As you already know from our previous posts, the workplace can contribute to perceived stress. PCM model (Process Communication Model®) distinguished between 6 personality types and it is the dominant traits an employee presents that determine their workplace needs.
The PCM model (Process Communication Model®) distinguishes and describes 6 personality types. One of them is the Rebel!
A rebel is a spontaneous, playful, creative person. He reacts to people and the world by liking or disliking them. He is able to enjoy the moment and find joy in different things and events. Work is valuable to him when it provides him with a lot of joy and fun.
He also has a strong need for stimulation in relationships, to be in positive contact. Therefore, the Rebel also needs to be in many groups, so he has good contact with many people. This is the kind of person who will find himself wonderfully at home in an open-plan office.
He often speaks in jokes, with particular groups he builds up his slang: 'good morning my dear mothers', going into accounting. He needs many groups with whom he can be in good contact. He is the soul of the company, organiser of organisational trips, often colourfully dressed.
What does the Rebel office look like? Similar to the Activist, because the Rebel remembers by experience. It is its own order - according to pleasant and stubborn designs.
His office is full of expressive, brightly coloured gadgets so that interaction and humour are born around them. They'll put a sculpture or a comfy pouffe in his office, and there are photos from various events, outings and flip charts with funny slogans.
The Rebellion needs a room to meet in, flipcharts to draw their ideas so that others can understand and join them. Being able to express and write it down in numerous places is key to the success of the Rebellion.
It needs places where it is possible to discuss and argue loudly and at the same time eat and drink.
He needs a space that provides him with a pleasant experience because that's when he is most creative - in a relaxed friendly atmosphere. That's why in a company where rebels work you'll find swings, foosball tables and darts. In the toilet they will place a plaster cast of hands holding toilet paper as a holder.
He will organise funny coffee mugs in the kitchen, a place to write slogans and read controversial newspapers from the two opposing political parties to fuel discussions.
The shared space will be used not just for meeting other people, sharing tastes or aesthetic experiences as in Empata's case, but for experiencing shared events together. Locked in an isolated office, he will not spend a moment there anyway.
Remember, we are never just one personality type. We have all six: Empathy, Activist, Analyst, Unbending, Dreamer and Rebel. We will furnish our office according to the preferences of the most dominant type, but there will also be a trace of those parts of our personality that were dominant in us before.
Are the Rebels here with us?
And what does the Empath have to say about all of this - what does his work space look like? find out here.
