Recognizing and Dealing With the Highly Expressive Person

by Bart Gragg

Remember that people are ‘blends’ of different behavioral styles.  Here we focus on general terms for the expressive person. (On the DISC Behavioral Assessment they are the “High I” – Robin Williams is a great example.

Behavior:  The more expressive a person is the more they are on the move.

Their body language is movement – they ‘talk with their hands’, their head is always moving, they love to talk about anything and everything.  They may include lots of detail, but even the detail will be superfluous.  They are good promoters, influencing people to do things with and for them.  They can’t sit still.  I have one IT client that you can’t beat for knowledge when my computer crashes, but as long as I have worked with him as both a client and vendors, he never quite seems to get all of the loose ends tied up.

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