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Will stay connected when others:

  • Keep the conversation on a personal level
  • Recognize the Encourager for their contribution and boost their self-esteem
  • Ask the Encourager for their opinion and advice
  • Are being expressive and harmonious
  • Are being enthusiastic and positive
  • Who enjoy having fun, while building strong relationships
Tends to disconnect when others:
  • Require the Encourager to remember too many details
  • Are taking a power position
  • Talk slowly and with no passion
  • Demonstrate a lack of interest in what the Encourager feels is important
  • Don’t consider the Encourager’s feelings
  • Are being too logical

What Encouragers like people to know about themselves:

  • They are very loyal and can be trusted
  • They are an out-of-the-box creative thinker
  • They work best in an environment that is free from constraints and supervision
  • They have an optimistic, can-do attitude
  • They are competitive, fast paced, and expressive

What Encouragers don’t recognize or like to admit in themselves:

  • When they get angry, they tend to also get even
  • They start or get involved in many projects and finish very few
  • Because they don’t like details, they many times miss the most obvious details

Some things Encouragers want others to see in themselves:

  • Who I am: Fun loving person
  • Purpose: Be popular
  • Value to the organization: People skills, momentum, sharing of ideas
  • Under stress becomes: Dictatorial, vengeful
  • Worries about: Self worth and social approval
  • Would be more successful by: Listening for detail, slowing down, and more follow-through

Things you rarely observe Encouragers doing:

  • Spending time alone
  • Making detailed lists
  • Speaking with their hands in their pockets

How to be in touch with Encouragers:

  • Be passionate about what they stand for
  • Value their relationship
  • Don’t be stuffy and unbending
  • Congratulate them when a job is well done
  • Don’t try to change them; accept them for who they are

Those who really understand Encouragers say:

  • “I like having them at the party. They keep it lively; you never know what they will do next.”
  • “They are very passionate about people and will stand by their true friends through thick and thin.”
  • “They are very loyal friends; others enjoy their company.”