There are four main social styles that determine how people interact: analytical, driver, expressive, and amiable. Successful leaders understand their own social style and how to adapt their behavior to build relationships with people of different styles. While everyone uses aspects of all four styles, most people have a dominant preferred style that comes from their natural orientation - whether they are task-oriented like analyticals, independent like drivers, energetic like expressives, or relationship-focused like amiables. The key to building relationships is learning to work with people across different social styles.