Communication Assessments

This week as we were asked to have two other people who know me, assess my communication characteristics did not surprise me in how close the scores were because I asked my spouse of 33 years and my best friend and training partner to assess my communication skills each has seen me in different settings, but both know me very well.  I think the results might have been different had I chosen someone else.  What did surprise me is that we were within 1 point of each other on the verbal aggressiveness scale and it was the scale I had the hardest time deciding how to answer.  I do not consider myself aggressive in nature and do not like the trait in others, so when I scored midway on the scale I wasn’t happy, but in reading the description I felt a little better about it. 

I wasn’t sure how to use my score on the last assessment so I just read the descriptions and decided I am probably either in the people oriented or action oriented grouping.  I think probably the action oriented is the right category, because when I train I want participants to want to make changes and improve practices, it frustrates me when I do not see the same longing in them.