Social Styles

The P with a Controlling Style

Your communication style is expressive in nature and that of your conversation partner more instructive. Your basic psychological need is aimed at recognizing yourself, as opposed to that of your conversation partner: achieving results. Be attentive to his core quality, which always manifests itself in what he/she says (congruence). Your challenge is to come across as reliable to others, so listening carefully to your conversation partner about how he/she will achieve a result can help you. Your conversation partner may want to work towards a concrete result too quickly, while you have not been able to ventilate enough about the subject. Try not only to accept the conversation partner for what he/she is but also to activate the basic needs. The conversation partner can respond impatiently to this, but do not be discouraged by this.

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The P with a Facilitating Style

Your communication style is expressive in nature and that of your conversation partner more cooperative. Both you and your conversation partner are relationship-oriented, but your basic needs clearly differ from each other. Your conversation partner has the need to accept the other as he/she is and you have a tendency to attract attention to you. Realize that your conversation partner is more cooperative and will leave the floor to you. This is an interesting combination where you can get the feeling that you are learning nothing yourself. Your cooperative interlocutor will activate you to the maximum in the satisfaction of your own basic needs. You are very open and often future-oriented while your conversation partner has a great sense of acceptance of the other and is more concerned with the here and now.

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The P with a Analytical Style

Your communication style is expressive in nature and your conversation partner exhibits behaviour that is often felt as your opposite: analytical behaviour. You are mostly relationship oriented and your conversation partner focuses on the task in a non-dominant way. Focus your attention on what happens to you if your conversation partner continually asks you for more information, more detail about the subject/goal you want to work on. Accept that your own pitfall comes out best when you meet your opposite. Accept your conversation partner as he is and pay attention to the focus on the past and best practices realized by others. Let your conversation partner activate you on more than just your own thoughts and reasoning based on your great power, namely your openness. It can contribute to your biggest challenge of coming across as reliable.

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The P with a Promoting Style

Your communication style is expressive in nature and that of your conversation partner more instructive. Your basic psychological need is aimed at recognizing yourself, as opposed to that of your conversation partner: achieving results. Be attentive to his core quality, which always manifests itself in what he / she says (congruence). Your challenge is to come across as reliable to others, so listening carefully to your conversation partner about how he / she will achieve a result can help you. Your conversation partner may want to work towards a concrete result too quickly, while you have not been able to ventilate enough about the subject. Try not only to accept the conversation partner that he / she is like that, but also to activate your basic needs to tell. The conversation partner can respond impatiently to this, but do not be discouraged by this.

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