Here are the personality types I used in the Pizza article for Redbook.com. I also used these types for the How You Fold Your Laundry Says A Lot About Your Personality.
What Is Your Personality and How To Deal With Conflict Based On The Other Person's Personality . From Patti Wood’s book, “The Conflict Cure.” Copy write 2007
How can you recognize immediately the best way to interact
with someone by reading their body
language. How do you look to others? What does your body language say about you
and how can you read other people and asses their personality?
Your personality affects
your preferred way of moving, standing, gesturing, speaking and other body
language and paralanguage and you can look at someone body language and listen
to their paralanguage to note what what personality style they are using.
Using a simple version of the DISC personality as your
guide, you can quickly figure a match of voice and body language to the four
major personality styles. The DISC is a personality
assessment first developed by William Moulton Marston PHD has used various labels for the four
personality types.
Driver who wants to Get it
Done,
Influencer who want to Get
Appreciated,
Supporter who wants to Get Along and
Careful Corrector who want to Get it
Right.
The Driver Get it Done nonverbal cues body
language is strong and confident. They will bound into the room. They are
directing forceful and commanding. When they make eye contact it will be strong
and direct. Their voice can be loud and forceful and they can talk at a rapid
fire pace. They may interrupt and get loud to get what they want. They love you
to be quick direct and to the point.
The Influencer Get Appreciated – Is a charismatic speaker
one you can easily recognize they are typically charismatic and have a happy
smile There voice can be expressive and engaging to listen to. They often talk
with their hands and sometimes their entire bodies. They give a full range of
facial expressions and you can easily tell how they are feeling. They laugh
easily and are enthusiastic they keep their hearts open as they gesture. They
may move and talk fast and seem to always be having fun. They love for you to
be excited and enthusiastic.
The Careful Corrector Get it
Right.- They love to solve problems and figure things out. While they are the
great “thinkers” their body language may be reserved. They may have their hands
in the pockets or behind their back or have their hand pressed the thumb across
the chink fore finger up as they think. You may not be sure what they are thinking but
they are thinking. Their face is not
super expressive. They may even look a bit critical as your talk. Their voice
is typically kept at a low volume and slow paced and may sound monotone to
other types especially Drives and Influencers. Though they feel things deeply
they may seem to others to be unemotional and monotone. They seem smart and
analytical they know the facts. In my research in the last 30 years on how DISC and other
personalilty indicators are perceived through nonverbal communication and I
find that when people are presenting facts and or reading from notes or reading
slides in a power point ppint
presentation the voice and body language can sound like a Get it Right. In every day business interactions true Get
it Rights are extremely organized they won’t
talk till they have something to say. They will focus on preparing the specific
words and facts. And while they may saying nothing or very little after at the
face to face meeting or durring a conference call they are very likely to send
you a long email or text later, after they have the silence and time to get
what they wanted to say.
Called,
“The Gold Standard of body language
experts by the Washington Post
and credited in the New York Times
with bringing the body language to the national consciousness, Patti Wood is a
true expert. She speaks and consults to
Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Merk, GE, Hewlett Packard, The Kroger
Company, McGraw-Hill, DuPont, Prudential, Chase, Porsche and Deloitte to enhance their,
communication skills. Patti taught
Nonverbal Communication at four universities, and has authored 7 books
including “Success Signals Body Language”.
She
is viewed as a Body Language expert by law enforcement, judges and you see her
regularly on CNN, Fox News and Fox Business Network, the BBC , PBS, Good Morning America, The Discovery
Channel, Regis and Kelly, Bravo, Dr. Drew, Nancy Grace and The History
Channel. You see her quoted every week
in publication such as The Week, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Bloomesberg
Business Week, The Huffington Post,
Oprah, Esquire, , USA today, People, "US" weekly, Fortune and many more.
Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.
