Last week I attended a workshop hosted by CMA, the second installment of the “Impress for Success” series, the guest speaker this time around was Corey McCusker, who is a Mental Performance Coach, Motivational Speaker and author. She is certified as a Master Practitioner of NLP, Time Empowerment Techniques ™ and hypnosis.
It was a rather interesting workshop, identifying communication patterns and the best way to communicate and handle people. One thing I learned was that, there are four different kinds of communication characteristics. I am an Auditory Digital. Which one are you?
Abbas Hasnain, BBA ’16
Visual:
- Memorize by seeing pictures
- Less distracted by noise
- Bored by long verbal instructions
- Appearances are important to them
Auditory:
- Easily distracted by noise
- Talk to themselves
- Learn by listening
- Like music and talking on the phone
- Memorize by steps, procedures and sequences
- Tone of voice and words used are important
Kinesthetic:
- Move and talk slowly
- Respond to physical rewards and touching
- Memorize by doing or walking through something
- Stand closer to people
- Are interested in stuff if it “feels right”, or gives them a gut feeling
Auditory Digital:
- Spend a fair amount of time talking to themselves
- Memorize by steps, procedures and sequences
- Try to make sense of things
- Exhibit characteristics of other communication preferences
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