I’m a big advocate that we should try to build up a diversity of people in the workplace (in terms of personality). However, sometimes it just seems like there are people that are just on a completely different wavelength from me. It’s not that I dislike people like that, it’s just that I almost always seem to get nowhere in communicating with these people.

For instance, I’m an INTP and someone I work with is an ESTJ (or so I’m convinced). We both enjoy each other’s company, but when it comes down to discussing work, it seems like I’m speaking German and he’s speaking Martian. We can barely agree on what problems need to be solved, much less what that solution is.

Has anyone had any success in dealing with this kind of situation? What did you do?

Topics: work, communication, careers, personality, MBTI