Recognize Interaction Styles and Improve Your Influence
Interaction Styles are a way of observing behaviors in others in order to predict their preferences.
Once you recognize others’ Interaction Styles and adapt to their natural ways of working, you become more influential.
Interaction Styles are easy to remember, practical to implement and useful to leaders, teams, sales professionals and others.
People Who Benefit from Interaction Styles
Individual contributors who work in project teams and need to collaborate well. | Supervisors who lead diverse teams of individuals, often with large spans of control. | Managers who deal with internal and external stakeholders to manage functions and businesses. |
Sales Representatives and Account Managers who must quickly build rapport and influence others. | Human Resource Professionals who act as internal consultants on change initiatives. | Senior Leaders and others who need to deliver vision and direction for the future. |
Interaction Styles Are Useful In Many Situations
Improve Communication
Improve Communication
By better understanding individual preferences
Reduce Conflicts
Reduce Conflicts
Caused by different approaches to work and participation.
Build Trust
Build Trust
Through a common team language.
Create Rapport
Create Rapport
In shorter periods of time with new prospects.
Present Solutions
Present Solutions
In a way that appeals to the individual customer.
Prevent Objections
Prevent Objections
By knowing what will more likely gain customer support.
Improve Delegation Success
Improve Delegation Success
By sharing only the information that matters to employees.
Reduce Tension With Direct Reports
Reduce Tension With Direct Reports
Caused by different approaches to communication.
Avoid Derailers
Avoid Derailers
By recognizing personal leadership traits and their value.