Kantor Baseline Instrument Profile

Your dominant propensity within the Action Modes reflects your most common contribution to a group conversation. In every interaction, there are only four basic vocal acts:

The Move, The Follow, The Oppose, The Bystander

While these actions happen repeatedly throughout dialogue, individuals commonly make one or two of these vocal acts significantly more frequently than the others. Your propensity reflects the action to which you gravitate.

Your dominant propensity within the Operating Systems is the set of basic rules that you implicitly follow when interacting with others. Different people prefer different rules and there are three distinct Operating Systems that have been identified, reflecting different system archetypes:

Closed, Open, Random

Your Operating Propensity reflects the set of rules that you will follow when you are free to act as you prefer.

Individuals tend to focus on certain kinds of issues and topics more frequently than others. The dominant propensity within the Communication Domains represents what you pay attention to when you are interacting with others:

Affect, Meaning, Power

Because of your interest in these topics, the language that you use most frequently is reflective of your Communication Propensity. With Kantor Structural Dynamics Licensed Practitioners, individuals, teams, and organisations can utilise detailed reports to discover their Baseline Profile and develop conversational depth range and fluency.

The Kantor Baseline Behavioural Profile is distinct from other instruments in a number of ways.

The model gives a participant:

• A descriptive language for their own and other’s behavioural patterns.
• A genuinely neutral model, with no profile better or worse than another.
• The ability to build self-awareness (internal) and capability to ‘read the room’ (external).
• The ability to more easily identify situations in which their profile serves self and others and where it falls short.
• The knowledge and skills to operate more consciously, expand their behavioural repertoire and make significant improvements in their own interpersonal efficacy.
• The ability to see new possibilities for where and how to make behavioural changes that will improve relationships and outcomes.

The Kantor Team Profile helps teams to identify patterns of dialogue within a team or group, and to explore new and more effective ways to relate to each other.

The model gives a team or group:

• An understanding of the impact of the organisational system on team dynamics and encourages the adoption of a more whole-of-system perspective in the way they work.
• The ability to engage in conversations with each other in new ways, no longer placing blame for unsuccessful outcomes on one another, but understanding how a set of profiles can come together to produce both desirable and undesirable outcomes.
• A way to build Psychological Safety so that conversations which need to take place can do so constructively ‘in the room’, rather than being held back or taking place ‘in the corridor’.
• A way to help teams who do not yet know how, to productively surface and work through difference, which of course is key to unlocking collective intelligence.
• The ability to recognise the different communication styles and preferences within the team, thus enabling its members to navigate through unhelpful/stuck patterns and create an environment that encourages collaboration, open dialogue, constructive feedback, and innovation.