Compatibility/Work
Colleagues
Colleagues rarely choose each other, yet they share deadlines, decisions and credit. Differences that would grate at home can be an asset at work, as long as the work is split well.
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What we look at as colleagues
Four areas, each read from one scale, then how you handle pressure. How the gauge works
Structure J/P
Deadlines and planning
When work gets planned, started and finished.
Each point between your scores costs 1.25 points
Decisions T/F
Feedback and disagreement
How you critique each other's work and settle disputes.
Each point between your scores costs 1 point
Perception N/S
Ideas and details
Whether you start from the big picture or the specifics.
Each point between your scores costs 1 point
Energy E/I
Working style
Talking things through or thinking them through: meetings or messages.
Each point between your scores costs 0.5 points
Composure
Under pressure
How you handle crunch time together, from both Composure scores.
Shown separately, not part of the fit
What the research says
Feeling that you fit with your coworkers is linked more to liking a job and staying in it than to doing it well (Kristof-Brown et al., 2005). Teams tend to perform better when their members are, on average, more conscientious and agreeable (Bell, 2007). At work, different styles are rarely the problem; missing goodwill and follow-through are.
- Kristof-Brown, A. L., Zimmerman, R. D., and Johnson, E. C. (2005). Consequences of individuals' fit at work: A meta-analysis of person-job, person-organization, person-group, and person-supervisor fit. Personnel Psychology, 58(2), 281-342.
- Bell, S. T. (2007). Deep-level composition variables as predictors of team performance: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(3), 595-615.
Other settings
Every setting reads the same five scores through the areas that matter there.
Love and friendship
Partners
Dating, living together or married: how two styles share a life.
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Love and friendship
Friends
What you do together, what you talk about and how you show up.
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Family
Parent and child
What a child needs, what a parent naturally gives, and where they meet.
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Family
Siblings
Growing up side by side, and staying close as adults.
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Work
Manager and team member
Direction, check-ins, feedback and room to work.
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