The Color Personality Quiz offers a practical framework for understanding diverse working styles in IT teams, helping reduce friction and improve collaboration among colleagues with different communication preferences and work approaches.

• Based on Don Lowry's 1970s True Colors personality system with four color-coded categories
• Blue personalities are empathetic, relationship-focused and value harmony
• Green personalities are analytical, logical and driven by competence
• Gold personalities are organized, detail-oriented and thrive on structure
• Orange personalities are energetic, spontaneous and seek variety
• Project kickoffs, code reviews and retrospectives reveal how different personality types approach work
• Match tasks to natural strengths: Golds for documentation, Greens for research, Oranges for creativity, Blues for stakeholder communication
• Use color preferences to recognize when conflicts stem from working style differences rather than substantive disagreements
• Leaders can adapt their approach based on team members' color preferences

Take the Color Personality Quiz here and consider starting a conversation with your team about how different working styles impact your collaboration.

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