The document discusses communication styles and effective communication. It identifies four main styles: Assertive, Animated, Attentive, and Accurate. For each style, it provides characteristics and strengths. It also identifies potential blind spots to watch out for with each style. The overall message is the importance of understanding different communication styles to improve relationships and interactions.

2.  Collective Orientation to Results
 Unapologetic Accountability
 Unwavering Commitment
 Healthy Conflict
 Vulnerability Based Trust

3.  Head
 Heart
 Hands

4. “I don’t give a fig for the simplicity
this side of complexity, but I
would die for the simplicity on
the other side of complexity”
(Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes)

5. Learning and focusing on the
basics of how to communicate
well and then doing it are key to
leveraging your success as a
communicator.

6. * Assertive
* Animated
* Attentive
* Accurate

7.  Assertive: You can easily speak your
mind, directly and to the point!
 Animated: You are a talkative person who
is interactive, engaging and energetic!
 Attentive: You are a good listener, wait
your turn and are very supportive and
compassionate when you speak.
 Accurate: You are analytical, focus on
details and speak concisely and accurately.

9.  Confident of outcome
 Quick and Decisive
 Move forward aggressively

10.  Task and Personality Equilibrium
 Relationships!
 Connection vs. Command
 Awareness of Other Styles

11.  Informal, LOTS of talk!
 High energy, creative, expressive
 People energized

12.  Not detail oriented
 Can ignore conclusions or facts
 May be drawn to experience more
than the people
 Talking instead of listening

13.  Genuinely care for the person
 Communicate connection and
acceptance
 “Read” more than hear words

14.  Not everyone “feels” like you do
 Focus on purpose and process like
you do pain

15.  Strategic, detailed, consistent
 See obstacles and hurdles
 Deal in facts

16.  Lack of patience
 Rigidity and inflexibility
 Perfectionism

17. Who am I?
What am I presenting?
Who am I presenting to?
“When Jesus had finished saying these things, the
crowds were amazed at his teaching, because
he taught as one who had authority, and not as
their teachers of the law.”
(Matthew 7:28-29, NIV)

18.  Memorable?
 Unique?
 Interesting?
 Beneficial?

19. Assertives dream of building a healthy
future.
Animateds dream of building a healthy
team.
Attentives dream of building healthy
individuals.
Accurates dream of building a healthy
system.

20. “Your network (team) should not look just
like you. If it does, you have an anthill,
not a network.”
(Harvey MacKay, Dig Your Well Before You
are Thirsty )