Move beyond workplace conflicts. Getting the job done is one thing, getting it done together is another! Authors offer a new perspective on how to solve the disruptive friction that arises between people in the workplace. -- HR Magazine, October 1996 Especially valuable to managers who are responsible for helping individuals and groups to work together. -- Career Planning & Adult Development Journal, Winte 1997-98 Most accessible and entertaining. -- Bulletin of Psychological Type, Summer 1997 Real gift is that you can gain more precious morsels of information about what makes you tick, deep-down. -- Apparel Industry Magazine, December 1996 Tackle frustrating meetings, deadbeat teams, and changing work demands with a title which covers common workplace conflicts and barriers to getting jobs done. Learn to work together by understanding complimentary personality traits and their powers of association, and by using this book to facilitate more effective work relationships within teams and between individuals. -- Midwest Book Review Working Together But It's Not Working? * You sit in endless meetings without a chance to participate because your colleagues always seem to dominate the discussion. * Your team is supposed to be solving a problem, but your co-workers keep getting sidetracked onto irrelevant issues. * You are diligently working to meet next week's deadline, but your boss keeps generating new plans, changing the entire project once again. While workplace conflicts such as these are common, there are better ways to get the job done. WORK IT OUT uncovers the mysteries of how best to work together. Using a mystery theme to uncover how different personalities operate, personality type experts Sandra Hirsh and Jane Kise demonstrate the effects of different personalities at work and how to use this understanding to facilitate more effective work relationships, whether with co-workers, the boss, your team, or subordinates. Especially valuable for any manager responsible for helping individuals and groups work together--and who must deal with the fallout when they don't--WORK IT OUT will help you identify the strengths of employees, recognize areas of potential conflict, and bridge the gap when personality differences arise. Sandra Krebs Hirsh is a management consultant and principal of Sandra Hirsh Consulting, specializing in team building and career and management development. Clients include Honeywell, 3M, British Airways, and Eastman Kodak. She is the author of numerous training materials and publications, including the bestselling LIFETYPES. Jane A.G. Kise is a management consultant in team building and strategic planning, and is coauthor with Hirsh of LIFEKEYS.