Effective Communication is essential in any workplace for teamwork, achieving objectives, and creating value. However, misunderstandings often lead to conflicts, posing ongoing challenges. Without communication skills training, teams risk decreased productivity, hindered progress, and missed targets.

What's My Communication Style equips you to manage these issues and substantially enhance communication abilities, benefiting both yourself and your organization.

If you already know about DISC-based personality tools, What's My Communication Style provides a straightforward alternative focusing specifically on communication habits. Unlike DISC, which takes a wider look at personality traits, this communication skills training zeroes in on practical communication behaviors that are useful for everyday interactions.

With flexible options for online or in-person learning, including assessments, Facilitator Guides, workshops, and other materials to help construct a comprehensive growth plan, there's a solution for every learner.

Participants respond to 24 statements, choosing from four answers that each reflect one of four primary communication styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, or Systematic. In less than 20 minutes, users receive a summary highlighting their dominant style and scores across all styles. 

A subsequent instructor-led session teaches learners how to quickly identify others' styles and adapt their approach for better conversations. 

Central to What’s My Communication Style is the HRDQ Style Model, inspired by the work of William Moulton Marston, Carl Jung, and other behavioral science leaders. This model provides a practical framework for understanding how people communicate and interpret messages. 

By using What’s My Communication Style, individuals at every organizational level gain valuable, actionable insights to improve their daily communication. 

By the end of this communication skills training, participants will:

• Identify a personal preference for one of four behavioral styles
• Develop an awareness of personal behavior patterns while communicating
• Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each style
• Learn how to interact with different styles
• Create an action plan to apply in the workplace immediately

What's My Communication Style can be delivered online, in person, or as blended learning. The assessment can stand alone but is enhanced by a four-hour instructor-led course with group reflection, activities, and action planning. Facilitators also receive a one-page outline for brief “lunch-and-learn” sessions. 

Print Facilitator Guide

The Facilitator Guide provides all the necessary materials for a successful training session, including background information, activities, and instructions for running assessments and workshops. 

The guide includes sample Style accessories: Style Model Wall Poster, Communication Style HRDQue Card, and a sheet of Style Stickers. Downloadable support materials include a PowerPoint, Learning Overview, Theory Background, FAQ, Certificate of Achievement, Program Evaluation, and a sample Online Assessment Report. 

Onsite Print Assessment 5-Pack

Print Assessments are best for facilitators who prefer direct oversight of the scoring and administration process, when participant identities are unknown prior to the session, or when learners have limited access to computers. The assessment iIncludes introduction, questions, scoring form, and basic debrief.

Print Workbook 5-Pack

The workbook complements the assessment by helping learners better understand their assessment and the HRDQ Style Model. The workbook includes learning activities and provides a personal development plan.

Facilitator Credits for Online Assessments

Online assessments are administered to participants by facilitators through the HRDQ Assessment Center and include a personalized overview web report and a detailed PDF report with charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. 

Note: A low-cost administrator account is required for facilitating online assessments. Credits purchased here will be automatically transferred into your administrator account.  

Self-Enrollment Online Assessment

Students and individual learners may take a self-guided online version of the assessment without a facilitator and without the requirement to set up an HRDQ Assessment Center administrator account.

This option is also for trainers to evaluate the online assessment before delivering it to a group of learners.

To purchase and complete a self-guided online experience, you must order your assessments from our Online Learning Self-Enrollment page. 

Communication Style HRDQue Cards

An excellent takeaway for participants, each 4"x6" Communication Style HRDQue Card is a quick-reference tool that features the HRDQ Personality Style Model and summarizes how to "flex" each style while communicating with others. Communication Style HRDQue Cards are available for purchase in 5-packs.

Personality Style at Work – Companion Book

Gain a better understanding of how your behaviors affect your performance and interactions with others with Personality Style at Work. Written by Kate Ward in collaboration with HRDQ, this book offers an in-depth look at how to communicate with all personality styles in the workplace. 

You'll learn how your personality style influences how others see you, governs the kinds of career choices you make, affects the way you make decisions, determines how you lead others, and plays a significant role in the way you communicate. Personality Style at Work is an excellent read and the perfect companion for any HRDQ Style Series title.

Style Suite Stickers

Style Suite Stickers are a perfect way to liven up your next session! Participants have fun and engage more when their own personality is on display. The stickers also serve as a friendly reminder that flexing one's style is the key to effectively working with others. One 5-pack of Style Suite Sticker Sheets provides 100 stickers in total (25 of each style).

Style Model Wall Poster

The 17" x 22" poster can be used as a quick reference and visual aid during the workshop. The reverse side features the HRDQ Experiential Learning Model. Additional copies of the poster are available for purchase, as many facilitators tell us they like to display training posters at various locations in the workplace.

QuickStart Train-the-Trainer (QST)

QST is a convenient, one-hour virtual coaching session for first-time facilitators of this product. You'll receive personalized, one-on-one coaching with a subject matter expert who will get you up to speed quickly and accurately so you can step into the onsite with confidence. We'll answer all your questions about the facilitation of the product. And you can add additional coaching hours as needed. Your coaching session can be provided by telephone or video call and at a time of your choosing. Purchase of the Facilitator Guide is required for the session. 

Facilitators will also receive an HRDQ Certificate of Completion for completing the QuickStart session.

We can deliver this workshop for you

An HRDQ consultant will facilitate this training event virtually or onsite. Includes a four-hour session where learners take a deep dive into communication-style training.

The HRDQ Development Team creates soft-skill learning solutions to enhance performance for individuals and groups. For over 40 years, our Experiential Learning Model has promoted lasting change through practical, adult-focused learning.