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UNDERSTANDING YOUR COMMUNICATION STYLE. Good communication skills require a high level of self-awareness. Understanding your personal style of communicating will go a long way toward helping you to create good and lasting impressions on others.
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- How the Matrix of Communication Styles Works
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- Filters and Frames
- Corner Styles
- Blended Styles
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If you split the Matrix into equal quarters, or quadrants, then each quadrant illustrates a primary style—Director, Expresser, Thinker, or Harmonizer. Each quadrant contains four more squares. Your secondary style determines your particular square within each quadrant.
Your primary style governs your placement in one of the quadrants. Directors are in the upper left of the Matrix. Expressers are in the upper right. Thinkers are in the lower left. Harmonizers are in the lower right. Since the Organizer’s primary style is Thinker, she is in the lower-left.
Once you’ve located your quadrant, cover up the other three. Pretend they don’t exist. In this case, you’d cover up the top half of the Matrix and the lower-right quadrant. The only quadrant visible would be the Thinker.
The Thinker quadrant is divided into four smaller squares. Each has a label, like Investigator or Supporter. Use the same rule of thumb as the first step. In this case, the secondary style is Expresser, which makes this person an Organizer. Thinker / Director = Investigator Thinker / Expresser = Organizer Thinker / Thinker = Analyzer Thinker / Harm...
The Matrix is a very helpful tool because it lets you see the relationship between all sixteen styles at a glance. You can see how the styles at the top of the Matrix are the most assertive, while those at the bottom are the least so. How those on the left side are most analytical, while those on the right are the most intuitive. The combined worki...
Some people—approximately one in a hundred—are so-called “corner styles.” The four corner styles are Director, Entertainer, Analyzer, and Pleaser. Corner styles occur when a person’s score for one basic communication style is ten points higher than the score for any of the others. Corner styles have particular challenges to face in developing their...
Some people truly have two styles and occupy two places on the Matrix. We call these “blended styles.” A blended style occurs when a person’s high score is identical for two of the basic styles. For example, a person who scores 35 for both Thinker and Director would be a blend of Investigator and Explorer. If you have a blended style, don’t worry. ...
As you begin to familiarize yourself with each style, certain themes begin to emerge about what constitutes a competent communicator. The importance of asking good questions. The need to assert one’s own beliefs and feelings clearly and honestly. The importance of getting all the facts before you draw conclusions. The need to distinguish betw...
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Communication style is defined as the way in which individuals interact with one another and the messages they send, intentionally or not, through their behaviors. Determining your own communication style can help you improve how you share information with others.
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The Four Communication Styles. Communication Styles in the Workplace – 10 Infographics. Today's focus is on communication styles, with 10 infographics. Research shows us people have four different styles of communicating. We call these styles: Director, Expresser, Thinker and Harmonizer. Each style has its own way of seeing the world.
• Deeper self-confidence and self-awareness. Encourage participants to underline two reasons of the benefits listed above that they think would help them be a more effective communicator]
Understanding your style will help you understand your approach to communication in sales conversions and give you a framework for assessing your customers’ style.
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