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Edith Cowan University
Social Styles
Michelle Adamos
Centre for Learning and Development

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Edith Cowan University
What are Social Styles?
Merrill and Reid define social style as "patterns of
behaviour that others can observe."
Individual social or behavioural styles affect the
way in which we interact with one another
Merrill DW, Reid RH. Personal Styles and Effective Performance. Boca Raton, Fla: CRC Press;
1999:2

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Edith Cowan University
Social Style Categories
- Analytical
- Driver
- Amiable
- Expressives

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Edith Cowan University
Social Styles Survey
Its time to find out what your
preferred social style!

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Edith Cowan University
Analytical
Do it right or not at all!
PICTURE – toilet paper
PROFESSIONS – accountant, engineer

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Driver
Just do it!
PICTURE – 3month old child wanting control
PROFESSIONS – CEOS, politicians

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Amiable
We’re great!
PICTURE – Child who never makes waves, hates
fighting, cries when growled at
PROFESSIONS – HR, Nursing, Caring

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Expressives
Lets all do it!
PICTURE – Every party needs some, the bubbly
girls telling stories and making everyone laugh
PROFESSIONS – Entrepreneurs, Marketing, PR

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Debrief
Any surprises?
Its important to know: this is only
your preferred social style. No-one
has a complete style

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Group work
Divide into your style group and complete
these sentences:
– We are most happy when ….
– We are motivated by ….
– We feel stressed when …
– We handle conflict by…

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Time to share
Nominate 1 person to share your
responses to the group

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What have we learnt?
How can this relate to our sessional
teaching?
What style do you think is most
popular in your class?

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The Challenge
Adapting your teaching to cater for all
the different social style- how can
this be done?

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Edith Cowan University
Phew! Its over!
Its time to move on- Tech Taster
here we come!
Thank you