WorkStyle
Build Your Personal User Manual

How you work,
not what you did.

WorkStyle is a manual for how you actually operate — your rhythm, your communication, your style. Built for the people you work with.

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What is a personal user manual?

A personal user manual is a short guide to how you actually work.

Not a resume of what you've done — a clear, human read on how you communicate, when you're at your best, and what it's like to work alongside you. The things a teammate usually spends weeks figuring out.

How you communicate

Your channels, your pace, and the fastest way to reach you when it actually matters.

When you're sharp

Your energy, your focus, and the conditions that bring out your best work.

How to read you

What your quiet means, how you take feedback, and how to tell when you need support.

Why it matters

Most friction at work isn't about talent. It's about not knowing how someone operates.

Teams waste weeks decoding each other. A personal user manual hands people the answers up front — so trust starts on day one instead of month three.

Fewer misreads

Directness stops looking like bluntness. Quiet stops looking like a problem. People read you correctly from the start.

Faster trust

Skip the awkward ramp. New teammates, managers, and collaborators know how to work with you immediately.

Better fit

Culture and working style are where collaborations actually succeed or stall. Make yours legible before the work starts.

How to use it

Share it before the work starts.

A personal user manual is most useful the moment two people begin working together — not buried in a profile no one opens.

1

Send it on day one

New report, new collaborator, new client. Drop your link in the first message and skip the guesswork.

2

Put it where teammates look

Your Slack profile, email signature, or the team wiki. One link that explains how to work with you.

3

Keep it living

Edit it as you grow. It's present-tense by design — a picture of how you work now, not a record of the past.

WorkStyle + LinkedIn

LinkedIn shows what you've done. WorkStyle shows how you do it.

They're built for different jobs. Keep your LinkedIn for your track record — use your WorkStyle manual for everything a resume can't capture.

LinkedIn — the track record
What you've done
  • ·Titles, companies, and history
  • ·Accomplishments and credentials
  • ·Your network and endorsements
  • ·Past tense — where you've been
WorkStyle — the operating manual
How you work
  • +Communication, energy, and focus
  • +How to read you and give you feedback
  • +Your values and what it's like on your team
  • +Present tense — how you work now

A resume gets you in the room. A personal user manual is how the room actually works with you.

FAQ

Personal user manuals, answered.

A personal user manual is a short, structured guide to how a person works — how they communicate, when they do their best work, how to give them feedback, and what it's like to collaborate with them. It helps teammates understand someone's working style without weeks of trial and error.

A resume and a LinkedIn profile cover what you've accomplished — your roles, history, and credentials. A personal user manual covers how you operate: your communication style, energy, values, and the culture you create. It complements LinkedIn rather than replacing it.

A strong personal user manual covers how you communicate, when your energy and focus peak, how you give and receive feedback, how to read your signals, what you value, and a bit of who you are outside the work. WorkStyle organizes all of this into a clean, shareable profile.

It's for the people you work with — new teammates, managers, direct reports, clients, and collaborators. Anyone who'd work better with you if they understood how you operate from the start.

A few minutes. WorkStyle asks small, pointed questions and drafts each section for you to edit — so you're never staring at a blank page. You can publish your first chapter quickly and add the rest whenever you like.

No resume required

Write the manual to how you work.

A few quick questions and you're live. Built for the people you work with.

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