FIRO-B

Interpersonal Relationship Styles

The FIRO® instrument is a personality questionnaire focusing on how individuals behave towards others, and how they expect others to behave towards them. Using a simple model of interpersonal relationship styles, the FIRO tool can reveal hidden mismatches between wanted and expressed behaviour, offering profound insights that touch at the heart of an individual’s sense of who they are.

Key features

This tool looks at three interpersonal ’need areas’, identifying sources of tension within an individual’s profile. Ambiguities in these areas can be the reason behind complex and difficult relationship issues, so when other tools have not been effective, the FIRO instrument is often the answer.

Benefits

The new awareness gained from using the FIRO tool both increases the chances of a person’s needs being met and helps them manage their impact on others. It can also help them understand what type of workplace they thrive in - a powerful way of keeping people engaged and satisfied.

The FIRO tool is well suited to both one-to-one and team settings, including the following:

• Team development
• Leadership development
• Communication
• Conflict management
• Coaching
• Improving working relationships
• Stress management

The FIRO instrument is a very useful tool for teams. It can dramatically increase the self-awareness of team member’s by highlighting differences between self-perceptions and external impressions, creating a better understanding of misperceptions and individual needs across a team. It helps to develop an understanding of the team culture and its interpersonal dynamics, and can also explain how and why conflicts within teams develop.

FIRO-B for Senior Team development

The FIRO questionnaire can be a helpful tool to use with senior teams for the following reasons:

• Raising individual awareness of their interpersonal behaviour.
• Raising awareness of their leadership style. The FIRO instrument will help them to
• understand where their own comfort lies and also what impression this might
• make on others.
• Offering a helpful framework in understanding alternative approaches and styles
• that may be beneficial, depending on the unique make-up of their teams and
• on their organisational culture.

FIRO-B for Conflict Management

The FIRO instrument is helpful in looking at potential conflict areas for individuals by analysing the expressed and wanted behaviours of each person. If there is a mismatch between the degree of behaviour either received from, or given to, another individual, conflict may be provoked. The FIRO tool offers one way of raising awareness around such ’mismatches’ and provides individuals with a framework for working through their conflict. This applies to pairs of individuals working together as well as teams.

Reports Available

FIRO-B Profile Report - An essential profile of your FIRO-B score.
FIRO-B Interpretive Report for Organisations - Provides insightful information about FIRO-B results applied to a business setting.
FIRO-B Business Report - Provides a basic profile of your business results.
FIRO-B Business Leadership Report - Provides insight into communication styles that affect leadership performance.

More information

If you are interested in learning more about FIRO-B please contact PeopleCulture on 01962 772 005 or at mail@peopleculture.co.uk.

Alternatively, to find out more about FIRO-B please visit www.opp.com.