Ann Bidou

Modern Survey, a human capital measurement firm, reported a record-breaking 70 percent level of U.S. employee disengagement in 2011. CPP, a provider of products and services for individual and organizational development, compiled a 2008 "Human Capital Report" of 5000 workers in nine countries. The results revealed U.S. employees spend 2.8 hours a week dealing with conflict, which equals a staggering $359 billion in paid hours per year.

This means most of us have endured workplace conflict; many of us have changed jobs because of it. But there are ways to change your worst enemies into staunch, and surprising, allies... if you change your words and actions in ways they find comfortable and familiar.

Personality Power tests your personality to show you the corporate culture in which you would best thrive; how to build executive presence and personal brand; the strengths you bring to a team; the types of communication styles you (and your troublesome co-workers) prefer; your special stressors, and how not to create the stressors that set off your co-workers; strategies to improve your effectiveness when your co-workers challenge you; and negotiating strategies that will get you what you want. What's unique about Personality Power is that you are not required to change who you are in any way in order to make big changes in your professional life.

Personality Power is "masterful at boiling down into plain English the complex topics of career and personality. Personality Power is like a wise career adviser at your fingertips.