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Personality Lingo Copyright Permissions

Personality systems are popular, fun, effective, and contagious. Once introduced to the concepts, most of us are eager to share what we have learned with others.

At the same time, all professional models, frameworks, and training materials are protected by copyright and trademark law. Using any published framework in your own programs requires clear permission from the author or rights holder. This page is designed to clarify how Personality Lingo® materials may be used, shared, and integrated—so facilitators can work confidently, ethically, and within well-defined permissions.

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What if there were a personality system that made it easy to integrate meaningful insights across many fields, without delivering a one-size-fits-all program?

You may combine the unaltered Personality Lingo® handouts and slides with your own signature material designed to support your specific audience.
Personality Lingo® training kits provide everything you need to facilitate a successful personality presentation, including straightforward handouts, concise slides, and a facilitation guide grounded in effective teaching methodologies.
Easy to comprehend terminology frees participants to embark on a meaningful self-exploration without feeling like they are learning a new language. This simplicity also allows you, the trainer, to easily extend these core concepts to many different fields.
Each training kit includes a modifiable slideshow file to support flexible delivery within the scope of the Use License Agreement.
Our Standard Use License Agreement Supports Creative Delivery Within Clear Permissions
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Reliable, affordable, and scalable training material providing endless benefits for your organization.

Your one-time investment in a license to Personality Lingo® training material comes with “duplication rights” allowing you to distribute unlimited copies of the participant handouts with no added fees.
Three license options are available:
  • Individual License – 1 trainer
  • Team License – up to 5 trainers
  • Corporate License – up to 15 trainers
Yes, you may transfer licenses to new employees as roles shift within your organization.
Personality Lingo training programs are affordable and scalable

It can be frustrating when a personality system sparks meaningful insight but restricts how those insights can be expressed. When experienced facilitators are inspired by a framework but aren’t allowed to use its terminology, it can feel like they are left with little choice but to create their own systems and invent new labels simply to stay within copyright boundaries. Over time, this leads to a growing number of parallel systems using different terms to describe the same underlying patterns—making the learning landscape more fragmented and confusing for participants.

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Wouldn’t it be great to have a clear, ethical pathway for using personality terminology to express your own ideas?

Qualified Personality Lingo Presenters are granted permission to use the personality style descriptor terms in their own slides and handouts without having to request written permission for every new project.

Your work product must include the following attribution statement:
“The personality style descriptor terms (Connector, Planner, Thinker, and Mover) are used with permission from Personality Lingo.”
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Using Personality Lingo terms and concepts in your own material

  • You want to create a handout in order to present information to a target audience.
  • You want to create new slides for a specific group, industry, or conference.
  • You are writing a book and want to include a section discussing the Personality Lingo concepts.
  • You are developing an online course and would like to teach the Personality Lingo concepts as part of the course.
Include attribution statement and obtain written permission
“The personality style descriptor terms (Connector, Planner, Thinker, and Mover) are used with permission from Personality Lingo.”

If you are not yet a Qualified Personality Lingo Presenter, you MUST request copyright permissions to incorporate the Personality Lingo® terms and concepts into your own slides and handouts.

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General Guidance on Customization

It is common for trainers to want to offer advice to each of the styles. Sometimes this advice comes in the form of counsel that a manager, who is not familiar with strength-based leadership, might offer an employee.
  • Connectors: control your emotions, don’t take things personally
  • Planners: relax, it is better to be liked than to be right
  • Thinkers: get out of your head, learn to work with others
  • Movers: lower your intensity, learn to be patient
Any trainer or manager who offers this kind of advice certainly has the best interest of the participants in mind. Yet, if we pause and consider this advice for a moment, we will realize that this is essentially telling them “Don’t be you.” Depending on the workshop objectives, there may be some rare circumstance where providing this kind of corrective advice is justified.
However, in most cases, it is best to take an appreciative tone. Highlight what each style brings to the table and what to turn to each style for. Building a workforce than honors differences can only happen when participants come away feeling valued and validated for who they are.

Referencing information on the Personality Lingo® website

Cite your source by providing a link

The best way to reference information on the website is to provide a brief summary of the information in your own words and include a direct link for your audience members to visit the site themselves to learn more.

Yes, you may link to the free online personality test and the personality style profile pages as part of your program or course.

Academic Standard Practices

The academic standard for citing someone else’s copyrighted work is that you may quote up to five lines of text directly and simply cite the author. In general, your work should contain no more than 15% ideas from outside sources.

Whenever possible, paraphrase the material in your own words. If the ideas being discussed originated from another author, you must still provide a reference.
If you are unsure if you have quoted too much or have any questions, please use our copyright permission form to inquire about attribution specifics.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Your Quick Guide to Understanding Personality Lingo® Copyright Permissions

Yes! You may link directly to the free online personality test and the style profile pages on our website. These resources are designed as self-service tools to help individuals better understand themselves and others, and you’re welcome to direct your students or employees there.

As the popularity of your programs increase, you’ll likely want tools that save time and add impact—such as printable versions of the test, colorful handouts, and proven facilitation instructions. That’s when investing in a Personality Lingo® Mini Kit or Pro Training Kit becomes the natural next step.

Absolutely, you may use the free articles found on this website in your course or workshop (even if you don’t own one of our training kits).

✅ Preferred method: Share the article link and have students download directly from our website.

✅ When needed: You may print and distribute hard copies or email the PDFs directly to your students.

❌ Important: Articles must remain unaltered, with the original copyright and website information intact.

✅ Free Resources: Look at the footer. If the document footer contains only the copyright notice and Personality Lingo website information, it is a complimentary resource and may be shared freely in its unaltered format.

❌ Kit Contents: If the footer includes the statement: “For Individual Use Only. Do not duplicate. Do not post publicly.” then it is part of a licensed Personality Lingo® Training Kit or Integration Module Series. To distribute it yourself, use it in a workshop, or include it in your own programs, you must purchase a license to receive the rights listed in the Standard Use License Agreement.

Yes, with proper citation. You may reference Personality Lingo® in academic writing the same way you would any published model. However, reproducing large portions of our copyrighted materials (such as charts, graphics, or proprietary terms) requires permission.

You may quote short excerpts (a few sentences) from the Personality Lingo® online profile pages in a presentation, as long as you include attribution and a visible reference to personalitylingo.com.

Beyond short excerpts, you may develop longer passages in your own words and simply provide attribution for your use of our descriptor terms.

Include the following ATTRIBUTION STATEMENT wherever these terms are used:

The personality style descriptor terms (Connector, Planner, Thinker, and Mover) are used with permission from Personality Lingo.

Qualified Personality Lingo Presenters are granted permission to use the personality style descriptor terms in their own handouts and slides. If you are not a Qualified Personality Lingo Presenter, you must request copyright permission to incorporate the Personality Lingo terms and concepts into your own handouts or slides: https://personalitylingo.com/permission-request

Alternatively, you may purchase a license to use the ready-to-deliver handouts and slides included in our Mini Kits, Pro Training Kits, and Integration Modules. Shop Training Material
Purchasing a stand-alone Field Guide gives you a license for personal learning and reference only. That means you may read, print, and apply the material in your own life.

✅ You may share short quotations (a few sentences) in a presentation for the purpose of discussion, as long as you clearly cite Personality Lingo® as the source.

❌ You must not reproduce large sections, trait lists, or proprietary style descriptions in your own slides, handouts, or publications without written permission.

If you wish to cover the ideas in your own materials, you must write the information in your own words with appropriate attribution and request copyright permission
This license allows you to share the materials included in the Integration Module Series with your participants or clients.

The series includes:
• Handouts and worksheets designed for use as a learning modules series
• The full-length Field Guide which may be distributed as a deeper companion resource

Important conditions:

✅ You must keep the content unaltered (no editing, excerpting, or rebranding).

✅ The official Personality Lingo® copyright and formatting must remain intact.

✅ You may distribute this document alongside your own original materials, as long as they are clearly presented as separate documents/sheets.

❌ You may not merge, rebrand, or embed Personality Lingo® content directly into your own custom handouts, slides, or publications.

If you wish to adapt or integrate Personality Lingo® concepts directly into your own materials, you must write the information in your own words with appropriate attribution and request copyright permission

Whether your program is free to the public or has a cost, you must only distribute the participants materials from Personality Lingo® training kits PRIVATELY.

✅ You may email the assessments and handouts directly to participants.

✅ You may allow downloads from a password-protected webpage.

❌ DO NOT post Personality Lingo® Training Kit contents PUBLICLY anywhere for any reason.

No. You must not copy or paste the Personality Lingo® assessment questions into another format (such as Google Forms) without prior written permission.

Here’s the approved way to collect participant information before your workshop:

✅ Have participants take the free online personality test and read the online style profile pages.

✅ If you are licensed to a training kit that includes an assessment, you may email the PDF assessment and handouts directly to your participants or allow downloads from a password-protected webpage.

✅ Use a simple web form (Google Form, SurveyMonkey, etc.) to have participants self-report which dominant style they would like to explore in the upcoming session. Provide a transparent privacy policy.

❌ DO NOT copy, paste, or reformat the copyrighted Personality Lingo® assessment into another platform. Do not collect or store participant responses to personality assessments.

This approach helps protect participant privacy and psychological safety. Personality reflections are personal insights—not evaluative data. Participants should be free to explore them without feeling judged, classified, or monitored.

Our goal is to help you create learning environments where participants feel respected, empowered, and free to reflect on these insights in a safe space.

Compassionate Communication

Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also called Compassionate Communication, is a process developed by Marshall Rosenberg in the 1960s. Rosenburg discovered an insightful way of working through the conflict that arises when two individuals have contrasting strategies for having their own needs and values met. His process involves identifying one’s own needs, the needs of others, and the feelings that surround these needs.

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