Self Awareness: The Big 5 Personality Traits

Great leaders have high levels of self awareness. One element of self awareness is a good understanding of how human beings differ in terms of personality. The big 5 personality traits can be remembered with the acronym OCEAN. OCEAN Trait descriptions and impact on job performance. Openness, inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious; Openness is positively related to proactivity at the … Read more

Understanding Personality: The 12 Jungian Archetypes

This post is part of the series: Jung for Leaders — The Inner Work of Moving People to ActionAlso in this series: The 12 Jungian Archetypes | A Deep Dive into Jungian Archetypes | Jung’s 5 Pillars of a Happy Life Popular Blog Posts The term “archetype” means original pattern in ancient Greek. Jung used the concept of archetype in his theory … Read more