Navigating the Resources
1. Read the information below about the trait to develop a greater understanding of your strength/opportunity.
2. Consider the Stop, Start, Continue examples to create your own actionable change behaviors.
3. Explore the trait more fully by taking advantage of the weblinks below.
Sociability
Sociability measures the extent to which you interact and connect with others. Striking the right balance between engaging others and being overly social will help enable success. The resources below will allow you to further understand and develop appropriate sociability in the workplace.
Strength
Higher levels of sociability indicate that you may be highly outgoing and enjoy interacting with others.
Opportunity
Lower levels of sociability may indicate that you are reserved or tend to limit your interactions with others.
Excess
Excessive levels of sociability indicate that you may socialize too much and have trouble focusing on tasks.
Identify an opportunity area that you would like to change. Then, develop behaviors that you can Stop (unhelpful or limiting behaviors), Start (behaviors that you can begin now), and Continue (behaviors that you already do well) to improve in this area. Use the examples below to help create your own Stop, Start, and Continue behaviors.
- Limiting interactions with others.
- Allowing tasks to interfere with communicating with others.
- Hesitating to build relationships with others.
- Being the first one to reach out and communicate.
- Providing timely updates to encourage open channels of communication.
- Building rapport by being more willing to initiate interactions.
- Updating your linkedin account with relevant information.
- Cooperating with others during team interactions.
- Having an overall positive attitude.
