Communication Success with Four Personality Types

Communication Success with

Four Personality Types

Reference Guide

Preston Ni, M.S.B.A.

Professor of Communication Studies



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Table of Contents

Introduction

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Part I: Communication Success with Four Personality Types

The Four Personality Types

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The Helpful Nurturers

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Communication Success with Nurturers

10

The Creative Idealists

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Communication Success with Idealists

14

The Cerebral Realists

17

Communication Success with Realists

18

The Strategic Directors

21

Communication Success with Directors

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Part II: Additional Skills and Strategies for the Four Personality Types

Are You Too Nice? Seven Ways to Gain Appreciation

& Respect

27

Seven Ways to Say ¡°No¡± and Keep Good Relations

32

How to Be Ultra Productive

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How to Find Your Best Career & Get Paid Doing What

You Love

36

Are You a Poor Communicator? How to Improve

39

Five Keys to Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence

43

References

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¡°The secret to success is to understand the point of

view of others."

¡ª Henry Ford

¡°Know yourself, know others. One hundred battles, one

hundred victories.¡±

¡ª Chinese proverb

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