Communication Style Checklist

This Communication Style checklist will help you to identify your own preferred communication style so that you come across with confidence and empathy. The ability to communicate is an essential life skill and everyone has their own style that they naturally adapt and develop to suit the different environments they operate in. Our need to educate, inform, persuade or entertain drives our communications.

This checklist will help you to identify your own preferred communication style so that you come across with confidence and empathy. The ability to communicate is an essential life skill and everyone has their own style that they naturally adapt and develop to suit the different environments they operate in. Our need to educate, inform, persuade or entertain drives our communications.

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There are four basic communication styles that can be described by the way you act in the majority of your communications. Do you need to:

• Take a very active role in the communications.
• Connect and empathize with others.
• Have time to think and respond.
• Follow a logical path.
• Use a combination of the four.

To find out whether or not you favor a particular way of communicating read the statements and highlight those which best describe how you like to behave when communicating if there where no other aspects to consider and address.

Be honest with yourself so that you get a true picture of your style. It is only by knowing who you really communicate that you will be able to develop your communication skills to suit any situation you encounter.