TWINTEL Solutions

Karl Hedstrom

IT Director

NTEN

While communications styles may clash, we still need to find ways to work together. Knowing what your own style is may help.

We all have different communication styles. Often, they clash. It's an issue we all deal with in our workplace to some extent. Yes, even at nonprofits. 

I recently attended a workshop during the EDUCAUSE Institute New IT Managers Program, where we took one of the myriad of tests that help determine your primary communication style. For this particular test, explained in much more detail here, the different styles were:

• Thinker (Structure, logic, organization, problem solving)
• Feeler (Expression, human interaction, projecting feelings)
• Intuitor (Imagination, theory, envisioning, speculation)
• Sensor (Doing, competing, getting results)