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The Human Communication Style

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Human communication is one of the most important aspects of life. Communication skills are important for ordinary people seeking to achieve their goals, but they are of greater importance when a person takes on an active leadership position. Leaders needs to communicate more effectively to be able to convince others of their ideas, plans and strategies. At the same time, it is leader’s responsibility to get the best work out of everyone, create an effective team environment and facilitate the dynamics of the group so that people will work well together as a collaborative unit. Leaders needs to understand how to communicate with people from diverse culture and communication style. However, being a chairman of a committee with an Instrumental-Expressive style and working with individuals with various communication style such as Instrumental, Expressive, reflective constitutes a significant challenge and therefore, it’s paramount to understand the team communication style and communicate with them the same way they like to be communicated.
Indeed, the Instrumental-Expressive person uses a blended style of communication. According to Professor Nelson Instrumental-Expressive person emphasizes the use of communication to get results, direct and honest, but also verbose and detailed, focuses on main ideas and outcomes, but presents entire thought process, verbally skilled- language is a weapon, interested in bottom line, but wants evidence and details, animated, energetic,

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