Personalities and Team Building

The content for this course is about team building and project management. Understanding personalities is a requirement in order to have successful project management and teamwork. That notion holds especially true in the entertainment field because there are so many creative people. As a talent agent, I must know how to work with different, unique personalities. Personality tests are a fun and engaging way to learn about one’s traits. There are two main personality tests amongst many others. Those two tests are DiSC and Myers-Briggs.

William Marston created the DiSC assessment test. DiSC stands for Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Contentiousness. Each category has a set of traits that it is affiliated with. Dominant personalities are typically more confident, direct, and love challenges. Influencers are good at persuading others and showing a lot of enthusiasm. People in the steadiness category have calm, solid, and dependable personalities. Lastly, contentiousness people like accuracy, are objective, and likes independence. All the person does is answer a series of questions. Then, the scores are tallied and the outcome shows which category the personality falls into. The website says that DiSC is a good assessment for communication, leadership, and team building.

Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Myers created the Myers-Briggs assessment. It consists of 16 personality traits that fall into 4 categories based on studies by C.G. Jung. The four categories are presented in pairs. The first pair is Introversion and Extraversion. Those pairs deal with if someone is outgoing or a recluse. The second pair is Sensing and Intuition. One type pays attention to the physical happenings, while the other pays attention to patterns. Third, the pair is Thinking and Feeling which both deal with how one makes decisions. The fourth pair is Judging and Perceiving. Judgers normally have an organized life, and Perceivers just roll with the punches. Also, Myers-Biggs is a great assessment for team building and leadership.

I think the best thing to do is give one of these assessments to my team. Also, it could be a requirement for any client I take on. I think taking this assessment will help me to be able to be a leader, but also help me interact with my team. This could definitely be incorporated into the table reads for the web series as a first order of business.