Flow Perceptual Style and Change

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Change and the Flow Perceptual Style

Matt’s Perceptual Style™ is FLOW.

Matt distrusts radical change.

Matt values tradition, time-proven processes, and present arrangements.

He believes progress depends on integrating these three elements and that people who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

He welcomes new events that support your traditions and values and will adapt smoothly to change that you feel is connected to the flow of your personal experience.

Matt deeply distrusts arbitrary change because he intuitively sees the impacts and ripple effects on the people involved. Others often seek Matt out during times of upheaval because his skills are invaluable to restoring stability, coherence, and identity.

He experiences change as a significant disruption to harmony and cooperation.

Experience has taught him that often more will go wrong with change than will go right.

When it comes to change, Matt believes that any necessary change must be planned out well in advance of implementation, with all the consequences thought through and people prepared gently and sensitively.

When given time and support, you can be highly effective in preparing yourself and others for change by facilitating the actual change process and minimizing its disruptive effect.

Matt skillfully settles environments that have been unsettled and tend to people that have been bruised by hasty or clumsy change efforts.

Your Perceptual Style represents the way you see the world and how you react to it

Some changes are surprises,

some changes you initiate,

and some changes just feel inevitable.

That's why adaptability is a critical life skill.

Your Activity Perceptual Style and Change

Change is constant; it's part of your daily life. There are changes in the weather, the economy, relationships, work situations, etc. Just living each day and aging brings change.

Adaptability is defined as the ability to adjust to new conditions or circumstances. Tapping into your strengths related to your adaptability can mean the difference between excessive worry and stress versus dealing with changes on your terms.

There isn't just one way to be adaptable. The real key to adaptability is knowing what is comfortable for you and how to establish that comfort level with the changes in your life.

Each of the six Perceptual Styles has a unique skill set that allows them to recognize and adapt to change.

The more you know about your Perceptual Style, the more you can tap into your natural strengths and potential. That’s because there’s an extensive set of skills and behaviors that naturally align with each Perceptual Style.

Perceptual Style Theory™, created by Gary M. Jordan, PhD, and Lynda-Ross Vega, defines six unique Perceptual Styles.

Perceptual Style represents a unique grouping of fundamental aspects of being human that results in a distinctive experience and characteristic behaviors.

Have you met all of our Perceptual Style representatives? Press the blue tabs below to read about each specific Perceptual Style.

The people above represent each Perceptual Style—Tina is Activity, Pam is Adjustments, Matt is Flow, Anne is Goals, Jack is Methods, and Dan is Vision. Who did you identify with most?

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Awareness of the other five Perceptual Styles and how they differ from you provides incredible insights about your relationships with family and friends.

All six Perceptual Styles are normal and healthy ways of perceiving the world. None is better than or more accurate in its perception than any other. Each has unique strengths and specific blind spots. All shine in some situations and struggle in others.

Let's look at a few of the strengths of each Perceptual Style in the area of "Adaptability":

ACTIVITY

  • You view change as just another part of life to be experienced.

  • You believe that there are stable fundamental patterns and that change is just different variations of these basic patterns.

  • You are comfortable with change and use it to stay interested, stimulated, and involved.

  • While you enjoy novelty, you are disturbed by anything that challenges or threatens to change the fundamental patterns you know to be true.

ADJUSTMENTS

  • You recognize the inevitability of change.

  • You prefer to approach change incrementally, proceeding through well-defined steps to a well-defined objective.

  • You know how changing even minor details can have dramatic effects and a significant impact.

  • While you distrust wholesale or capricious change, you are skilled at introducing change in the least disruptive manner.

FLOW

  • you distrust radical change.

  • You experience change as a significant disruption to harmony and cooperation.

  • You are aware of the ripple effect of change across the entire environment and its unintended impact on people’s lives.

  • You believe that any necessary change must be planned out well in advance of implementation, with all the consequences thought through and people prepared gently and sensitively.

     

GOALS

  • You are a champion for change.

  • You are stimulated by the challenge inherent in finding new ways to do something.

  • You are quickly bored with repetition and routine as you experience both as being without challenge.

  • You will alter, rethink, and completely revamp processes that work well simply because you find them stale or stagnant.

METHODS

  • You view change as an inevitable alteration necessary to respond to and accommodate new facts.

  • You do not understand the need for bold sweeping changes and experience them as foolish and unnecessary.

  • You view change initiated without solid analysis as inefficient, wasteful, and harmful.

  • You do not accept a proposed change immediately. You need time to consider the relevant pros and cons before deciding to adapt or resist.

VISION

  • You see change as inevitable and desirable.

  • You believe that new opportunities and advantages only arise when things change.

  • You believe that resisting change is futile and wastes time that could be better spent shaping the change to your advantage.

  • You move towards a broadly defined vision of the future and often discount the impact and disruption of change to the people around you.

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Collaboration: Teamwork and Cooperation
Perceptual Styles and Teamwork

Interacting in cooperation with others is a fundamental part of life, and it's a critical ingredient for families, friendships, school activities, and work and social environments. Practically every aspect of your life is an opportunity for collaboration.

Collaboration is at the core of participating in community—whether that community is your family, workplace, friends, or other groups of people.

Yet collaboration can be very challenging because we must deal with people who see things differently than we do and have different strengths and weaknesses. ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays in your approach to Collaboration.

Relationships

Personal relationships can be the most challenging relationships – but you already know that! From a special someone, life partner, or spouse, to parents, children, siblings, grandparents and extended family, these are the people who form the inner circle of our lives, the people we love.

We expect more from our personal relationships than our friendships or work relationships because the emotional bonds are stronger and are built on shared experience that grow over time. These are the people we look to for love, understanding, trust, loyalty, respect, kindness, forgiveness, shared values, companionship, affection, attention, sympathy, encouragement, acceptance. That’s a lot of pressure to put on a relationship! It’s no wonder these relationships need extra attention and commitment.

One fascinating aspect of personal relationships many people overlook is related to Perceptual Style. It’s very likely your loved ones won’t share the same Perceptual Style you do. ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays in your relationships.

Perceptual Styles and Relationships
Communications
Perceptual Styles and Communications

We all want to be understood. So, we search for the right words and the right tone to convey our message. We often fail to recognize that each of us has a built-in communication filter and because of that filter, what we mean isn't always what others hear and vice versa.

Disconnects in communication happen to all of us. It’s not because we’re not smart enough, and it’s not because other people aren’t smart enough. It’s not because you aren’t listening or trying to connect. It’s because the words you choose, the meaning you intend, and the triggers you hear are influenced by your Perceptual Style.

Words are a code we put on our thoughts and ideas in order to communicate our intention and meaning to others. The code you use daily to speak, write, and listen is highly dependent on how you perceive the world. ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays in your communications.

Adaptability (a.k.a "Change")

Change is constant; it's part of your daily life. There are changes in the weather, the economy, relationships, work situations, etc. Just living each day and aging brings change.

Some changes are surprises, some changes you initiate, and some changes just feel inevitable. That's why adaptability is a critical life skill.

Adaptability is defined as the ability to adjust to new conditions or circumstances. Tapping into your strengths related to your adaptability can mean the difference between excessive worry and stress versus dealing with changes on your terms.

Embracing your adaptability strengths will help you choose work environments, relationships, and social situations where you will thrive and avoid those that will drag you down. ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays in your view of change.

Perceptual Styles and Change
Conflict
Perceptual Styles and Conflict

You would think that human beings, given their hard-wiring to seek community, would have found a solution to interpersonal conflict eons ago. No such luck. In fact, interpersonal conflict is a natural outcome of human interaction. People see the world differently, have different values and expectations, and don't always share the same goals or options.

It's helpful to keep in mind that everyone wants to belong and be valued, and no one wants to be disliked. If you can start from the assumption that other people mean well and don't intend to irritate or insult you, it's easier to realize they just don't see the situation the same way you do (most likely, they have a different Perceptual Style).

When you keep this concept in mind, it takes some of the stings out of disconnects. It's not personal; it's a different perspective.

Some conflict in your life is inevitable. Whether the conflicts are minor or severe, you possess natural skills to help you deal effectively with opposition and disagreement. ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays in your approach to conflict.

Leadership

The essence of Leadership is defined as inspiring and guiding a group of people to achieve a common goal. At the core, leadership combines art and science to attract followers, point out a direction, then guide and influence your followers to achieve objectives.

Many will try to sell you on the idea that effective leadership is a one-size-fits-all proposition. Or that if you're not naturally outgoing or authoritative or visionary, you can't be an effective leader. It's just not true. Real leadership success happens from the inside out - using your natural strengths to guide and inspire others to great achievement.

Everyone has the capacity to be an effective, even exceptional, leader. There’s not just one set of traits or behaviors that guarantee success. There is YOUR way to be a leader, built on your natural strengths. ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays in your approach to Leadership.

Perceptual Styles and Leadership
Learning Preferences
Perceptual Styles and Learning

Learning as an adult is a different experience than when you are a child. The primary driver of that difference is that adult learning is much more self-directed.

There are three general learning Methods: Visual (pictures, graphs, written word), Auditory (stories, songs, discussions), and Kinesthetic (experiential, activities, role-playing).

Because of your Perceptual Style, you respond to all three learning methods but prefer a unique combination of the learning methods to maximize your knowledge and growth. ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays in your learning preferences.

Persuasion (a.k.a "Sales")

Persuasion is the act of convincing others to agree with your point of view, adopt a particular perspective, or take a course of action you suggest. It's the process of presenting information and reasons that motivate or change someone else's thinking.

Just like the word "sales", we think of persuasion as positive when the intentions and results are positive for both parties and negative when the intentions are manipulative and the results aren't in the other person’s best interest.

These skills help you interact effectively with others at home and work. Imagine what planning a family vacation would be like if you didn't have persuasion skills! ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays in your approach to sales.

Perceptual Styles and Sales
Self-Motivation
Perceptual Styles and Motivation

In its simplest form, self-motivation is the ability to get yourself to do something. It creates personal enthusiasm and inspiration to take action.

Self-Motivation is the catalyst for goals you make for yourself. Self-motivation creates your desire to accomplish your goals, establishes your commitment to action, and helps you overcome your fears of the unknown or failing.

Self-Motivation is a critical life skill because it keeps you putting one foot in front of the other every day. Self-motivation is what spurs you to action for both what you want to do and what you need to do. ...click to learn more about the role that Your Perceptual Style plays on your motivation.

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