Communication Style Types

Communication Style Types
Your Thinker score	Your Feeler score	Your Intuiter score	Your Do-er score
Each score ranges from a low of 10 to a high of 40. A higher score indicates this category is more like you. Your highest score shows your preferred method of communication. Complete detailed characteristic information is presented here for your convenience. If you prefer the one page summary for printing with just your highest score characteristics, please click the button below. Also included are links to more information. Links for navigational purposes are located at the bottom of this page.

Thinker		Feeler
Characteristics	Blind Spots	Characteristics	Blind Spots
Linear time view Logical Deductive Analytical Principled Objective Detail Oriented Cautious-risk adverse Considers Alternatives Systematic Frugal Structured Comparative Serious Persistent Habitual Moderation Oriented Must know reasons Accurate Factual Patient Precise Prefers activity Must have details Must have rationale Seeks suppport for thinking	Over Explain Be too noncommittal Use a monotone Not express feelings enough-lack of effect Appear pedantic Get involved in asking too many questions Want to organize in too rigid a fashion Give people more background than they really want Assume that others are as interested in technical details as you are Be overly formal in the way you do things	Past Oriented Personal Responsive Empathetic Accepting Receptive to suggestions Subjective Understanding Supportive Respectful Personable Prefers the familiar Flexible to others Encouraging Prefers Involvement Aware of feelings Diplomatic Agreeable People Oriented Relationship Oriented Influential Seeks Guarantees Enjoys getting attention Must know reasons why	Spend too much time talking about the past Forget to refer to facts Oversimplify Rely too much on personality and not on data Tell too many anecdotes or stories Take too long to get to your main point Avoid bringing unpleasant facts to the surface Spend too much time on the telephone Distort things without meaning to Use self-pity as a crutch Romanticize Relationsips See others as friends who aren't Overreact Bear Grudges

Intuiter		Do-er
Characteristics	Blind Spots	Characteristics	Blind Spots
Future Orientation Visionary Imaginative Idea Oriented Intellectual Individualistic Envisions Possibilities Cause Oriented Idealistic Dislikes Routine Unmoved by status Lets things happen Conceptual Sees big picture Prefers the new Sees answers quickly Seeks new problems Enjoys the complex Original Complex Values Recognition Tends to attack ideas	Be scattered in your comments-jump around a lot Raise too many issues Be too lengthy Appear Rigid Appear too judgmental Appear condescending Be too abstract Concentrate too much on the concept;not enough on practical considerations Leave issues dangling, unresolved	Present Orientation Efficient Practical Independent Assertive Results Oriented Decisive Opportunistic Risk Taker Competent Realist Focused Autocrat Self-confident Tactical Prefers Action Precise Verbally Direct Expedient Controlling Competitive Self-sufficient Pragmatic Measures tangible results Seeks Options	Try to resolve things too quickly Not ask enough questions Command Not wait to hear others' objections Come on too strong, overwhelm others Be so sure that you sound arrogant Insist that others agree with you Talk too fast Raise your voice and interrupt to control conversation Cut corners to get what you want Scheme Over-compete;interpret non-competitive activities as win-lose situations Be proud to a fault

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