The Online Octagon© - Help us with our Research
Your behavior dictates the extent to which people will want to engage with you: colleagues, clients, customers, suppliers.
The Octagon© is a simple but accurate self-assessment tool that measures your behavioral preferences.
It provides a reference point that helps you to think about your own behavior and how your preferences may impact how others respond towards you.
The more honest you are in answering the questions the more the result will represent how others see you.
Please answer quickly and instinctively.
A good starting point for a relationship, be it with a colleague, client or customer, is one that exhibits flexibility, while also indicating a willingness to trust, and to see and progress opportunities.
While there is no ideal Octagon profile, a good starting point for a relationship, be it with a colleague, client or customer, is a profile that exhibits flexibility, while also indicating a willingness to trust, and to see and progress opportunities.
Scores within the Relationship Reference Zone described below, represent a good starting point.
While there is no ideal Octagon profile, a good starting point for a relationship, be it with a colleague, client or customer, is a profile that exhibits flexibility, while also indicating a willingness to trust, and to see and progress opportunities.
Scores within the Relationship Reference Zone described below, represent a good starting point.
Continue to view how your profile scores compare with the Relationship Reference Zone.
The Octagon© provides a framework for understanding:
- Your own behavioral preferences
- How your preferences may affect others' perceptions about you
- The behavioral preferences of others
Equipped with this understanding, you may decide to match or mismatch your behavior to others' preferences.
While there is no certainty, our research suggests that matching behaviors tends to build rapport.
On the opposite side, mismatching behavior does not necessarily destroy rapport, though it can. More commonly, mismatching behavior may be used to deliberately jolt or challenge another person’s thinking – forcing them, for their own benefit, to view the world from an unfamiliar place. From that place may come insight.
The ability to flex behavior is important. Median scores (around the 90 mark) indicate flexibility. As scores tip towards the higher or lower end of the scale – less than 65 or more than 135 – it becomes more difficult to flex behavior in the other direction. Not impossible, just more difficult.
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Your behavior dictates the extent to which people will want to engage with you: colleagues, clients, customers, suppliers.
The Octagon© is a simple but accurate self-assessment tool that measures your behavioral preferences. It provides a reference point that helps you to think about your behavioral preferences and how those preferences may affect the way others respond towards you.
The Octagon is designed for personal development and should not be used as a performance evaluation tool.
For more about Octagon© and how to use it, visit www.ioweu.com
The Octagon© measures 8 behaviors, each with two extremes. There is no right or wrong behavior, though how you prefer to behave has consequences.
For more about The Octagon© and how to use it, visit www.ioweu.com
The Octagon© provides a framework for understanding:
Equipped with this understanding, you may decide to match or mismatch your behavior to others' preferences.
While there is no certainty, our research suggests that matching behaviors tends to build rapport.
On the opposite side, mismatching behavior does not necessarily destroy rapport, though it can. More commonly, mismatching behavior may be used to deliberately jolt or challenge another person’s thinking – forcing them, for their own benefit, to view the world from an unfamiliar place. From that place, may come insight.
While there may be no ideal profile, the ability to flex behavior is important. Median scores (around the 90 mark) indicate flexibility. As scores tip towards the higher or lower end of the scale - less than 65 or more than 135 - it becomes more difficult to flex behavior in the other direction. Not impossible, just more difficult.
A good starting point for a relationship, be it with a colleague, client or customer, is one that exhibits flexibility, while also indicating a willingness to trust, and to see and progress opportunities.
- Your own behavioral preferences
- How your preferences may affect others' perceptions about you
- The behavioral preferences of others
Equipped with this understanding, you may decide to match or mismatch your behavior to others' preferences.
While there is no certainty, our research suggests that matching behaviors tends to build rapport.
On the opposite side, mismatching behavior does not necessarily destroy rapport, though it can. More commonly, mismatching behavior may be used to deliberately jolt or challenge another person’s thinking – forcing them, for their own benefit, to view the world from an unfamiliar place. From that place, may come insight.
While there may be no ideal profile, the ability to flex behavior is important. Median scores (around the 90 mark) indicate flexibility. As scores tip towards the higher or lower end of the scale - less than 65 or more than 135 - it becomes more difficult to flex behavior in the other direction. Not impossible, just more difficult.
A good starting point for a relationship, be it with a colleague, client or customer, is one that exhibits flexibility, while also indicating a willingness to trust, and to see and progress opportunities.
For more about The Octagon© and how to use it, visit www.ioweu.com