Chapter 11

Living and working with Energisers

Picking up physical and verbal cues helps us make more accurate inferences about what the other person is thinking and feeling so we can choose our response more appropriately and respond skilfully to help them fulfil their drives and meet their needs.

This chapter gives some hints and tips on how to adapt to and connect with someone who has the energiser style. Here is a reminder of their key characteristics.

Initiating role Informing communication Process focus People with the energiser style push for involvement:
They tend to move and speak quite quickly and expressively and appear enthusiastic and engaging.
They engage others to ...

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