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
The guide highlights differences in style, shared preferences and concrete opportunities for conversation.
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
With 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
Team guides combine progress, friction and priorities so you know where coaching is needed right away.
4 members
Assessments
Send 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
Gap view compares two people from a neutral team perspective, so a coach or team lead can surface alignment, complementarity and possible misunderstandings without choosing sides.
How do you recognize the difference between Ryan's stress response and Sophie's?
Research on working together
Three external research reports show why clear communication, engagement and early alignment deserve attention.
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 · 2024of time in Microsoft 365 is spent communicating, compared with 43% creating.
Based on anonymized usage patterns over a rolling 28-day period among commercial users.
Microsoft Work Trend Index · 2023of working-age adults in Great Britain experienced conflict at work in the previous year.
Acas survey of 4,558 respondents, conducted in August and September 2025.
Acas workplace conflict study · 2025These studies did not evaluate Personal User Guide and do not prove a product effect. They provide context for the importance of engagement, communication and addressing friction early.
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Gap view helps team leaders and coaches compare two personal user manuals and zoom in on collaboration. Try it with celebrities.
Read articleA flexible person does not work without a plan, but with room to move. Learn how to set goals, deadlines, and replanning moments that suit three different working styles.
Read articleAn analysis of 24 teams and 190 team members: where differences are greatest, where colleagues resemble each other, and which agreements help.
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.