Element B: Coaching

Element B Coaching uses FIRO Theory to help you understand your behavior by breaking it down into three components:

Inclusion—amount of interaction—the area concerned with achieving the desired amount of contact with people

Control—structure of interaction—the area concerned with achieving the desired amount of control over others

Openness—depth of interaction—the area concerned with achieving just the desired amount of openness with others

Coaching helps you explore the similarities and differences you share with others, and how we tend to get in our way.

Moreover, Element B coaching shows how you see others through the lens of your own preferences. It helps you explore the degree to which your behavior is rigid or flexible in order to maximize your interpersonal effectiveness.

Training with Teams

Understanding how teams and relationships work is helpful in solving problems and improving output. A popular myth in organizations is that there is not time to deal with personal relationships. There are deadlines, bottom lines and goals to meet—and they take priority.

Ignoring personal problems in favor of “practical matters” is organizational self-deception. When interpersonal problems exist and are not dealt with, the productivity of the organization inevitably suffers. It is more true to say that organizations cannot afford not to take the time to deal with relations between people.

Element B training with teams helps members give non-defensive behavioral feedback. Teams can also evaluate how members relate to each other in the way their behavioral aspects (inclusion, control and openness) influence the team’s atmosphere, as well as how the their behaviors can affect the compatibility of their roles. The training provides the useful information for teams to find solutions to accurately measure their compatibility and increase productivity.

The Element B Certification course is held on-demand. Contact us for more information.