Saturday and Sunday Assemblies, led by special guest presenter Phillip Tanzilo, CPTD, MHRM!

Our communication and relationships with others is often directly influenced by our communication style.  Our messages are often filtered by the style of the message recipient.  Communicating the way I would want to receive a message may in fact trigger a negative reaction.  The listener may react by simply tuning out the message.    

Some may be very direct and assertive, others may jump from topic to topic, while someone else may not tell you how they feel, and there are those that want to step back and analyze in order to get it right.  Sound familiar?  

This program will help...

• Explain the origins of these styles.
• Articulate the value of having people with style differences around us.
• Outline style differences and similarities.
• Recognize behaviors associated with each style.
• Adapt communication to work better with people of different styles.

Awareness of this dynamic can allow us to be in control of the conversation.  Taking the time to understand the other party can allow me to consciously shift and strategize my communication so the other person can hear the message.  This social awareness begins first with understanding oneself first.  Then I can understand how to shift.  

We now have a choice of taking this into account before communicating and achieve consistently more powerful results in our relationships and other interactions.  

Our guest presenter, Phillip Tanzilo (tan-ZILL-oh), CPTD, MHRM, works with individuals and organizations to improve communication in this way.  He has partnered with organizations that include the US Forestry Service, Redfin, Uber, Navy Seals, Pfizer, San Francisco Fire Department, Space Force, NASA, and National Academy of Sciences. He will introduce a communication style assessment, Communication Jungle^®, (which we’ll all complete) that shows us which of the five “animal types” we tend to rely upon most, especially under stress.  (Get where we got the MANimal theme from now?)

There is no "wrong" style combination.  This program is about raising awareness by opening a blind spot that can shift relationships from elevating personal and social awareness.  

Phillip will guide us through fun and highly interactive exercises to support an understanding of how to identify the styles of others and strategize our approach.  Specifically, we will prioritize to identify the style which may tend to trigger us most and understand why.  This awareness gives us power to listen better ourselves, accept our differences, and empathize at a deeper level.   We will discover together what’s great about our style, acknowledge the pitfalls, and recognize why one is not better than another!  

Join us as we learn how to adapt to communicating with the others in our “zoo.” 

Our exploration with Phillip should prove fun and enlightening, leave us thinking in the months that follow, and make a difference in our relationships.  Learn more about Phillip’s systems (for your own growth or to bring him into other organizations) at PhillipTanzilo.com .