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Written by: Lynda-Ross Vega

Coaching and Psychological Styles: Adjust Your Approach! - Click To Read Article
Most coaches understand, intuitively, the need to adjust their approach in dealing with different types of clients, but quite often, these adjustments don’t come until it’s too late, and the client has already lost faith in the process. Using an assessment to determine a client’s Perceptual Style at the outset of the coaching relationship can shift the equation, giving the coach the tools he/she needs to connect with the client and speak that client’s language right away.

Life, Business and the Pursuit of Happiness: Do More of What You Do Best! - Click To Read Article
Why do some people thrive in the work they do while others seem so miserable? The answer to this all-important question has everything to do with who we are as people, and what makes us different from each other. By focusing on areas of natural talent, skill and passion-not just for what our businesses do, but what we do in our businesses-we can strengthen the bottom line and experience more happiness on a day-to-day basis.

Take Off the Blinders! Coaching Based on Perceptual Style - Click To Read Article
Coaches know better than anyone that different people really do see the world differently. But not many of them realize that those differences in perception are, in fact, innate – and that understanding these deep-seated differences is the key to creating a real impact in clients’ lives.

Business and Relationships: Change Your Words, Change Your World - Click To Read Article
Almost everyone has had the experience of saying one thing and having someone else interpret something completely different – to the detriment of a project or relationship. In this article, I discuss the ways that people with different Perceptual Styles use language differently.

Getting to the Middle of it: Building a Business From its Core - Click To Read Article
Building the core of a business is essential, but not always easy to do. Helping an entrepreneur to understand her role as the core of her company is important, and here, we explain the reasons why building a business around the core – yourself – is so crucial. In fact, that strong core leads to empowering all other aspects of business!

Psychology and Leadership: Vision and Adjustments - Click To Read Article
According to the Perceptual Styles Theory, there are six different psychological styles that play a major role in who we are and how we see the world. While most traditional notions of leadership encompass only a few of those styles, each possesses a unique set of leadership qualities. Here, we examine the leadership qualities associated with the Vision and Adjustments styles.

Psychology and Leadership: Activity and Methods - Click To Read Article
According to the Perceptual Styles Theory, there are six different psychological styles that have everything to do with who we are and the way we see the world. While traditional notions of leadership encompass only a few of those styles, the truth is that each of them possesses a unique set of leadership qualities. Here, we examine the leadership qualities associated with the Activity and Methods Perceptual Styles.

Psychology and Leadership: What Does Your Style Say about You? - Click To Read Article
According to the Perceptual Styles Theory, there are six different psychological styles that have everything to do with who we are and the way we see the world. Traditional notions of leadership only encompass two of these- but every psychological style has a unique approach to leadership. Here, we’ll examine the first two attributes of effective leaders, across the board.

How to Appeal to People with a Different Spotlight Style - Click To Read Article
Everyone has their own Spotlight Style – the way they draw attention to their gifts and talents, their services and products, and their unique flair. Embracing your Spotlight Style is the key to applying your authentic voice in all of your marketing activities – and the good news is, it is possible to attract people with similar and different Spotlight Styles.

Can You Only Market to People Like Yourself? - Click To Read Article
Have you discovered and claimed your Spotlight Style? As a business owner, when you become more and more comfortable with the natural marketing tools associated with your Style, both current and prospective clients will experience and respond to the inner confidence your offerings and marketing efforts reflect.

Relationships and Marriage: Finding Your True Love A Perceptual Styles Perspective - Click To Read Article
There are six distinct Perceptual Styles that determine the ways that different people see the world, what they value, and how they communicate. This article addresses the question: How does the Perceptual Styles Theory apply to romantic partnerships?

Personal Growth: How Are Your Resolutions Holding Up? - Click To Read Article
Why do so many New Year’s Resolutions fail? Because they fail to take into account who you are and how you actually operate. This article explores some of the differences between the six inherent Perceptual Styles and how understanding your style can help you create resolutions that stick.

Business and Creativity: It’s Not Just for Artists! - Click To Read Article
Most people think of creativity as the realm of artists, musicians and other creative professionals. But everyone has a unique type of creativity, based on their unique Perceptual Style. Understanding your own creative style is one of the keys to capitalizing on what you do best, and putting it to work in your business.

Help! I think I Picked the Wrong Coach: 3 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Tell If It’s a Bad Fit - Click To Read Article
Coaching and mentoring is often an essential step to business success on the internet. But entrepreneurs often pick a coach or mentor very different from themselves-and, as a consequence, fail to achieve similar success.

3 Reasons Change Fails: Tea Party Politics for Business - Click To Read Article
The Tea Party movement has rallied around a sweeping call for change in Washington. But more often than not, dramatic changes fail to transform large organizations. Why? Because different people see the world differently-and fail to take into account these three crucial factors.

Communication and Business: Are You Sending Mixed Signals? - Click To Read Article
Offering resources is how we build community and make friends, while offering transactions is how we make money. If you’re offering one in the guise of the other, watch out: your mixed signals could be hurting your business in a big way.

Perceptual Style Expert Provides Strategies for Conversations that Work - Click To Read Article
Simple differences in perspective can create chronic conflicts between two people – and drive them apart. Arguments or disagreements that start out small can fester and create serious resentment on both sides. This article highlights strategies for adjusting conversations so they provide the necessary information for both people involved – and therefore, they stop conflict before it starts.

The 6 Perceptual Styles, What We Value and How We See the World: The Methods Style - Click To Read Article
In the fifth of a series of articles detailing the 6 innate Perceptual Styles of the Perceptual Style Theory, the authors detail the style known as Methods: a person who sees the world in a rational, matter-of-fact manner, who excels at breaking complex tasks down into a simple, ordered sequence that inevitably achieves his/her goals.

The 6 Perceptual Styles, What We Value and How We See the World: The Adjustment Style - Click To Read Article
In the second of a series of articles detailing the 6 innate Perceptual Styles of the Perceptual Style Theory, the authors detail the style known as Adjustments: a keen and thoughtful observer of the world for whom life offers a complexity that can only be known by gathering knowledge and the understanding that comes with it.

Why Don't "They" See Things the Way I Do? How Perceptual Style Theory Helps Us Understand Social Differences - Click To Read Article
What accounts for the extreme differences in the way that different people view the same things? According to Lynda-Ross Vega and Gary Jordan, PhD., it’s the 6 different Perceptual Styles innate to different human beings that determine the ways we see the world and what our values are.

The 6 Perceptual Styles, What We Value and How We See the World: The Activity Style - Click To Read Article
In the first of a series of articles detailing the 6 innate Perceptual Styles of the Vega Role Facilities Theory, the authors detail the style known as Activity: an active, inquisitive person for whom life is a constantly shifting panorama of opportunities and connections.

Searching For Success? Discover Your Talent Advantage First - Click To Read Article
Success and satisfaction in life or work is most often due to conscious development and use of our natural strengths. The more you consciously use your natural skills, the more they become true talents – Your Talent Advantage – and the more enjoyment and success you have in all aspects of your life.

How Perceptual Style Determines Our Natural Skills and Abilities - Click To Read Article
Perceptual Style is innate; this means it determines what natural capacities, skills, and abilities we have. Your Perceptual Style supports a broad range of skills and abilities for which you have natural inborn potential. When something comes naturally to you, it means it is supported by your Perceptual Style and you were born with the potential to excel at it.

Behavioral Science and the 6 Universal Categories of Perceptual Style - Click To Read Article
Creating categories and labels are useful to discuss our common experiences and are especially helpful in describing our understanding of human behavior. In Perceptual Style Theory there are high-level commonalities in perception that can be grouped together into six Perceptual Styles. These Perceptual Styles each describe a different perceptual experience of the world and the many characteristic behaviors that are a result of that perception and are a wonderful tool for understanding ourselves and others.

I’m Right, You’re Wrong: Behavioral Science Explains Away This Universal Belief - Click To Read Article
Each person is limited by their perception to access only a portion of reality, and they build their beliefs, values, and conclusions about the world based on the portion of reality they perceive. From this perspective people who perceive the world differently from you are not wrong, they are just seeing a different slice of reality than you are.

A Coaching Dilemma: How to Discover What Your Coaching Client Really Needs - Click To Read Article
In our society, the majority of energy is focused on maintaining a functional level with skills we have acquired in order to become “well-rounded citizens.” Acquiring, developing, and maintaining these skills comes with a high price of both energy and time. As coaches, we have the responsibility to help clients discover what they do naturally well and give them the choice to let go of old approaches to life’s challenges.

You Can Learn Any Skill With Training But You Can’t Learn To Love It! - Click To Read Article
Most of us have to acquire skills that are not innate and with enough training we learn to do them just fine. But no amount of facility and training can help us learn to love them. You can build your life around acquired skills, but nothing can take the place of natural skills that allow for creativity and inventiveness.

Helping Young People Find their Path: Strength Based Coaching and the U.S. Public School System - Click To Read Article
It amazes me how many children graduate from high school and even college with little idea of what they want to do with their lives and often even less of an idea about what their natural skills are. One of the reasons is that most schools fail to recognize multiple types of intelligence and teach to only two. I am convinced that much of the confusion about life and career direction that I encounter occurs when people who don’t fit the standard mold do not get recognition for their natural skills.

A Better Approach to Career Coaching: Putting Your Natural Skills to Work - Click To Read Article
Historically career inventories have measured the extent to which your interests are similar to the interests of people in a particular career or profession. The problem is that while you may have similar interests as those in the construction industry, you may have little or no desire to do what someone in the construction industry does. ACI for Coaches approaches the issue of career selection differently by using strength-based coaching.

Preferences for Interaction - Click To Read Article
We’re constantly interacting with other people. Not matter what the activity, work or play. It’s a part of life, and how well we interact often determines our success.

How to Never Sell Again - No Matter What Business You’re In - Click To Read Article
If you’re like most people, the idea of selling fills you with fear and dread. Maybe it’s the fear of rejection or the cheesy sales pitch. Regardless, it’s not an activity many of us look forward to. Yet in reality, you sell to people every day. If you didn’t, it would be very hard to survive in this world.

How to Follow a Path with Heart For Greater Life Success - Click To Read Article
People often hold the belief that if they get the right job, find the right mate, or earn enough money, they’ll be happy and satisfied. But success is really an “internal job.” Those other factors are just symptoms of life success.

Life Success in 3 Steps - Click To Read Article
Distinguishing between those skills that fit you naturally versus those you had to work hard to develop is the key to a life of success. Having a clear plan for the specific behaviors and skills you want to develop is important.

Dealing With Different Personality Types: What M&Ms Teach You About Life - Click To Read Article
At any given moment, our brains are being exposed to millions of bits of sensory information. What makes this interesting is that each of us filters out different sensors, so we each are experiencing a different “reality,” often without realizing that this reality is unique to us.

Career Planning: How to Discover Your Dream Job - Click To Read Article
An effective job search begins by figuring out the specific criteria and values you want the job to fulfill. It may sound obvious, but before you can find the job you really want, you have to know what you're seeking.

Secrets For Making the Law of Attraction Work For You - Click To Read Article
There's been a recent explosion of awareness regarding "The Law of Attraction." The Law of Attraction takes the concept that like attracts like and applies it to conscious desire. In other words, your thoughts determine your experience. If you are already familiar with The Law of Attraction you may have already begun to apply it to your life.

Navigating the World of Differing Opinions For Real-World Success - Click To Read Article
What you perceive is what you experience as real. Differing perceptions are at the bottom of so many unending arguments about who is right and who is wrong, serving no purpose other than to create conflict and push people apart. Real success in life comes from the ability to understand differing perceptions.

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