What is a personal user guide?
A personal user guide is a brief user manual for a person. It’s just like the kind that comes with a coffee machine or a vacuum cleaner.
It can help you to get to know each other better, build a good relationship and get a lot done faster. Both at work and in your private life.
Let’s shorten your learning curves and move forward playing to your strengths and compensate for your weaknesses. Such a collaboration will help you accomplish extraordinary results and above all a trusting relationship.
Each personal user guide contains five aspects that describe the person. I invented this guide and based it on the Big Five personality model.
To get scientific support and validation, I developed a visual personality test, that forms the basis for your personal user guide, in collaboration with Delft University of Technology's Prof. Dr. Jan Schoormans and Peter van der Bel from CaPPr.
You can invite your peers to read your personal user guide. Everyone you give access to your guide will read it from his or her personality perspective.
It has been said that user guides reduce FOMU, the Fear Of Messing Up potentially great relationships.
If you want to read more in-depth information please read this article about the launch. And please check the privacy policy, too.
References:
- Howard, P.J. (2014). The owner’s manual of the brain
- Nettle, D. (2007). Personality
- Howard, P.J. & Howard, J.M. (2000). Personality at work