Start Here with the FIRO-B
The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation™ (FIRO®) assessments help people understand their interpersonal needs and how those needs influence their communication style and behavior. These accessible and universally applicable personality assessments have helped individuals, teams, and organizations around the world grow and succeed. In a recent survey, more than 90 percent of FIRO‑B® customers improved teamwork within their organization.
The FIRO assessments can be used to repair broken relationships and improve already good, functional relationships, unlocking potential in all interpersonal interactions. Based on social need theory, they facilitate behavioral change by providing insight into people’s working relationships and requirements. FIRO results provide critical data on how people tend to behave toward others and how they want others to behave toward them. This information can be used, for example, to help people improve their interpersonal communication skills and address issues and potential misunderstandings with parishioners, co-workers, family and friends.
FIRO-B Workshop for Leaders and Teams
The FIRO workshop helps you to interpret the results of the assessment and grow in multiple areas:
- Relationship enhancement—By uncovering areas in which individuals may not meet the interpersonal needs of friends, family, parishioners, reports, or coworkers the FIRO assessments promote behavior changes that can help people build better relationships and performance.
- Team building—FIRO insights accelerate team building and enable team members to recognize and overcome potential barriers that could prevent them from working together effectively.
- Leader development—The FIRO assessments help leaders unlock performance improvement by better meeting the needs of peers, parishioners, direct reports and others.
- Conflict management—FIRO results empower people to recognize when the way they express themselves is likely to conflict with the needs of others, thereby enabling them to avoid, assess, and resolve interpersonal challenges.
- Emotional intelligence development—The FIRO model builds success on the fundamental awareness that different people have different needs.
FIRO-B Assessment for Couples
Based on the research of Will Schutz, PhD, the FIRO-B® instrument was created to assess interpersonal needs. Beyond our basic physical needs—for food and safety, for example—we each have interpersonal needs—for Inclusion, Control, and Affection—that strongly motivate us. Unlike personality type preferences, which, many believe, are hardwired at birth, interpersonal needs are developed throughout our lifetime, based on our experiences, culture, values, and so on. As Schutz explains, everyone has the desire to express Inclusion, Control, and Affection, as well as to receive these from others.
Knowing about our own interpersonal needs as well as those whom we are in relationships with gives us a better sense of why we seek out or avoid certain situations, as well as why we seek to be “satisfied” or to have those needs met.
Thomas Kilmann Instrument (TKI)
The TKI measures your tendencies in dealing with interpersonal conflict. It describes 5 different conflict-handling modes and helps you identify which mode you use most often. As you become aware of choices that you and those around you are making in conflict situations, you become better able to steer conflict situations into constructive directions.
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