Component Combinations / People Relations

Component Combinations

The Birkman Components offer insight into a person’s behavior and motivations. Individually, the Components are very descriptive of individuals’ Usual and Stress behavior, as well as their Needs. However, people do not exhibit just one behavior at a time. The eleven Components combined make up the total person. Therefore, when learning about an individual, it is important to look at Component combinations, not just isolated Components.

Birkman has created a group format called the Components Chart. This format allows you to plot a group/team on various Component Combinations. In addition to being able to see where the individuals in a group are plotted, there are also descriptors for each quadrant (i.e. High/High, Low/High, High/Low, and Low/Low). You can access this format by going to the Group or Single Format section of BirkmanDirect®. This format features six critical Component Combinations:

1. Esteem&Acceptance–PeopleRelations
2. Authority&Acceptance–Communication&Interaction
3. Authority&Esteem–DefensiveStrategies
4. Authority&Advantage–NeedtoWin
5. Authority&Freedom–ConflictManagement
6. Empathy&Activity–Competitionwithouttheneedtowin

The next few Birkman Beginnings will discuss these combinations in more depth and include the text from the Components Chart for each combination.

As you know, Esteem describes one on one interaction and Acceptance deals with group interactions. Therefore, the combination of the two describes “People Relations.”