People! People Everywhere! A Chronicle of how we act & interact.
I have been studying a behavioral inventory system created by Robert Bolton that focuses on four main behavioral styles. Bolton's book, "People Styles at Work: And Beyond", is a simple tool that can be used simply and easily to identify ones traits. However, once one delves deeper into the behavioral system, it can provide a more complex understanding of ones deeper tendencies. To summarize how the system works I have provided a graph: To get started, you fill out a simple questionnaire that gathers "tally" marks, afterwards the tally's are added down the columns to get four totals, these totals will act as coordinates for Bolton's "Assertiveness/Responsiveness" chart. Once "moving yourself" according to the coordinates, you will be placed into one of four categories, Analytical, Driver, Amiable, or Expressive. Once you have placed yourself in a quadrant, Bolton's book goes into detail describing traits, tendencies, and common