However, with a few simple guidelines, any type can communicate well with any other type. Generally speaking, intuitives and sensors will “speak the language” of like-minded intuitives and sensors. Have you ever felt eloquent and fascinating when talking to certain people and flustered and clumsy when talking to others? Personality type differences can make communication a struggle or a joy depending on which type you are working with. “Information gathered from Mark Murphy’s Forbes article entitled “Which of These 4 Communication Styles are You?”.How to Communicate Effectively with Every Myers-Briggs® Personality Type What is your communication style? For more information on developing your communication skills and discovering what your style is, head over to our resources page and browse through the tools we provide. Negative: You can come across as overly emotional, especially in communication with analytical communicators. You may serve as the “glue” that holds groups together with your strong emotional intelligence, diplomatic ability to smooth over conflicts and passion for maintaining good health in your relationships. Positive: Your ability to connect with others on a personal level allows you to form deep relationships. They tend to be good listeners and care about assessing how people think and feel. Personal communicators value emotional language and connecting with others. Negative: You may lose the attention of your audience if you allow your objective to get bogged down with details, especially if you have an audience of functional communicators. Others will value your love for process and detail and look to you to play devil’s advocate. Positive: Your attention to detail enables you to include every aspect in a situation. They like to include every detail and display things in a step-by step fashion, the opposite of intuitive communicators. The Functional Communicatorįunctional communicators like well-thought-out plans and processes. Because you are process driven and detail oriented, it can be difficult to interact with functional communicators. Negative: You may lack the patience for situations that require great attention to detail. Due to your natural ability to view things large scale, you have a strong urge to challenge the way things are usually done. Positive: Your communication is quick and to the point, you don’t get caught up in too many details and you’re comfortable with the big idea. As opposed to functional communicators who like to hear things in perfect linear order, intuitive communicators would rather jump right to the end. Intuitive communicators like to see the big picture or a broad overview of the situation, avoiding getting lost in the details, cutting right to the chase. Negative: You may come across as callous and emotionless, especially when interacting with personal communicators who value warm and conversational personal relationships. Positive: You are relatively unemotional view of situations allows you to interpret issues logically and factually, and others will value you for your informational expertise and objectivity. Those with an analytical communication style are largely receptive to people who are in command of facts and data and don’t identify well with emotional words. The Analytical CommunicatorĪnalytical communicators like concrete data and numbers and tend to have a strong aversion to ambiguity. New York Times bestselling author Mark Murphy, has spent decades researching interpersonal communication and developed four fundamental communication styles to help you understand the ways in which you communicate and how your style coincides with those of others: 1.
Becoming an effective communicator not only includes honing in on key skills, such as how to adapt your message to your target audience, but also an understanding of your own communication style. Having exceptional communication skills is among the top attributes employers look for in potential hires.