This document discusses different personality types and how understanding your own personality can help you understand others. It outlines four main personality types: Popular Sanguine, Perfect Melancholy, Powerful Choleric, and Peaceful Phlegmatic. For each type, it describes typical emotions, behaviors at work and in relationships, strengths, weaknesses, and emotional needs. The document suggests people can overcome weaknesses by playing to their strengths, such as Sanguines volunteering and making friends and Melancholies being organized. It emphasizes understanding personality types rather than labels and getting the best from everyone.

2. HOW TO UNDERSTAND
OTHERS BY
UNDERSTANDING
YOURSELF
PLUSPersonalitySANGUINE . MELANCHOLY . CHOLERIC . PHLEGMATIC

3. M B T I ( M Y E R S & B R I G G S T Y P E I N D I C A T O R )

4. D I S C P E R S O N A L I T Y

5. PLUSPersonality

6. Why do we need to know about our self?
When we know who we are and why we act the way we do,
we can begin to understand our inner selves, improve our
personalities, and learn to get along with others

7. 7

8. Learning Objectives:
1. Learners will be able to explain accurately four types of personality in
Personality Plus
2. Learner understand and able to explain own and people’s personality
strengths and weaknesses

9. PERSONALITY
TEST
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11. Have fun with Popular Sanguine
Get serious with Perfect Melancholy
Get charged with Powerful Choleric
Relax with Peaceful Phlegmatic

12. Let’s have fun with
Popular Sanguine
The Extrovert . The Talker. The Optimist

13. Popular Sanguine Emotions
• Appealing personality
• Talkative, storyteller
• Sincere at heart
• Good sense of humour
• Memory for colour
• Physically holds on to listener
• Emotional and demonstrative
• Enthusiastic and expressive
• Cheerful and bubbly
• Good on stage
• Curious
• Wide-eyed and innocent
• Volunteer for job
• Changeable disposition
• Creative and colourful
• Make friends easily

14. At Work
• Volunteer for jobs
• Thinks up new activities
• Looks great on the surface
• Creative and colourful
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• Starts in a flashy way
• Inspires others to join
• Charms others to work
As Parents
• Makes home fun
• Is liked by children’s friends
• Turns disaster into humour
• Is the circus master
As Friend
• Makes friends easily
• Loves people
• Thrives on compliments
• Seems exciting
• Envied by others
• Doesn’t hold grudges
• Apologizes quickly
• Prevents dull moments
• Likes spontaneous
activities

15. Great ability to carry on a colourful
conversation is a plus envied by others;
but
carried to extremes …
constantly talking, monopolizing,
interrupting and straying too far
from the truth.
Popular Sanguine
Get depressed when…..
Feeling unloved or overwhelmed by work

16. Emotional Needs
Approval Attention
Affection Fun

17. Let’s get organised with
Perfect Melancholy
The Introvert . The Thinker. The Pessimist

18. Perfect Melancholy Emotions
• Orderly and organized
• Perfectionist
• Economical
• Self-sacrificing
• Conscientious
• Idealistic
• Artistic
• Deep and thoughtful
• Analytical
• Serious and purposeful
• Genius and intellectual
• Likes list, charts, graphs, figures
• Detail conscious

19. At Work
• Schedule oriented
• Perfectionist, high standards
• Detail conscious
• Persistent and thorough
• Orderly and organized
• Neat and tidy
• Economical
• Sees the problems
• Finds creative solutions
• Needs to finish what is
started
• Likes charts, graphs, figures,
lists
As Parents
• Sets high standards
• Wants everything done right
• Keeps home in good order
• Picks up after children
• Sacrifices own will for others
• Encourages scholarship and
talent
As Friend
• Makes friends cautiously
• Content to stay in background
• Avoids causing attention
• Faithful and devoted
• Will listen to complaints
• Can solve others’ problems
• Deep concern for other
people
• Moved to tears with
compassion
• Seeks ideal mate

20. Deep analytical thinking is a genius trait,
much respected;
but
carried to extremes…
becomes brooding and depressed.
Perfect Melancholy
Get depressed when…..
No one understands them

21. Emotional Needs
Sensitivity Support
Space Silence

22. Let’s get moving with
Powerful Choleric
The Extrovert . The Doer. The Optimist

23. Powerful Choleric Emotions
• Goal oriented
• Unemotional
• Delegates work
• Is usually right
• Can run anything
• Independent
• Born leader
• Dynamic and active
• Compulsive need for change
• Must correct wrongs
• Strong willed and decisive
• Confidence

24. At Work
• Goal oriented
• Sees the whole picture
• Organize well
• Seeks practical solutions
• Moves quickly to action
• Delegates work
• Insists on production
• Makes the goal
• Stimulates activity
• Thrives on opposition
As Parents
• Exert sound leadership
• Establishes goals
• Motivates family to action
• Knows the right answer
• Organizes household
As Friend
• Has little need for friends
• Will work for group activity
• Will lead and organize
• Is usually right
• Excels in emergencies

25. Gift’s for quick, incisive leadership is
desperately needed in every phase of
life today;
but
carried to extremes…
becomes bossy, controlling and
manipulative.
Powerful Choleric
Get depressed when…..
Some part of their life is out of control

26. Emotional Needs
Loyalty
Sense of
control
Appreciation
Credit for
work

27. Let’s relax with
Peaceful Phlegmatic
The Introvert . The Watcher. The Pessimist

28. Peaceful Phlegmatic Emotions
• Quiet but witty
• Sympathetic and kind
• Keeps emotions hidden
• Mediator
• All-purpose person
• Stable
• Low-key personality
• Easygoing and relaxed
• Calm and cool
• Patient, well-balanced
• Consistent life
• Good listener

29. At Work
• Competent and steady
• Peaceful and agreeable
• Has administrative ability
• Mediates problems
• Avoids conflicts
• Good under pressure
• Finds the easy way
As Parents
• Makes a good parent
• Takes time for the children
• Is not in a hurry
• Can take the good with the bad
• Doesn’t get upset easily
As Friend
• Easy to get along with
• Has many friends
• Pleasant and enjoyable
• Inoffensive
• Good listener
• Dry sense of humor
• Enjoys watching people
• Has compassion and
concern

30. Easy going nature is an admirable
combination that makes him the favourite
of any group;
but
Carried to extremes...
Doesn’t care about doing anything and
is indifferent and indecisive.
Peaceful Phlegmatic
Get depressed when…..
No one values them or they get overwhelmed

31. Emotional Needs
Peace &
Quiet
Feeling of
worth
Lack of
stress
Respect
from co-
workers

33. Perfect Melancholy
Powerful Choleric
Popular Sanguine

34. A Way to Overcome
Personal weaknesses
Sanguine . Melancholy . Choleric . Phlegmatic

35. Let’s organise Popular Sanguine
Let’s cheer up Perfect Melancholy
Let’s tone down Powerful Choleric
Let’s motivate Peaceful Phlegmatic
Strengthening Our Personality

36. Working with the Personalities
Quick tips how to work with…
Sanguine . Melancholy . Choleric . Phlegmatic

37. Popular Sanguine
Perfect Melancholy
Powerful Choleric
Peaceful Phlegmatic
Howto helpthem atwork?
• Easily distracted
• Poor memory
• Don’t pay attention to
details
• Are not very goal-oriented
• Look for credit
• Being moody and
depressed
• Aiming too high
• Critical of others
• Being too introspective
• Hesitant to start project
• Too bossy
• Quick-tempered
• Bored by trivia
• Not complimentary
• Enjoy arguments
• Fearful and worried
• Indecisive
• Prefer to watch rather than
work
• Resisting change
• Keeping emotions bottled up

38. Activity 3

39. Popular Sanguine
Perfect Melancholy
Powerful Choleric
Peaceful Phlegmatic
Correcting your weakness and turn them into strength
• Talk too much
• Self-centered
• Uncultivated memories
• Easily depressed
• Procastinate
• Unrealistic demands on
others
• Right but unpopular
• Must be in control
• Compulsive workers
• Resist change
• Seem to be lazy
• Wishy-washy

40. Popular Sanguines are best
• Ensuring the group has fun
• Charming others to work
• Volunteering for job
• Making friends easily
Perfect Melancholies are best
• Being deep and thoughtful
• Economical
• Being loyal
• Being organized, neat and
tidy
Powerful Choleric are best
• Being dynamic and active and
compulsive need for change
• Being independent and self-
sufficient
• Exuding confidence
• Making the goal
Peaceful Phlegmatic are best
• Mediating problem
• Having many friends
• Being a capable
administrator
• Making sure the group
comfortable
Getting the Best from Everyone

43. Let’s move forward!!!
In whatever way you come out on the Personality Profile,
remember it is not the label
but
the understandingof your own and people’s personality strengths and
weaknesses that is important.

44. Nur Aimie binti Mohd Azlan | nuraimie@intanbk.intan.my | 03-2084 7335