Part of Team Tipton’s Professional Development Toolkit.
Your Preferred Communication Style: “Rule Checker”
Summary:
You process communication by looking outward to systems, structures, and validations. You’re quick to compare messages against policies, data, or group consensus. Others may see you as pragmatic and grounded, but sometimes too rule-bound or overly focused on external standards.
Focus Areas:
Evidence-based validation, external frameworks, case studies, research by outside experts.
Supportive Ideas:
- Reflect on times when you might have waited too long to act. Why?
- Seek opportunities to listen to your “gut feel” or intuition.
- Share your reasoning before it’s fully completed.
- Seek areas where emotional or relational factors might help.
Your results are similar to this graphic, but not exactly the same. We’d love to share your personalized results with you when you choose one of the four offerings we share below.
Considerations:
Strengths in Interaction:
“Watch-Outs”:
Opportunities:
Your Expectations:
Anchors conversations in evidence and rules.
May be rigid, overly reliant on precedent.
Seek to build flexibility and adaptability when external rules don’t apply or don’t exist.
You expect others to cite policies, data, or benchmarks in their communication with you. Feelings are superfluous.
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Next Steps = Learn More and Apply Your Results
15-Page Personalized Workbook
(For You As a Rule Checker):
Benefits: Amplify Your Strengths to Communicate with Clarity.
- Strengthen Your Impact: Learn practical strategies to communicate with clarity, confidence, and empathy across diverse settings.
- Grow with Intention: Build daily habits and long-term goals that turn your communication tendencies into leadership superpowers.
Table of Contents:
- Background Related to the Communication Style Diagnostic and an Introduction to All 16 Communication Styles
- Personalized Results — Your Graph and Specifics for What It Means to be a Rule Checker
- 3 Overarching Steps to Move Forward in Strengthening Your Impact
- Exploring and Setting Time-Boxed Goals
- Strategies To Communicate with Other Styles
- Intentional Daily Activities
- Tracking Outcomes
- Journaling
2-Person Composite Report
(co-workers, partners, spouses):
Benefits: Bridge Different Minds to Power-Up Understanding.
- Understand Each Other’s Core Strengths: e.g., explore how precision and depth might complement adaptability and emotional intelligence.
- Spot Natural Tension Points: Identify where different pacing, decision styles, or communication preferences may lead to friction — and how to navigate them skillfully.
- Activate Synergy: Learn tailored strategies to align logic with flexibility, turning two distinct communication styles into a high-functioning partnership.
Table of Contents:
- Background Related to the Communication Style Diagnostic and an Introduction to All 16 Communication Styles
- Personalized Graphs for Both Individuals
- Composite Analysis for the 2-Person Team: (strengths, challenges, opportunities, suggested composite communication style)
- Details for All Three Communication Styles: (One for each person and one for the composite of both individuals)
Fully Customized Team Composite Report
(for teams up to 12 individuals):
Same benefits and table of contents as #2 above but for entire teams.
- Executive leadership teams, management teams, project teams, boards of directors, city/county councils, etc.
The Art of Five-Star Communications
(for anyone):
Online or In-Person Workshops and/or Courseware.
“The Art of Five-Star Communications” is a comprehensive learning experience related to effective communications. By participating, you will learn concrete insights and tools related to all 16 communications styles (e.g., rule checkers, rational architects, balanced strategists, etc.) and how you can become more effective in your communications with them.
Learning Objectives:
- Make messages resonate, stick, and mobilize action.
- Balance clarity and empathy — learn how to adapt your message for different audiences without diluting your intent.
- Effective listening is the foundation of exceptional communication — learn proven approaches related to how to be a better listener, both actively and visibly.
- Learn how to incorporate practical techniques to avoid common leadership communication pitfalls like ambiguity, over-complication, or unintentional misalignment.
