Aureve Seeds — Digital Playbook
Everyone Around You
Has a Pattern.
Learn to Read It.
8 archetypes. Every difficult personality type you've ever encountered — mapped, decoded, and navigated. Built on Transactional Analysis. Deployable Monday.
8
Archetypes
TA
Framework
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Power Map
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Access
The Real Problem
"It was never about capability. It was about not understanding the people around you."
You've delivered consistently. But the wrong reads, wrong relationships, and wrong responses to the wrong people keep costing you — in opportunities, in influence, in peace of mind.
01
You misread people and pay for it
The wrong tone with the wrong person at the wrong moment. You didn't see it coming — because no one taught you the pattern.
02
Certain people consistently drain or destabilise you
The micromanager. The passive-agreeable. The political operator. You know who they are — you just don't know how to handle them without losing yourself.
03
You're politically naive in a political world
You were taught to work hard and let results speak. But results don't speak in organisations — relationships do.
04
Every personality feels like a different problem
There's no system. You react, recover, and hope for better. This playbook gives you the system.
The 8 Archetypes
You've Worked With Every One
You've Worked With Every One
of These People. Probably Today.
Each archetype is a behaviour pattern driven by a specific ego state and life position. Once you see it, you can never unsee it.
01
The Controller
Micromanages. Must approve everything. Rewrites your work the night before.
You know them asYour boss who cc's himself on every email and restructures your deck at 11pm.
02
The Pleaser
Agrees to everything in the room. Delivers nothing outside it.
You know them asThe colleague who says yes to your idea, yes to the competing idea, then does neither.
03
The Rebel
Resists structure. Resists being managed. Brilliant when trusted.
You know them asThe team member whose best work happens the moment you stop watching them.
04
The Caregiver
Over-gives until depleted. Takes on everyone's problems. Has no boundaries.
You know them asThe manager who is everyone's emotional support — and never asks for any themselves.
05
The Rationalist
Brilliant at analysis. Invisible in rooms that matter.
You know them asThe smartest person in the meeting who never gets credit because they never claim it.
06
The Player
Politically fluent. Always in the right room. Always aligned with the right person.
You know them asThe one who gets promoted without working harder than you. Not luck — strategy.
07
The Facilitator
Builds consensus. Avoids the final call. Everyone likes them. No one follows them.
You know them asThe team lead who runs great meetings and ends none of them with a clear decision.
08
The Saboteur
Agrees publicly. Undermines privately. Not malicious — masking deep fear.
You know them asThe stakeholder who supports your project in every meeting and quietly ensures it fails.
Did you just picture someone?
Each archetype comes with their ego state map, core fear, communication pattern — and exactly how to respond without losing your ground, authority, or integrity.
The Central Tool
The Power Map.
The Power Map.
Your Living Stakeholder Intelligence.
Not a one-time exercise. A weekly practice. Updated every Friday.
Your Power Map tracks
Ego State Operating From
Parent / Adult / Child — which is driving them today
Core Insecurity
What they're actually afraid of beneath the behaviour
Your Communication Pattern
How you show up — and how you need to shift
Your Next Move
One specific action to shift the dynamic this week
01
Updated weekly
People change states under pressure. What worked last month may not work this month.
02
One person. One page.
Five minutes to complete. Saves hours of misnavigation.
03
Start today
Begin with the person who costs you the most energy right now.
Why It WorksGrounded in Psychology.
Grounded in Psychology.
Deployed in Real Workplaces.
Transactional Analysis
Every archetype is mapped to an ego state and life position. Behavioural science that explains why people do what they do under pressure — not personality typing.
The Threat Gap
The ego state someone shows externally often masks a different one driving them internally. The Controller looks like Critical Parent — but is driven by Adapted Child fear.
Immediately Deployable
Every archetype section ends with specific communication scripts calibrated for the Indian professional context. Read today. Use tomorrow.
The most politically intelligent people
aren't playing games.
aren't playing games.
They're reading people
more accurately than everyone else.
more accurately than everyone else.
Your Purchase IncludesEverything You Need to Navigate
Everything You Need to Navigate
Every Person in Your Organisation
8 Complete Archetype Profiles
Each mapped in full — ego state, core fear, external behaviour, internal driver, and how to communicate without losing your ground.
The Power Map Template
Printable, fillable one-pager per stakeholder. Updated weekly. The single most practical political intelligence tool in the playbook.
Communication Scripts
Ready-to-adapt scripts for navigating each archetype — in meetings, feedback conversations, conflict, and senior rooms.
Threat Gap Analysis
Learn to see beneath the surface behaviour to the fear driving it. This one skill changes every difficult relationship.
Ego State Framework
The complete Transactional Analysis primer — enough to apply immediately, structured for professionals not psychologists.
Lifetime Digital Access
Instant PDF download. Return to it as your stakeholder map changes. New role, new organisation, same framework.
A Word of HonestyThis Playbook Is Not
This Playbook Is Not
for Everyone
Not for you if...
- You believe office politics is beneath you and refuse to engage
- You want to manipulate people — this is about understanding, not exploitation
- You're looking for shortcuts without self-awareness
- You think difficult people are bad people — not people in a specific state
For you if...
- Certain people consistently drain, confuse, or derail you — and you want that to stop
- You're politically naive in a political environment and know it's costing you
- You want to influence without manipulating — and need a framework
- You're ready to see people as they are, not as they should be
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Cover Page
Table of Contents
The Controller
Power Map Template
Communication Scripts
Threat Gap Framework
Your Investment
One Misread Relationship Costs
One Misread Relationship Costs
More Than This Playbook
The wrong read on your boss before a critical conversation. The political player you didn't see coming. Any one of these costs more than this playbook.
Total Investment
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8 complete archetype profiles with ego state maps
The Power Map template — weekly printable tool
Communication scripts for every archetype
Threat Gap analysis framework
Complete Transactional Analysis primer
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You Already Know
You Already Know
Exactly Which Person
You Need This For.
Start there. Map them first. The Power Map takes five minutes. What it gives you — clarity, strategy, composure — lasts the entire relationship.
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