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Connecting · The Interpersonal Intelligence Workshop

Understand how you work with others

Read people accurately, flex on purpose and work better together.

Interpersonal intelligence

The Human Skills AI Can't Replace

As AI takes on the technical work, how well you read, adapt to and build trust with people becomes the real differentiator.

Interpersonal intelligence is the backbone of communication and influence at the leadership level. It can make the difference between success and failure in both alignment and gaining crucial executive sponsorship. Our workshop makes that skill teachable, and the Interpersonal Intelligence Profile makes it measurable.

IQ, EQ, EI and ii, the four forms of intelligence

The framework

Four Styles. Some Teams Have All of Them.

Every interaction is shaped by two observable habits: how much you push your own ideas into a room (Careful to Forceful), and how much emotion you let people see (Controlled to Emotive). Where the two meet is your primary style.

No style is better than another. The goal is versatility: the skill of adapting so the other person can hear you.

Careful + ControlledAnalyticalPrecise, careful, thorough. Wants the evidence before the answer.
Forceful + ControlledDriverDirect, decisive, results-first. Wants the bottom line, fast.
Careful + EmotiveAmiableWarm, steady, supportive. Wants trust and a plan everyone shares.
Forceful + EmotiveExpressiveEnergetic, big-picture, persuasive. Wants to be heard and inspired.

The Interpersonal Intelligence Profile

See Yourself as Others See You

A confidential, multi-rater assessment that shows your style, how people actually experience you, and where to flex. Measured, not guessed.

1Rate YourselfA short online questionnaire, about fifteen minutes, taken at your own pace on any device.
2Gather PerspectiveInvite three to five people who know your work. Their feedback is combined into one consensus view, and individual answers are never shown.
3Receive Your ProfileA clear, personalized report: your style, how others experience you, your versatility score and a practical action plan.
Your style, mappedWhere you fall on both dimensions, with your natural strengths and watch-outs.
Self vs. othersWhere your self-view and your raters' consensus agree, and where they don't.
Your versatility scoreHow well you currently adapt, and the behaviors that raise or lower it.
A practical action planSpecific, situational moves you can use tomorrow, on your own or with a coach.
100k+Profiles completed
40+Years in continuous use
5Continents served
3 to 5Confidential raters each

The workshop

Where the Profile Becomes a Skill

Everyone profiles first. Then the team comes together, for half a day to two days, in person or virtual, to practice through a guided series of exercises, not a lecture. Debriefs and coaching afterward turn insight into habits.

Participants remember the live style reads, the versatility drill and practicing their back-up styles under pressure. They leave with new options for gaining other people's endorsement and a shared language the team keeps using.

Classic studio microphone

What the workshop covers

1
The premises
What Interpersonal Intelligence is, and is not: how your behavior reliably shapes what others think and feel about you.
2
Discover your own style
Read your profile and own how you come across.
3
Read other people
The reliable signals in words, body language and tone that show how someone prefers to be approached.
4
Enhance productivity
Give each style what it needs, and stop giving people what quietly pushes them away.
5
Emotional intelligence
Put people at ease, sense mood and connect, especially when the stakes are high.
6
Increase versatility
Adjust your pace, structure, focus and warmth to meet the other person where they are.

Part of every program

Where Interpersonal Intelligence Makes the Difference

SellingAdapt to each executive's style and priorities, and earn the invitation to return.
LeadingMotivate and appeal to each person on your team in the way that works for them.
TeamingSee how different styles combine, find where friction comes from and build a shared language.
CoachingGive coaches, HR and L&D leaders a proven, behavior-based tool people use after the workshop ends.
Case study · A global pharmaceutical company

The COO greatly respected his principal plant manager, but he would not return her calls. He dreaded starting each conversation with small talk, and hours were lost. After the workshop, she opened their conversations with the task instead. He returned her calls right away, both of their needs were met and hours were saved.

"Our workshops with SGA significantly improved productivity and teamwork. We better understood and trusted each other."

The four style names originate in research begun in the 1950s by Dr. David W. Merrill (University of Denver), developed with Roger H. Reid and Gordon Brunson, and are used with acknowledgment. The survey, scoring and report are SGA's own, built on an instrument created by Dr. Walter F. Daves.

See How You Really Come Across

Request a workshop or a single Profile. We will be in touch within one business day.

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