Thread: What's your WW style? Read the definitions first!

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

- personality inventories have superficial appeal because everybody can find, with some wriggling, a tag that makes them happy, but have no real value in predicting behaviour. (Bob might be a bit unhappy with this but...)

Not too unhappy, I've heard this before. And I admitted, and still admit, this one was more tongue-in-cheek than scientific. That's because you can learn more from non-verbal cues than verbal ones. I would be much more confident of my assessments if I could visit your sheds.

1) You are right that people will wiggle to find a tag that pleases their view of themselves--this is not the value.

2) But if you can accurately gauge their actual style it is quite helpful in predicting their reaction to a given situation in a gross sense. This is particularly helpful to salespeople and customer service people who can learn to handle that person using a skillset suited to their style. I have been using it successfully for over 25 years and am still amazed at how accurate it can be.

It's no "wonder system" but it has its uses.

So what are trying to sell us?

Originally Posted by echnidna

So what are trying to sell us?

Stuff that will make ya vegies grow.

Originally Posted by echnidna

So what are trying to sell us?

Cordless drills with protective shrouds and cordless screwdrivers that recharge in 90 seconds.

I'm a temperamental (emphasis on mental) expressive type. Prolly why I have a thousand half completed projects (including the bluddy reno's) around the place.

Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke

Cordless drills with protective shrouds and cordless screwdrivers that recharge in 90 seconds.

Phew thats good,
for a moment I thought you were selling cordless motorcycles

Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke

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if you can accurately gauge their actual style it is quite helpful in predicting their reaction to a given situation in a gross sense. This is particularly helpful to salespeople and customer service people who can learn to handle that person using a skillset suited to their style. I have been using it successfully for over 25 years and am still amazed at how accurate it can be.

Yep. No argument here. But can you see that it is a truism? If you can understand a person's preferences well enough from a multitude of cues, then you can predict their reactions. Being attuned to perceive these cues is what broadly is called having "people skills", emotional intelligence, or what the buzzword happens to be now. Having a person telling you what his/her perception of him/herself is by answering a set of questions can give you useful information to interpret. Whether the method for getting this information is any good is a different issue.