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
Compare personality profiles at work to see where you naturally align and where extra coordination helps.
Highlights & comments
Capture exactly which passages, agreements and points of attention matter at work, with private highlights and notes in context.
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 featureAdapt a difficult message at work to one person's or the whole group's personality, so it 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 featureBring personalities, differences and points of attention together at work, so you can immediately see where alignment is needed.
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PDF export
Paid featureExport the guides and Gap views that matter at work as clear PDFs that are easy to print for preparation, conversations or sharing afterwards.
A practical overview of communication, collaboration and behaviour under pressure.
Risk analysis
Paid featureRecognise which behaviour may become less flexible under pressure at work, both overall and for each personality dimension.
Assessments
Paid featureInvite new people at work to a secure assessment and immediately see how their personality fits.
Use the results as a starting point for selection, onboarding, or a deeper conversation.
Gap view
Paid featureCompare two people at work from a neutral perspective and turn similarities and differences into practical agreements.
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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Original research and practical guides about the Big Five, personal user manuals and working together better.
Two conventional people can both favour familiar methods and still disagree. How different routines, unwritten knowledge and shared working agreements become clear.
Read articleCompare 16Personalities and Personal User Guide on models, results, team features and costs, with graphics and data from 2,705 profiles and 24 teams.
Read articleA reasonable person sees several interests and looks for a workable outcome. Use that mediation without leaving boundaries, ownership, or decisions vague.
Read articleWork 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.