About Us

What We Do

The People Skills Group works collaboratively with business leaders who want more productive team work, stronger leadership, and more profitable organizations. Our approach is to help your people gain the insight and skills necessary for effective communication, the cornerstone of strong teams and organizations. We do this by leveraging our expertise in personality instruments and theories such as the the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. We teach your people how to leverage their strengths and develop weak areas within the context of individual, team and organizational goals through training and follow- up coaching.

Our Founder and President

Cynthia Stengel Paris is the President and founder of The People Skills Group and has been helping people work better together since 2001. She has established proficiency in facilitating teams and coaching leaders. She is skilled in guiding people to a deeper understanding of self, leading to positive change in the workplace. Ms. Paris has a proven record of successfully improving individual, team and leader performance.

In her many leadership positions as a manager and consultant, she saw the negative affect that misunderstandings from style differences can have on morale and productivity. She became passionate about helping people and the companies they work for bridge the gaps created by diversity in work styles.

Ms. Paris is an MBTI® Master Practitioner, and an expert in the application of Jungian psychological type in the workplace. She has Certified hundreds of human resource personnel, OD practitioners, training and development professionals and career counselors to administer and interpret the MBTI and has created and delivered advanced application programs for real world business results. Paris is on the Board of the international Type association (APTi), and is a well-known author and speaker on psychological type. She is a member of ASTD, GPSEG (Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group) and the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW).

Our People

The People Skills Group is a company comprised of a network of training and development professionals, Myers-Briggs® (MBTI) Master Practitioners and Organizational Development consultants who are dedicated to fostering human growth and development in the workplace. We represent over a decade of in-depth experience in driving business results through training and coaching.

Mission

We believe that while most organizations have the functional expertise to run their operations, it is the effective development of the people inside the organization that ultimately separates the wheat from the chaff. Our mission is to help organizational leaders develop the innate potential of the people inside their organization by fostering self-awareness and the appreciation of differences on the part of everyone in the organization.

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