How You Connect
Nearly all of the stress that keeps people awake at night involves other people. These four assessments map the patterns you bring into every relationship: how you bond, how you express yourself, how you handle disagreement, and how others experience your style. They are the foundation for the Sparks tools that help you decode difficult messages and navigate conflict with less anxiety.
You are not the same person in a boardroom and a kitchen
Three of these assessments, communication style, conflict style, and social styles, come in three editions: at work, at home, and in learning environments. This is not padding. Most of us are genuinely different people across those settings, and the differences are where the insight hides.
You might be assertive in a meeting and conflict-avoidant with your partner, warm and expressive at home while reading as clipped and analytical at work, patient with a colleague learning a new system and impatient with your own teenager. Take one edition and you learn a useful thing about yourself. Take two and you learn something far more valuable: the size of the gap, and what it costs you.
That gap is frequently the single most revealing number in a person’s profile. A large distance between your work conflict style and your home conflict style usually means one of the two settings is getting a version of you that you did not consciously choose. Sparks shows you which, and lets you decide whether to keep it. Start with the context that is causing you the most friction right now; the others will be waiting.
The Assessments:
This group of assessments includes:
Communication Style Assessment
Individually, each of these provide you practical insights into your dealings with others. Combined, our insights engine and PRISM analysis unlocks your ability to see yourself as others do. Understanding how others see you helps you navigate and manage relationships better, and with less stress.