Temperament Types and Refined Career

The document discusses four main temperament types - sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic - and how understanding one's dominant temperament can help in career selection and work performance. Sanguines are sociable and energetic but lose focus easily. Cholerics are ambitious leaders but impatient. Phlegmatics are calm and steady team players. Melancholics are thoughtful analysts who work best alone. The document provides career recommendations and tips for being effective at work for each temperament type.

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TEMPERAMENT TYPES AND

REFINED CAREER
Your temperament is a permanent psychological nature determining how you think, feel,
and interact. It reflects decisions and behavior, knowing your abilities and
characteristics could help to benefit from them.

As already mentioned above, four basic temperament types consist

of sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic where the first two belong to
extroverts while the last two are considered introverts. Most of us are a blend of two
temperaments but one dominates the other anyway, especially if you have an
“extrovert-introvert” combination.

Let’s study each for better understanding of people around us; and let’s concentrate
on our dominant temperament type to learn all its traits and use them on work path.
Successful Sanguine
Do you belong to sanguine? Big chances are you are an easy-going, flexible, and
dynamic person, task-oriented and no slouch at critical thinking.

What are your main strengths at work?

 You are self-confident, taking no offense at critical remarks.

 You have superb interpersonal skills and positive attitude to get on well with peers and
clients.

 You are cool-headed and productive, but you lose motivation and interest in work when
it becomes humdrum or doesn’t require any defined responsibilities.
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Careers perfect for sanguine: sales, PR, customer service, marketing,
travel, sports, and entertainment.
How to work smarter if you are sanguine?

 Don’t torture yourself with hackwork.

 Become an efficient time manager: don’t overset or procrastinate.

 Combine routine and dynamic tasks to stay productive.

 Be proactive. Participate in social discussions.

 Take advantage of your sociability: be flexible when it goes to conflict negotiations.

Assertive Choleric
The most ambitious of all the temperaments, cholerics are competitive, goal-oriented,
motivational, and often climbing into positions of leadership. A perfect example of a
choleric manager is Steve Jobs.

Belonging to this type, you are practical, logical, analytical, and straightforward.

What are your main strengths at work?

 You are full of energy and have strong leadership skills.

 You start new projects with passion.

 You are persuasive and attractive.

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Don’t let impulsion and irascibility rule your decisions and behavior. Try to be more
caring and sympathetic: insistence is great, but don’t forget about tactfulness.

Careers perfect for choleric: business, law, technology, security,

management, engineering, and statistics.
How to work smarter if you are choleric?

 Solution-oriented, lead projects from A to Z.

 Take short breaks during a day to calm down your temper.

 Cholerics can’t stand boredom, so try to get emotionally involved with every task.

 Work with people who have similar professional interests.

Cool-headed Phlegmatic
Relaxed phlegmatics live in harmony with others. Top characteristics of this
temperament are self-control, patience, fixity of habits, and high effectiveness.

What are your main strengths at work?

 Phlegmatics are the most productive employees.

 When it comes to tough stuff, you are steady and cool-headed.

 Not so fast at decision-making as cholerics, you do stay the course.

 You are a team player, curious and fair.

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Careers perfect for phlegmatic: nursing, education, psychology, office
work, assistant roles, human or social services.
How to work smarter if you are phlegmatic?

 Start working on a project in advance.

 Better solve one critical problem than spend energy on multitasking.

 Avoid procrastination and inactivity.

 Learn to speak for your opinion and discontent in public.

Dreamy Melancholic
The last but not least, a melancholic temperament type belongs to diligent and accurate
introverted individuals, thoughtful loners and analytical thinkers.

Task-oriented, they better work alone or in small groups. Melancholics don’t like when
someone interrupts or distracts them, so they often choose careers allowing to show
their creative side with less publicity and no rush.