TeamRelate helps you understand your communication style, and how you can adapt your style to communicate better with your team. TeamRelate profiles have two main components: a communication style and core convictions.
Note: TeamRelate is an English-only engagement tool and isn’t available for other languages or culture settings.
Communication Styles
Your communication style is the set of behaviors that you naturally use when you communicate. There are four communication styles, and people with these communication styles are often described as follows:
- Director: Direct, driven, and fast-paced.
- Encourager: Enthusiastic, warm, and optimistic.
- Facilitator: Calm, patient, and deliberate.
- Tracker: Careful, tactful, and accurate.
Note: These descriptions are high-level. Your TeamRelate profile can provide far more detailed information about your specific communication style.
Typically, one or two of these styles tend to dominate each person's communication preferences. For example, Macon's communication style is Tracker-Encourager, which means that his primary style is Tracker, but in certain situations he favors Encourager, instead:
This doesn't mean that Macon can communicate using only these two styles. Everyone uses all four styles to some degree, particularly when adapting to other people's communication styles.
Core Convictions
Your core convictions are the motivators for your behavior. There are four core convictions, and people with these core convictions are often motivated as follows:
- Ambition: Motivated by constant improvement for themselves and their organization.
- Belief: Motivated by integrity and ethical standards for themselves and in their workplace.
- Compassion: Motivated by helping others.
- Discipline: Motivated by completing tasks or goals.
As with communication styles, each person is primarily motivated by one or two of the core convictions, although everyone possesses each of the convictions to some degree.