With Process Communication Model you can learn the skills to observe, analyse and adjust behavior through effective interaction
What is Process Communication Model (PCM)?
PCM is an internationally acclaimed, highly reliable, behaviourally based communication model, used to individually tailor connection and motivation and build trust and rapport. PCM profiles reveal a host of insights about how a person perceives the world, how they communicate, how they are motivated and how they will behave in distress. As a valid, reliable and actionable model, PCM answers the “So what? Now what?” questions about how to communicate with different types of people.
PCM conceptualizes personality as being composed of six types, all of which exist within each of us and are arranged like the floors of a condominium (in the USA a name for an apartment building), with our core or “base” type at the bottom, moving up through each floor to the least-accessed trait at the top, or attic. Each floor has unique attributes, including a perceptual frame of reference, character strengths, communication and environmental preferences, motivational needs and highly predictable distress behaviours.
That happens because each of the six types:
- ==> Communicates differently
- ==> Learns differently
- ==> Is motivated differently
- ==> Has a different set of behaviours when in distress
Based on award-winning scientific research developed by Dr. Taibi Kahler, Process Communication has been successfully implemented by almost 1.5 million people on five continents and can be applied in a range of contexts including sales, business, education, medicine, recruitment, politics, religion, parenting, and personal relationships.
See more information about PCM and the different personality types HERE:
The Personality Inventory
If you want to use the the Process Communication Model®, you will first need to complete a questionnaire. The result will enable you to discover your personality structure. PCM uses the teaching metaphor of a six-floor condominium to enable us to visualise the composition of each individual’s personality structure. Each of the six personality types is located on a single floor with the size of the bar within the floor indicating the level of energy available when the person wants to use the corresponding personality type. The metaphor of an “elevator” illustrates the person’s ability to reach all of the floors and use all of their resources.
The Base
The ground floor, called the Base, indicates the dominant, most highly developed personality type. Being able to identify another’s Base helps us to use the most effective communication channel and perception to connect with that person.
The Phase
The concept of Phase helps us to understand what is motivating us. If we satisfy the psychological needs of the Phase Personality, we will positively impact our motivation on a day-to-day basis. This will also represent a guide on how to motivate others. Even better, it helps us to recognize when we or our communication partner enter a distress sequence and gives us the tools to tackle this situation.
This is useful for whatever context in our lives: personal relationships, sales and negotiations, education, project management, HR or simple social interactions.
Once one starts to understand PCM, it will become a (quite exciting) habit to identify the most energized “floors” (meaning, personality types) in someone’s personality. Doing this helps strengthen one’s understanding of PCM and the six personality types, making it easier afterwards in our day to day life to know how to better approach our conversation partners (or our team members, direct reports, line managers, life partners, children, etc.), to “speak their language”, so that we avoid miscommunication and distress and we get more things done smoothly and efficiently, while building high quality and trust-based relationships.
