People Chemistry℠

Primary Model Applications

Consensus Building

The proactive development of sound consensus at a project team, organization or societal level is essential to avoiding crises and achieving successful mission results at each level. The development of a successful project or leadership team often goes beyond the objective professional skills and experience of the participants and needs to accommodate key personality attributes to optimize results.

The primary People Chemistry (PC) model is an effective consensus building tool that is simplistic in its application, yet possesses significant depth to accommodate the many contexts in which can be applied. Its simplicity focuses on 6 core personality types (CPT) that are engaged in a specific sequence during the planning phase of a mission to facilitate consensus development. A second phase follows in which a separate sequence of engagement of these participants is used to execute the resulting plan in a manner that facilitates transparency and accountability to the mission’s goal. This balanced approach to planning and execution allows a mission to benefit from the objective strengths of each participant while minimizing the interference that can result from behavioral vulnerabilities.

At its heart, the model applies the above sequences of engagement to better position a mediator personality type to facilitate the balanced cooperation of the 5 other CPT’s in a team or group. Additional behavior attributes inherent in the PC model allow a fine tuning of the above engagement sequences for specific contexts (e.g . Research and Development versus Customer Fulfillment activities in a commercial enterprise).

Organizational Structure

Organizational Structure & Function

The PC model suggests that key roles in organization structure, including Chairman of the Board, President, C level executives, Vice Presidents, etc., benefit from behavioral attributes characteristic of specific CPTs, in order to maintain accurate surveillance of market trends, insightful strategic planning, relevant R&D, and efficient customer fulfillment.

Bonding Preferences & Conflict Resolution

Personal & Professional Relationships

The above 6 CPTs also form the basis of bonding preferences in personal relationships such as friendship, and marriage, as well as in professional relationships, whether they be with superiors, peers or subordinates. They can also provide helpful insights in resolving conflicts in these relationships (e.g. parent-child, sibling, peer etc.), by helping each party develop more realistic expectations of themselves and others based on a better understanding of the legitimate motivations and potential vulnerabilities associated with each personality type and how they can be balanced.

Societal and International Relationships

Societal groups and nations tend to develop social and leadership cultures along the lines of the above CPT’s. Once a leadership culture has been established, its interaction with the leadership cultures of other societal groups also follows the principles of the People Chemistry model. Thus, the PC model can be used as a basis for building censuses between societal groups within nations or between them. In a similar manner, the model can be used to facilitate conflict resolution in these applications, as well.

Education & Career Planning

For education and career planning, the PC model identifies attributes that allow individuals to focus on sectors (private, public, voluntary, academic), as well as roles within an organization (e.g. R&D; versus customer fulfillment) that are likely to provide the best work-life balance.

Model Structure and Other Applications

In its more complete application, the primary PC model consists of 14 behavior attributes arranged in 6 levels to generate a Behavior Attribute Profile (BAP) for a given individual. The above CPTs are derived from 6 combinations of attributes associated with Levels 1 & 2 of the BAP. The remaining 4 levels define attributes pertinent to career preferences, organizational roles and work-life balance.

Depending on the application, three more “dimensions” of the model can be “layered” on an individual’s BAP to address additional behavior influences such as gender related roles in family, the influence of trauma. The gender dimension provides insights helpful for re-establishing societal priorities that better support family life, with a focus on healthy environments for optimal child development. The trauma dimension provides insights to the source of societal ills such as: homelessness, substance abuse and suicide, as well as their potential remedy.