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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