What’s My Communication Style Third Edition

Description

Build a better understanding of personality style, communication, and their effects on your colleagues with What’s My Communication Style. This tool will allow you to identify an individual’s dominant communication style and the communication behaviors that distinguish it. The four styles are Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic.

Part of the best-selling Style Suite, this communication style assessment and training program now has a new look! It still has the same great content that can help you assess personality style from the perspective of communication using Marston’s style theory (or DISC) and it also includes a half-day experiential workshop.

A newer version of this product is available here.

How It Works

What’s My Communication Style starts with a self-assessment (a communication style inventory) that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Individuals respond to 24 different items relating to both verbal and nonverbal communication by selecting the statement ending that they believe best reflects their perceived communication behavior. Each response is scored, providing individuals with a total summary for each of the four personal communication styles: direct, spirited, considerate, and systematic.

The majority of individuals will show a clear preference for one of the communication styles, which becomes their dominant style. This communication style inventory is followed by approximately one hour of interpretation of scores, topic discussion, debriefing, and action planning. The What’s My Communication Style Facilitator Guide also offers an easy-to-follow workshop outline that expands What’s My Communication Style into a 1.5-hour classroom training program.

Uses and Applications

What’s My Communication Style is appropriate for use with anyone and is equally effective for personal and management development. The communication assessment can be used as a standalone training development tool, or it can be incorporated into a more comprehensive training program on communication skills. This communication assessment is an effective foundation for determining types of communication, and it offers a variety of soft-skills training topics, including:

• Communication
• Leadership training
• Team building
• Supervisory skills
• Conflict resolution

If you are familiar with the DISC-based assessments, you will find that What’s My Communication Style is a practical and easy-to-use alternative.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this assessment, participants will:

• Identify a preference for one of four communication styles
• Uncover the characteristics of each style
• Discover how style affects communication
• Learn how to “speed-read” a person’s dominant communication style
• Understand how to “flex” style for effective communication with others

Product Details

Product Type: Self-assessment and workshop

Audience: Individuals at any organizational level who want to discover more about themselves and their communication preferences

Measures: A number of different personal communication styles, ranging from everything from your habits of talking, listening, movement, and even handshake

Dimensions: Communication, expressiveness, and assertiveness

Time Required: 1 hour, with an optional workshop that ranges between 1 hour to half-a-day

What to Order

Deluxe Facilitator Guide: Order One Guide Per Trainer.

The comprehensive Facilitator Guide includes everything trainers need to deliver What’s My Communication Style, including background information, administrative guidelines, a step-by-step workshop outline, the HRDQ Style Model, alternative workshop designs, optional activities, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, sample assessment materials, and a Personality Style for Dummies book. Facilitator support materials will be available to you as a digital download link in your order confirmation.

Paper Assessment 5-Pack : Order One Pack for Up to Five Participants.

The print version is ideal for facilitators who prefer to oversee scoring and administration of the assessment if you don’t know who the participants will be before the class begins, or if your learners do not have easy access to computers. It includes pressure-sensitive forms for scoring to aid manual tabulation, and includes interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning.

Online Assessment: Order One Per Participant.

The online assessment is administered to participants through the HRDQ Assessment Center and includes personalized reporting, full-color charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. A detailed report is delivered electronically to the facilitator/administrator when complete.

Online Assessment (Spanish): Order One Per Participant.

The online Spanish version is an excellent choice for enterprise-wide training or audiences that are geographically dispersed and need a Spanish translation. It offers 24/7 access, streamlined distribution, and instant scoring. Each online assessment includes personalized reporting, full-color charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning.

One-Hour Virtual Coaching

We highly recommend this convenient coaching session if you are a first time facilitator of this product. You’ll receive personalized, one-on-one virtual coaching (telephone or video conference call) with one of our subject matter experts. We will get you up to speed quickly and accurately so you can step into the classroom with confidence!