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A personal user guide shows how you communicate, collaborate, and deal with stress, feedback, and change.

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Personal user guide

See how personality shapes communication and collaboration at work

Compare personality profiles at work to see where you naturally align and where extra coordination helps.

2 profilesyou compare across the same five personality dimensions
5 dimensionsshow you overlap, distance and discussion points for each dimension
Personal User GuidePersonal user guide
Ryan Baker + Sophie MartinPersonal user guide · Live comparison
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OppositesSimilar
ConventionalProgressive
FlexibleFocused
QuietDominant
CompetitiveCompassionate
UndisturbableSensitive

Highlights & comments

Save what truly matters at work

Capture exactly which passages, agreements and points of attention matter at work, with private highlights and notes in context.

Privateonly you can see your highlights and comments.
In contextyour highlights and comments stay attached to the exact passage they refer to.
Personal User GuideHighlights & comments
Personal guide for Jack DavisCollaboration and communication

Jack works best with clear context and room to think before responding.

So make concrete agreements about ownership, planning and the desired outcome.

Follow up on this in our next one-on-one.

Transformations

Paid feature

Make difficult messages land better at work

Adapt a difficult message at work to one person's or the whole group's personality, so it lands better.

1 creditper personal transformation.
3 creditsper team transformation.
Personal User GuideTransformations
Make a message less intense for EmmaEmma is emotional.

Prompt

You keep missing agreements and it is frustrating.
84/2000
CancelTransform (1 credit)
Original

You keep missing agreements and it is frustrating.

Transformed

Can we align clear agreements so we both know what is expected and when?

You have 4 transformations leftHistory
Input, output and history in one flow

Team guide

Paid feature

See where personalities clash or reinforce each other at work

Bring personalities, differences and points of attention together at work, so you can immediately see where alignment is needed.

5 dimensionsshow you each member’s position and your team’s spread.
2 perspectivesgive you the team spread and individual positions in one view.
Personal User GuideTeam guide
Team guide of Demo TeamDemo Team
DistinctAligned
ConventionalProgressive
FlexibleFocused
QuietDominant
CompetitiveCompassionate
UndisturbableSensitive

4 members

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PDF export

Paid feature

Use a polished PDF wherever you need your guide at work

Export the guides and Gap views that matter at work as clear PDFs that are easy to print for preparation, conversations or sharing afterwards.

3 document typesexport personal guides, team guides and Gap views in the same clear layout.
1 clicktakes you from the live guide to a shareable, print-ready PDF.
Personal User GuidePDF export
Personal User Guide
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Personal user guideGuide for Jack Davis
How to work with me

A practical overview of communication, collaboration and behaviour under pressure.

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Risk analysis

Paid feature

Recognise when behaviour goes too far under pressure at work

Recognise which behaviour may become less flexible under pressure at work, both overall and for each personality dimension.

7 zonesshow the progression from low to present and high risk.
Overall + 5one total view and an explanation for each team member’s dimensions.
Personal User GuideRisk analysis
Risk analysis for Sophie MartinCoach view · behaviour under pressure
Overall riskHigh risk
ConventionalLow riskProgressive
FlexibleLow riskFocused
QuietHigh riskDominant
CompetitiveLow riskCompassionate
UndisturbableLow riskSensitive

Assessments

Paid feature

Use a personality assessment to understand new dynamics at work

Invite new people at work to a secure assessment and immediately see how their personality fits.

1 linklets you invite candidates without requiring an account or team access.
7 daysduring which you can use the personal assessment link.
Personal User GuideAssessments
Candidate assessmentFor the Growth Team
Valid for 7 days
Candidate
First nameLast nameEnter one or more email addresses...
Invite
After completionCandidate visible in team context

Use the results as a starting point for selection, onboarding, or a deeper conversation.

Gap view

Paid feature

Turn differences into practical conversations at work

Compare two people at work from a neutral perspective and turn similarities and differences into practical agreements.

2 peopleyou compare without making either person’s perspective the default.
5 dimensionsshow you distance, overlap and practical coaching questions.
Personal User GuideGap view
Gap view: Ryan and SophieSee where two team members align, complement each other, or may misunderstand one another — without making either person's perspective the default.
Demo Team
First team member
Ryan Baker
Second team member
Sophie Martin
OppositesSimilar
Ryan and Sophie are clearly different. That does not have to be a problem: their styles can be complementary. Your task is to surface where their assumptions diverge and turn those insights into practical working agreements.
Ryan is undisturbable, Sophie is sensitive
UndisturbableSensitive
Questions you could ask:

How do you recognize the difference between Ryan's stress response and Sophie's?

Research on working together

Good collaboration is a business issue

Three external research reports show why clear communication, engagement and early alignment deserve attention.

23%

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 · 2024
57%

of 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 · 2023
44%

of 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 · 2025

These 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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Work becomes a lot less frustrating and a lot more productive when you understand how your coworkers operate. With Personal User Guide, you can read someone’s personality guide as if it were their manual. You see how they prefer to communicate, how they handle pressure, what energizes them, and what might cause friction.

By comparing their guide to your own, you get a clear view of your natural collaboration style and where challenges may arise. No more second-guessing, talking past each other, or wasting energy on misalignment. Instead, you gain instant insight into who your teammates really are and how to work together in a way that works for everyone.

Whether you’re onboarding someone new or improving an existing team dynamic, Personal User Guide helps you collaborate with empathy, clarity, and trust.