E-types are drivers who wear their feelings on their sleeves, while I-type drivers just want to get past the latest roadblock and do something about it.
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Roadmap For A Successful Marriage
Do you have a “roadmap” for a successful relationship or marriage, framed and hanging on a wall in your home? Of course you do. You wouldn’t leave from home on a long trip without consulting a map or expert regarding your travel plans. As a marriage counselor, the first question I ask is: “What are [...]
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How To Talk To An Insensitive Person?
Some road conditions or talk barriers really turn off Instigator-type (I-type) communicators. If you want the I-type to talk with you instead of lecture you, steer clear of emotions, which are a big roadblock or barrier to good communication, in the I-type viewpoint. Unless you want your communicator car to slide off Talk Highway into [...]
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How To Give The Green Light Of Good Feedback
What gives the green light to constructive feedback when talking to your Instigator-type (I-type) co-communicators who can be thick-skinned, hardheaded, hard-handed and hard of hearing? If you prefer direct, no-nonsense feedback that drives the point home, then you’re likely an I-type as well. Do you flip on the cruise control when you order up [...]
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Falling Out Of Love?
Have you lost that loving feeling? In my relationship communications coaching, I hear: “I love my partner but I’m not in love with him or her anymore.” Whoa, let’s slow down here. Love isn’t indestructible. It’s rather like a crystal vase, a beautiful, fragile vessel that shatters against the rough treatment of a hardened heart. [...]
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Feedback Barriers Of The Sensitive Person
What feedback barriers ice good communication? In the talk world of Empathizers, or E-types, what red lights turn off the delivery of useful feedback? Or, more specifically, what puts off or stops two-way communication lines from being open for these sensitive souls? What are the barriers or roadblocks that shut down the process of correcting [...]
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