higher profitability among teams in the top quartile for employee engagement.
Median difference from the bottom quartile in a meta-analysis of 183,806 business and work units.
Gallup Q12 meta-analysis · 2024A personal user guide shows how you communicate, collaborate, and deal with stress, feedback, and change.
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Personal user guide
Your personal user guide shows you how you can best interact and collaborate with the other person, based on your personality.
Highlights & comments
Select text in a guide, highlight important passages and add private comments exactly where they are relevant.
Jack works best with clear context and room to think before responding.
So make concrete agreements about ownership, planning and the desired outcome.
Transformations
Paid featureWith transformations, you adapt text to one receiver's personality or an entire team's profile so your message lands better.
Prompt
You keep missing agreements and it is frustrating.
Can we align clear agreements so we both know what is expected and when?
Team guide
Paid featureYour team guide brings personalities, differences and points of attention together, so you immediately know where alignment is needed.
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Risk analysis
Paid featureRisk analysis helps coaches and team leads recognise which behaviour may become less flexible under pressure, overall and for each area.
Assessments
Paid featureSend candidates a secure assessment link and see how their personality fits the team as soon as they finish.
Use the results as a starting point for selection, onboarding, or a deeper conversation.
Gap view
Paid featureIn Gap view, you compare two people from a neutral team perspective. This helps you discuss alignment, complementarity and possible misunderstandings without choosing sides.
How do you recognize the difference between Ryan's stress response and Sophie's?
Research on teams
Three large studies show that engagement, communication quality and focused team interventions are associated with better outcomes.
higher profitability among teams in the top quartile for employee engagement.
Median difference from the bottom quartile in a meta-analysis of 183,806 business and work units.
Gallup Q12 meta-analysis · 2024effect sizes showed that communication quality was more strongly related to team performance than communication frequency.
Meta-analysis covering 9,702 participants and both cognitive and action-oriented team tasks.
Marlow et al. meta-analysis · 2018controlled comparisons found that teamwork training improved both teamwork and team performance.
Systematic review of 51 articles and 8,439 participants across health care, aviation, the military, education and other settings.
Lacerenza et al. meta-analysis · 2017These studies did not evaluate Personal User Guide and do not prove a product effect. They provide context for engagement, clear communication and deliberately improving collaboration.
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Original research and practical guides about personality, work and collaboration.
What agreeableness measures, what 2,704 profiles reveal and how competitive, reasonable and compassionate people can collaborate better.
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Read articleA personal user guide is a short guide to understanding a person, similar to the manual for a coffee machine or a vacuum cleaner.
It can help you get to know each other better, build a strong relationship, and get things done much more efficiently, both at work and in your personal life.
It allows you to shorten learning curves, amplify strengths, and compensate for weaknesses. This kind of collaboration can lead to exceptional results and, above all, strengthen mutual trust.
The personal user manual covers five key aspects of the person, based on the Big Five personality model.