Taibi Kahler's Process Communication Model
indicates 6 different personality types...
Here are their characteristics:
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HARMONISER |
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If your Personality Type is HARMONISER,
your character strengths are :
Compassionate, sensitive, and warm |
• To stimulate your attention and your interest, the person talking with you will use a warm and nurturing voice.
• You naturally communicate with this nurturative channel.
• To feel good and be efficient, you require being recognized as a person, i.e. want to hear "I care about you", "you're important to me". You desire unconditional acceptance of your person. And you require an environment that pampers the senses.
• Under light distress, in an interaction with other persons, you minimise yourself and what you do, think, or say, and give priority to the other. You may accept unpleasant situations or make "wishy-washy" decision.
Under severe distress, you may lack assertiveness, make mistakes, laugh at yourself or act "stupid", with hostility from the others as a consequence. |
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As a Harmoniser Type person, you are appreciated for :
• your warm relationship, your ability to nurture, be empathic and give to others.
• your ability to feel first and take in people and things by feeling about them.
• your sensibility, your ability to use your five senses and create harmony. |
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REBEL |
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If your Personality Type is REBEL,
your character strengths are :
spontaneous, creative and playful. |
• To stimulate your attention and your interest, the person talking to you will use an light, energetic and reactive way of communication.
• To feel good and be efficient, you require being stimulated and playful contact, with quick changes of situations and relationships. Your first reaction is often to like or dislike.
• Under light distress, in an interaction with other person, you may start to misunderstand the person in front of you. Everything seems boring and complicated to you. If distress increases, you could reject responsibility on the other and be insincere.
• You then require to get back in contact with him/her, playing, joking or laughing to come back to your natural efficiency. |
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As a Rebel person, you are appreciated for :
• your creativity : you may find solutions when others saw only problems.
• your ability to turn a boring task into a game.
• your spontaneity, source of positive energy and enthusiasm for others. |
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WORKAHOLIC |
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If your Personality Type is WORKAHOLIC,
your character strengths are :
Organised, responsible and logical |
• To stimulate your attention and your interest, the person talking to you will use a factual way of communication.
• You and him/her will communicate better through questions and exchange of information.
• To feel good and be efficient, you require being recognized for your thoughts and accomplishments. "Good work." "Great idea." "A job well done." You also require time structure and like to plan things, measure and control.
• Under light distress, in an interaction with an other person, you may require him/her to be aware of how hard you work, how responsible you are and what a good manager you are. You may also give too much details, with a lot of digressions, thinking you are clearer. If distress increases, you could over-control, take back what you delegated, attack others, and argue about money, order, or cleanliness.
• Then, you require to come back to your logical and structured way of thinking in order to regain your natural efficiency. |
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As a Workaholic Type person, you are appreciated for :
• your capability for organisation and detailed planning
• your logic in structuring ideas or issues and explaining quickly and clearly to the others.
• your ability to take responsibility, making you a trustworthy person in both your professional and personal relationships. |
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PROMOTER |
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If your Personality Type is PROMOTER,
your character strengths are :
Adaptable, persuasive, and charming. |
• To stimulate your listening and your interest, the person talking to you will use a powerful and direct way of communication.
• You do appreciate to communicate with this directive mode.
• You'll be particularly efficient faced with challenges, difficult and new things to do.
• To feel good and be efficient, you require incidence - a great deal of excitement in a short period of time. You do like the high level of energy situations.
• Under distress, in an interaction with another person, you may be impatient and see the other as too weak. Then, if distress increases, you could take thoughtless risks for your health, your interests or your business. You could manipulate to reach your goals without any consideration for others, overstep the limits, break the rules.
• You require to come back to your positive motivation and incidence to recover your natural efficiency.
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As a Promoter Type person, you are appreciated for :
• your charm, born from your direct way of communication and your focused compliments. Even if you may be considered tactless, you are appreciated as a good and pleasant companion.
• You are extraordinarily resourceful and you can get back on your feet after any setback. You always get moving again.
• You can adapt to any new situation or environment. You do like change and hate the routine. |
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DREAMER |
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If your Personality Type is DREAMER,
your character strengths are :
Calm, imaginative and reflective |
• To stimulate your attention and your interest, the person talking to you will use a clear, synthetic and direct way of communication.
• You don't react overtly. You take time to answer shortly if you are required to and you like others to consider the importance of what you say.
• You may require an external "starter" to do things and you spontaneously wait for others to get in contact.
• To feel good and be efficient, you require your own private time and space, reflection and introspection. You do not hesitate to "escape" during long meetings or discussions. This gives you the ability to endure difficult situations.
• Under light distress, in an interaction with other person, you may wait passively, thinking that time will solve the problem. Then, if distress increases, you could withdraw, not finishing the work you have started, or fall ill.
• You the require a time of solitude to regain your natural efficiency. |
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As a Dreamer Type person, you are appreciated for :
• your calm, however grave the situation, in which you are able to quietly analyse the different hypothesis or possible solutions.
• your ability to reflect and think about humanity. Observing yourself, you don't judge the others too quickly. your imagination for exploring all the hypothesis or possible options. |
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PERSISTER |
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If your Personality Type is PERSISTER,
your character strengths are :
Dedicated, observant and conscientious |
• To stimulate your attention and interest, the person talking to you will use a factual way of communication.
• You and him/her will communicate better through questions and exchange of information.
• To feel good and be efficient, you require your convictions/beliefs to be recognized. "I admire you." "I value your opinion." "What do you believe we should do ?" You also require being recognized for your accomplishments : "Good work." "Great idea." "A job well done."
• Under light distress, in an interaction with other person, you may focus on what is wrong ; then, if distress increases, you could push beliefs, be overly suspicious and righteous. "My opinion is the only right one."
• You require to regain trust in the person you are talking to to come back to your natural efficiency.
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As a Persister Type person, you are appreciated for :
• your ability to observe and give opinions, beliefs, judgments, ... on situations and persons.
• your conscientiousness in both professional and personal life. People often admire your morality, your ethics.
• your devotion to causes, a party, your company... and your tenacity in respecting your ideals, principles and values.
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