Top Communication Style Assessment Tools
Bradford R. GlaserThe ability to effectively communicate in the office is absolutely vital to the success of any organization. Clear and open communication allows colleagues to collaborate smoothly, fostering teamwork and minimizing misunderstandings. It enables supervisors and managers to provide clear guidance and constructive feedback, which helps to motivate and lead their teams more effectively. Additionally, strong communication skills empower employees to build and maintain healthy, professional relationships with clients, enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty.
If you’re looking to strengthen your team’s communication capabilities, one of the best places to start is by understanding their unique communication styles. To support this, HRDQ offers a selection of top communication style assessment tools designed to identify individual preferences and improve interpersonal interactions across the workplace. These tools can provide valuable insights that lead to more productive conversations, stronger collaboration, and a healthier work environment overall.
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Are you looking for additional ways to improve your employees’ communication skills? Browse the HRDQ Communication Skills Collection for even more assessments, workshops, and training materials!
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What's My Communication Style
Understand your employees’ office personalities and communication methods using What’s My Communication Style. This half-day workshop begins with a 24-question assessment to identify participants’ communication styles. The four primary communication styles are direct, spirited, considerate, and systematic. From there, your team will partake in practice activities to learn how to identify different styles and “flex” their communication type to appeal to others.
Neurolinguistic Communication Profile
Communication is not just auditory – it is also visual and kinesthetic. The Neurolinguistic Communication Profile (NCP) assesses sensory modality, thinking style, and preferred mode of expression. Based on these characteristics, a 60-question communication style assessment will create your communication profile. After a thorough review, participants will be able to identify the strengths and weaknesses they can improve to become more effective communicators.
Team Communication Inventory
Learn how to engage in healthy team discussions using the Team Communication Inventory. This training tool identifies the tendencies and roles each team member usually has in a discussion. Understanding the group dynamics, including individual areas of improvement, will help your team come together to make better decisions, produce quality work, and solve issues.
Presentation Skills Profile
Ease the stress associated with public speaking with the Presentation Skills Profile. Not only will this assessment help your team create compelling presentations, but they’ll also learn how to deliver them flawlessly. Presentation Skills Profile begins with a quick assessment that gives participants a presentation score. After the training, peers submit feedback forms to create a feedback profile. You can compare this with the initial presentation scores to identify key areas of improvement.
Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment
The Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment is specifically designed for management development. This 50-item test accurately measures emotional intelligence on five scales: perceiving, managing, decision-making, achieving, and influencing. The test results will help supervisors understand the importance of emotional intelligence, view their level of emotional intelligence, identify situations in which they should apply these skills, and better connect with their teams.
Learning to Listen
While speaking is one part of communication, listening plays an equally important role. Learning to Listen teaches participants key skills to become effective and attentive listeners. You only need about an hour to complete this fantastic assessment. By the end, your team will understand the key skills required for effective listening, the visible and invisible aspects of listening, and what it takes to physically and mentally listen. Additionally, as a team, you’ll create a plan to put these newly learned skills into action.
Interpersonal Influence Inventory
The Interpersonal Influence Inventory takes a closer look at the aggressive influence style. This style is the most effective for individual success and organizational performance when resolving misunderstandings, negotiating deals, and leading teams. That said, this training aims to help participants develop assertiveness skills. Participants will learn how to directly express their views while also considering the opinions of others, which is key to yielding positive workplace results.
More Training Materials from HRDQ
We hope you consider trying some of these top communication style assessment tools from HRDQ! If you’d like to implement more educational materials and training workshops to enhance your team, explore our full collection of soft skills training materials in the HRDQ Reproducible Training Library. This virtual library is filled with easy-to-use assessments and workshops that can help to improve many facets of organizational life. The content can also be customized to the unique needs of your team.
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These are great opportunities to engage in positive communication skills.
I would also suggest the CCAI – Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory – especially in today’s environment of division, Black Lives Matter, police aggression, immigration issues and bi-polarization of many issues and politics. They are also important to individual adaptation to the pandemic, and various stages of “opening” and possible setbacks. Read more at:
https://www.realworldsolutions.us/blog