This is where Share & Compare becomes a practical support tool. By helping two people easily identify and understand their similarities and differences, they can discuss the impact and perception of their communication style and how they can adapt to each other’s preferences.

Practical exercise:

In a coaching or development session, guide people to scan each other’s Splash from their Lumina Spark Portrait on their Lumina Splash app. Using the Share and Compare feature, overlay their behavioral styles. As they explore their similarities and differences together, ask them to consider these questions in their conversation:

• One way you can communicate easily with each other

• One way you might find it difficult to communicate with each other

• One action you can take to communicate more effectively with each other

This helps break down silent assumptions about each other’s styles and provides shared clarity for teammates to adapt their approach to communication effectively when working together.

2. Giving and Receiving Feedback

Feedback is essential for performance and growth, yet it can also be one of the most uncomfortable parts of working together. What often makes feedback challenging is not the message itself but how it is communicated, especially when people’s behavioral preferences and overextensions come into play.

Some people prefer a direct approach, while others benefit from asking questions. Some respond well to in-the-moment feedback, while others need time to process. And when someone is stressed or feeling under pressure, they may overextend their usual strengths. For example, someone who is usually logical in their approach can become argumentative, someone who is often reliable can become hesitant. These shifts can unintentionally affect both how feedback is delivered and received, shaping the emotional tone of the conversation more than the content itself.

Share and Compare provides teams and leaders with a shared map to explore how their behavior may change during difficult conversations, discuss what each person needs to feel heard and motivated, and understand how they can adapt their communication style to support effective feedback.

Practical exercise:

In a coaching or development session, guide people to scan each other’s Splash from their Lumina Spark Portrait on their Lumina Splash app. Using the Share and Compare feature, overlay their behavioral styles. Prompt them to explore these questions:

• How would you adapt your communication style when giving feedback to your partner?

• How might your partner’s communication style influence how they give feedback to you?

• What overextensions might show up for each of you during feedback conversations, and what support would help?

• How might this impact your response?

With a shared language to understand the behavioral drivers behind feedback, people can adapt their approach to each other’s preferences and manage their overextensions, making feedback conversations clearer and easier to act on.

3. Valuing Different Ways of Being

Organizations are made up of people with different strengths, motivations, and natural ways of working. These behavioral differences often make teams highly effective, especially when they understand and embrace the paradox of opposite strengths that balance one another.

When people recognize and value each other’s opposite strengths, they begin to learn from each other in meaningful ways. A teammate who brings structure can model how to plan and prioritize effectively. Someone who is imaginative can help others see new possibilities. These everyday behaviors become opportunities for role modeling and continuous learning. But when these differences aren’t explored, they can easily be misinterpreted as conflict or resistance.

Share & Compare helps teams and leaders playfully explore their different ways of being together by seeing how their behavior may complement each other and where they may clash when working together.

Practical exercise:

In a coaching or development session, guide people to scan each other’s Splash from their Lumina Spark Portrait on their Lumina Splash app. Using the Share and Compare feature, overlay their behavioral styles.

Ask them to discuss these questions:

• One thing you admire about their behavioral style

• One way in which their style might make it harder for you to work with them

• One behavior they can tune up or down when working with you

This helps people appreciate each other’s different styles while openly addressing potential challenges in a non-judgmental way, creating shared clarity on the steps to work better together.

Bring learning back into the workplace

Once teams and leaders have explored their behavior together in sessions, their Splashes are saved in their Splash Gallery on the Lumina Splash app. Whether before a meeting, preparing for a conversation, or while working through a collaborative challenge, people can revisit their behavioral similarities and differences whenever they want. This brings behavioral insights from sessions back into people’s day-to-day roles with a go-to space for ongoing reflection and a continued appreciation of each other’s styles.

Experience Share and Compare with your own Taster Splash

Give your people, teams, and leaders a highly engaging, interactive way to explore and understand the impact and perception of their behavior together.

Download the Lumina Splash app from the Google Play Store or App Store and explore the Share and Compare feature with your own Taster Splash.