Playing with Style

Understanding personality styles to capitalize on your style is all the buzz. Playing with Style is a collection of 10 interpersonal skills training games and activities that help individuals quickly understand personality styles and learn the typical characteristics of each of the four personal styles in the HRDQ Style Model: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic.

The interpersonal skills training games and activities in the Playing with Style training package help individuals understand the strengths and potential trouble spots associated with each style. Individuals quickly build fluency in the different styles to improve their interpersonal skills and interact more effectively with others.

Playing with Style includes 10 card games plus an additional bonus game you can use as an icebreaker or closing activity. Each game takes approximately 15 to 30 minutes to facilitate and play. The choice is yours: play one, play some, or play them all.

The training games and activities in the Playing with Style package help develop a comprehension of the strengths and potential problem areas associated with each of the four personality styles. Individuals rapidly build fluency in several personal styles and work towards improving interpersonal skills and interacting more effectively with others. Playing with Style motivates people to take an active role in mastering individual styles.

Playing with Style is intended as supplemental learning and training activities to the HRDQ Style Suite. While it is possible to introduce the HRDQ Style Model using Playing with Style, it is most helpful to participants to have a working knowledge and understanding of their preferred dominant style and the basic characteristics of each of the four styles.

Playing with Style is an excellent way to expand, enhance, and reinforce the learning from the HRDQ Style Series training assessments. Here are just some of the ways you can use the instructional games:

• Introduction or follow-up to any of the Style Suite assessments
• Standalone training activities
• Ice breakers
• Energizers
• Refresher games
• Component of a management development workshop or training program

Complete Game Kit

Order one kit for up to 20 participants. Included games (with recommended group sizes):

• Speed (8-20)
• Which Style? (8-20)
• Personal Style Poker (8-20)
• Five Tricks (8-10)
• Quick Classification
• Grab It (5-6)
• Bluff (4-6)
• Auction Rummy (3-4)
• Match (3-4)
• Solo Style (1)

Included in the Complete Game Kit:

• Personal Style Card Deck
• Tablet of Feedback Tables
• Personal Style Summaries
• Facilitator Guide
• Reproducible Reference Content (Available as a digital download link in your order confirmation)
• Sturdy Carrying Case

Dr. Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan is the founder of The Thiagi Group, an organization with the mission of helping people improve their performance effectively and enjoyably. He has published 40 books, 120 games and simulations, and over 200 articles. He wrote the definitive chapters on simulations and games for ISPI’s Handbook of Human Performance Technology, ASTD’s Training & Development Handbook, and the American Management Association’s Human Resources Management and Development Handbook.

Thiagi currently writes a monthly online newsletter, Thiagi GameLetter. Now in its fifth year, this newsletter features Thiagi’s training games and other creative interventions that deliver results quickly and effectively. He served as the editor of both NSPI Journal and Performance & Improvement for more than ten years. He currently edits the simulation/game section in Sage Publications’ journal Simulation & Gaming. He is also a contributing editor at the monthly journal Educational Technology.

Tracy Tagliati, CPLP, has led a nomadic life. Born in Mildenhall, England, she grew up in the military in Europe, Japan, and the United States. Settling in Los Angeles, CA, she joined The Thiagi Group, an organization specializing in activity-based training for corporate clients. Before that, Tracy was VP of Sales and Training at Mindset Development, a Crestcom International training franchise, and was a corporate trainer at Mercury Insurance Group. She is active in ASTD (both at the national and the local chapter levels) and the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA).