Careers Library

Personal Awareness

In this section you’ll find books which will help you to self-reflect; we have several books on Myers Briggs’ personality types which have been grouped together here.

Personality Types

Psycho-Geometrics - How to use Geometric Psychology to Influence People
Authors: DELLINGER Susan
Publisher: Prentice Hall 1989
ISBN: 0-13-732009-4
Library Reference Number: PA/PB204/DELL
Dr. Dellinger explains not only how to determine your own personality type, she reveals how to use geometric psychology to identify the beliefs, values and attitudes of any other person you meet.

Life Types - Understand Yourself and Make the Most of Who You Are
Authors: KREBS HIRSH Sandra, KUMMEROW Jean
Publisher: Warner Books 1989
ISBN: 0 446 38823 8
Library Ref Number: PA/PB062/KRE
From the Myers Briggs Types Series…experts help you develop a thorough psychological self-portrait: to know your strengths and tendencies, overcome your weaknesses, and understand the people in your life better.

Type Talk - The 16 personality types that determine how we live, love and work
Authors: KROEGER Otto, THUESEN Janet M
Publisher: Dell Trade / Tilden Press 1989
ISBN: 0 440 50704 9
Library Reference Number: PA/PB063/KRO
From the Myers Briggs Types Series…experts show you how to determine your personality type, using a scientifically validated method. “Type Talk” offers insight into why others behave in the way they do, and why you are the person you are in all aspects of daily life.

Work Types - Understand your work personality - how it helps you and holds you back, and what you can do to understand it
Authors: KUMMEROW Jean M, BARGER Nancy J, KIRBY Linda K
Publisher: Warner Books 1997
ISBN: 0 446 67217 3
Library Reference Number: PA/PB066/KUM
From the Myers Briggs Types Series…experts help you discover your work style and strengths in the workplace and use them to improve communications, capitalize on teamwork, reduce stress, and find the best time management approach for you.

Bringing out the best in yourself at work – how to use the ENNEAGRAM system for success
Authors: LAPID-BOGDA ginger
Publisher: McGraw Hill 2004
ISBN: 0-07-143960-9
Library Reference Number: PA/PB564/LAP
Work better, increase the effectiveness of your teams and build relationships with coworkers. The Enneagram is a popular, proven psychological system for determining personality types as a path for self-improvement. Now, internationally recognised Enneagram teacher and organisational consultant Ginger Lapid-Bogda gives clear, easy to follow instruction for using this powerful tool in the workplace, including techniques for bringing out your strongest leadership skills, improving your weaker areas and preventing and resolving conflict.

People types and Tiger stripes
Authors: LAWRENCE Gordon
Publisher: Center for Applications of Psychological Types 1993
ISBN: 0 93565 216 7
Library Reference Number: PA/PB067/LAW
Lawrence explains how personality “type” shows up in everyday life, especially in learning and teaching. This book includes: understanding type concepts, recognising our own type behaviour, using type to improve teaching and learning, and helping people make the most of the assets of their type.

I'm Not Crazy I'm Just Not You - Secrets to how we can be so alike when we're so different - The real meaning of the sixteen personality types
Authors: PEARMAN Roger R, ALBRITTON Sarah C.
Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing 1997
ISBN: 978 0 89106 096 3
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB064/PEA
Applying the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, this remarkable book, does away with our common misconceptions about what is “normal”. It explains, for instance, why certain people thrive on ambiguity while others want clarity and definition, why some people are friendly and uninhibited while others are restrained and fastidious.

Was That Really Me?- How everyday stress brings out our hidden personality
Authors: QUENK Naomi, MYERS Katharine D.
Publisher: Prentice Hall 1989
ISBN: 0-13-732009-4
Library Reference Number: PA/PB204/DELL
Quenk has provided the next step in applying Jung’s model of development in healthy personalities. That step is to understand, accept and learn to handle our hidden personality responsibly. Quenk has given us a way to understand this part of ourselves as well as a practical guide for turning what appears to be a negative into a positive awareness that enhances our growth and effectiveness.

Personal Development

Games people play
Author: BERNE Eric
Publisher: Corgi books  1964
ISBN: 0 14 002768 8
Library Reference Number: PA/PB535/BER
Didn’t you know you played games? All the time? Among them are: Life games (“Alcoholic”), Marital games (“The frigid woman”), Sexual games (Rapo), Party games (“Ain’t it awful”), Underworld games (“cops and robbers”), Consulting room games (“I am only trying to help you”) and Good games (“Homely sage”). Recognised as a classic work of its kind by professional, Games People Play is nevertheless very accessible to the general reader. It is a wise, original, witty and very sensible analysis of the “games” we play in order to live with one another – and with ourselves.

What do you say after you say hello?
Author: BERNE Eric
Publisher: Corgi books  1974
ISBN: 0 552 09806 X
Library Reference Number: PA/PB536/BER
…explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring.. Eric Berne reveals how everyone’s life follows a predetermined script – a script they compose for themselves in early childhood. The script may be a sad one, it may be a successful on; it decides how a person will relate to his colleagues, what sort of person he will marry, how many children he will have, and even what sort of bed he will die in. What do you say after you say hello? Demonstrates how each life script gets written, how it works and, more important, how anyone can improvise or change his script to make a happy ending…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Author: COVEY, Stephen R.
Publisher: Franklin Covey  2004
ISBN: 978 0 6848 5839 5
Library Reference Number: PA/PB442/COV
[This book] is recognised as one of the most influential books ever written. [The author] presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, covey reveals a step-by-step framework for living and working based on fundamental principles or natural laws, giving us the security to adapt to change, and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates […]

The Inner Game of Work - Focus, learning, pleasure and mobility in the workplace
Authors: GALLWEY  W. Timothy
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2001
ISBN: 0 375 75817 8
Library Reference Number: PA/PB110/GAL
“The Inner Game of Work” challenges you to re-examine your fundamental motivations for going to work in the morning and your definitions of work once you’re there. You will be able to look at work in a whole new way.

Finding Square Holes - Discover who you really are and find the perfect career
Authors: HOUGHTON Anita
Publisher: Crown House 2005
ISBN: 978-1-90442-484-X
Library Reference Number: PA/PB011/HOU
Are you in a fix in your career, either trying to decide what to do or disgruntled with your current job? Filled with anecdotes, insights and exercises, Finding Square Holes lays the foundations needed to take control of your career. Combining techniques from personal development, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Myers-Briggs model of personality, this book’s unique approach to career development is based on raising your self-awareness. This new self-knowledge is used to guide you through a highly practical and self-motivating process of research, networking and goal-setting. This book works on the premise that you, and only you, are the best judge of what is good for you.

Know Yourself - The Individuals Guide to Career Development in Healthcare
Authors: HOUGHTON Anita
Publisher: Radcliffe 2005
ISBN: 1-85775-714-9
Library Reference Number: PA/PB302/HOU
A user-friendly guide to help health professionals take control of their careers. The book focuses on abilities, enjoyment and personal satisfaction in the workplace, then based on this new-found knowledge, offers advice on practical ways forward.

Who moved my cheese? - An Amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life
Authors: JOHNSON Spencer
Publisher: Vermillion 1999
ISBN: 978 00918 16971
Library Reference Number: PA/PB108/JOH
A simple parable that reveals profound truths, cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life. Dr. Johnson will show you how to; Anticipate change, adapt to change quickly, enjoy change, and be ready to change quickly again and again.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming for dummies
Authors: READY Romilla, BURTON Kate
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ltd 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-97843-6
Library Reference Number: PA/PB563/REA
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) provides essential building blocks for discovering how people think and manage their emotional states. This practical guide shows you how to unwrap core NLP skills such as rapport building and mirroring techniques and enable you to use them to achieve personal and professional fulfilment. So whether you want to build your self-confidence, communicate effectively or make life-changing decisions, this book gives you the tools you need to succeed. Open this book and find: the 12 NLP assumptions – and what they mean for you, how to create a formula for success, tips on becoming a more confident presenter and communicator, techniques for making and breaking rapport with other people, how to grow from past experiences, ways to drive your habits in the right direction, advice on how to ask the right questions, recommended resources to take your learning further.

The Charisma Factor - How to develop your natural leadership ability
Authors: RICHARDSON Robert J, THAYER Katharine
Publisher: Prentice-Hall 1993
ISBN: 0-13-904368-3
Library Reference Number: PA/HC299/RIC
This book breaks down the strategies of past leaders – from the ancient Greeks to Ronald Reagan. The handbook shows you how to develop two vital communication skills, entrainment and emotional management. With these strategies you’ll have the techniques to inspire others with the language of emotion and the power of personal charisma.

The Paradox of Choice - Why more is less
Authors: SCHWARTZ Barry
Publisher: Harper Perennial 2004
ISBN: 978 0 06 000569 6
Library Reference Number: PA/PB232/SCH
Barry Schwartz explains why too much of a good thing has proven detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. He makes the counterintuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers practical steps for how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on the important ones and ignore the rest.

Presence – Emergency profound change in people, organisations and society
Authors: SENGE Peter, SCHARMER C. Otto, JAWORSKI Joseph, FLOWERS Betty Sue
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2005
ISBN: 1 85788 355 1
Library Reference Number: PA/PB537/SEN
...gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide ranging conversations held over a year and a half [the authors] explore their own experiences and those of 150 social and business entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how profound collective change occurs. Their journey of discovery articulates a new way of seeing the world, and of understanding our part in creating it – as it is and as it might be. Radical and hopeful, Presence synthesises leading-edge thinking, first hand knowledge, and ancient wisdom to explore the living fields that connect us to each other, to life more broadly and potentially to what is “seeking to emerge”. Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense and realise new possibilities. Developing these capacities accesses a deeper level of learning that is the key to creating change that serves the whole – ourselves, our organisations and the communities of which we are part.

Eat that frog! - 21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time
Authors: TRACY Brian
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 2004
ISBN: 978 0 340 83504 3
Library Reference Number: PA/PB107/TRA
Cutting to the core of the three vital rules of effective time management: decision, discipline and determination, and details twenty-one practical and do-able steps that will help you stop procrastinating and more of those important tasks done.