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Week 2a Discussion--Personality Types

Week 2a Discussion--Personality Types

Q Please review this Ted Talk on personality types (Links to an external site.). For your initial post, please discuss how we can use the knowledge of different personality types to help manage people. First, make sure to define the Big 5 personality types. What does Professor Little tell us about which kinds of personality types tend to be successful in work. Do different types of people tend to succeed in different ways? How? Can knowledge of personality types help us put people in situations where they can succeed? How? What do you think of Professor Little's point that even though we have some things in common with other people, we're totally unique? What makes us different? Any other thoughts? For your initial post, please reply to this post. For this post, please write 150-250 words. For your reply posts, please write 50-100 words.

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The Big 5 personality types are OCEAN in which the letter O symbolizes open for experiencing new things. Then the letter C symbolizes conscientiousness. The letter E symbolizes Extroversion. The letter A symbolizes individuals who are Agreeable. The letter N symbolizes individuals who are Neurotic. Professor Little tells us that the personality types which are open to experiencing new things and have high levels of conscientiousness tend to be successful in work more than others. This is because there can be courage and innovativeness shown by such individuals.