Unreasonable Expectations
It is unreasonable to expect everyone in your workplace to adjust to all of the quirks and characteristics of your personality style. Those with a similar pattern as yours will be comfortable with your natural form of relating. It is with these people that few compromises are necessary and you can just be yourself.
Diplomacy, restraint and compromise enter in most often when we are dealing with those of opposite patterns. If we refuse to restrain and compromise our own personality habits when dealing with those of conflicting personality patterns, we will be met with an equally powerful force of resistance and resentment.
It is reasonable to expect that if you are willing to temper your own personality impulses, then the other parties—sensing a step in their direction—will alter their response. A reasonable expectation is to negotiate compromise by first demonstrating compromise. As the above scenarios demonstrate, one party cannot negotiate compromise for both parties. True compromise involves both parties taking equal steps toward the halfway point of a working comfort zone.
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