profile training as part of a leadership team evaluation. Ruth guided us through the results process with all it implied for us to consider the roles we play, the ways we work and to celebrate our corporate strengths. Her natural ease of communication, her enthusiasm for this material and her ability to apply positive encouragements to each person combined to produce a profound effect for us all. The ongoing relevance of what emerged that day is of immense value and we cannot commend Ruth and her work too highly (Hazel Gaydon,  East Sussex)