TOM CRANE'S BEHAVIORAL STYLES

Tom Crane's Behavioral styles

Tom Crane's Four Behavioral Styles  from: The Heart of Coaching. 2010. FTA Press. San Diego.

I.  Collaborating
      Strengths                                   Weaknesses

   Team player                              Non-confronted
   Sensitive                                   Overly compliant
   Flexible                                     Overly emotional
   Patient                                       Can't say no

II.  Creating
   Enthusiastic                               Poor follow-through
   Creative                                     Impulsive
   Spontaneous                              Misses details
   Dynamic                                    Poor planner

III. Clarifying
   Systematic                                 Data bound
   Objective                                   Risk averse
   Thorough                                  Tedious
   Accurate                                    Perfectionist

IV. Conducting
   Independent                               Autocratic
   Initiator                                      Insensitive
   Disciplined                                 Impatient
   Organized                                  Poor listener

Key points:
"Style is a preference and a choice.  It is not what people are.  Each of us have some of the skills and abilities from all styles."

"No one style is better.  It is the situation and the person with whom you are interacting that determines the approach that may work best."

"Weaknesses are merely over-developed strengths."

"Each style has its own language, beliefs, and skills.  Each style is effective."

Do not take the behavioral styles as a framework to "evaluate and separate people into categories. "
"Use it to connect and value them."