Here’s the links and references from my 2023 BSides Las Vegas talk “Management Hacking 102: Personalities, Empathy, and Difficult Conversations”. Here’s the link to the YouTube video of the talk. Thanks for attending! I hope my talk will help you become a great manager and leader!
Personality Types
Enneagram
(Book) Discovering Your Personality Type: The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram
https://www.amazon.com/dp/061821903X?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_MXK6YC59KTYEXPDE8CZV
Official Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator Test
https://tests.enneagraminstitute.com/orders/create#rheti
DISC
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
https://www.myersbriggs.org/
https://www.mbtionline.com/
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-myers-briggs-type-indicator-2795583
(Book) Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
https://www.amazon.com/dp/089106074X?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_F4K990BJPPHJZQMQJP1C
Process Communication Model (PCM)
https://processcommunicationmodel.com/pcm-origins/
The best personality type/leadership training I’ve ever attended
https://ssca.com/workshops/lpmd/
Motivation
McClelland’s Human Motivation Theory
https://www.mindtools.com/aznjntj/mcclellands-human-motivation-theory
Dealing with Change
6 Stages of the Change Cycle
https://changecycle.com/
(Book) The Change Cycle: How People Can Survive and Thrive in Organizational Change
https://www.amazon.com/Change-Cycle-People-Survive-Organizational/dp/1576754987
Empathy
Cyber Empathy Podcast with Andra Zaharia
https://cyberempathy.org
Difficult Conversations
(Book) Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-Matters/dp/0143118447/