Communicating about Communication Styles
The Toastmasters Pathways project I am working on now is "Understanding Your Communication Style." It's a project I've done before, but it is always interesting to revisit as it challenges me to think about how I prefer to communicate. What I found most interesting this time through is that word I was thinking of to describe my communication style ("direct") is one of the options the project presents, but it is not the one I scored highest in. Though my scores were all pretty close to one another, my highest score was in "initiating." As it had been a while since I read the descriptions of these different styles as Toastmasters defines them, my initial reaction was to be a bit surprised. However, when I read the descriptions of the different styles, I had to agree that "initiating" fit me best. I found nearly every aspect of the description of "initiating" relatable, whereas the descriptions of the other styles were more ...