The Practice Room · Personality colours
How to talk to different personality colours at work
Knowing someone’s colour is the easy part. Talking to them their way, when they push back, is the bit that takes practice.
Red
Tasha is waiting
Three conversations with a Red: someone you manage, a colleague at your level and your own manager.
Yellow
Jordan is waiting
Three conversations with a Yellow: the promise that never happens, the big idea that lands on you, and the new plan every week.
Green
Priya is waiting
Greens go quiet under pressure. Practise slowing down and making it safe to say no.
Blue
Martin is waiting
Three conversations with a Blue: the one you manage, the colleague at your level, and your own manager.
Practice for reflection, not legal or HR advice. If it involves harassment, discrimination, health or safety, talk to HR or ACAS.
Practise it their way
You’ve read that Reds want the point first and Greens need time. Then the conversation starts, they react, and you talk to them exactly the way you always do. Each room here has a character who behaves like one colour under pressure. They warm up when you adapt and dig in when you don’t, and the feedback tells you which you did.
Four colours. Four conversations. Talk their way.
How it works
- Pick the conversation. Each one is an everyday situation from shops, warehouses and shift work, with one person on the other side who has their own reasons.
- Talk it through. Type what you’d say. They answer the way people do: they deflect, go quiet, or open up when you get it right. Up to eight turns.
- Hear how it went. Our AI coach reads the whole conversation and tells you what worked, where it slipped, what to say instead and the one thing to practise. Then try it again.
What we keep: nothing you typed. Your conversation stays in your browser and goes to our AI coach only to write the next reply and your feedback. Use a made-up name for the person you’re thinking of.
Questions people ask
Do I need to know my own colour first?
No, but it helps. The free Colour Quiz takes a few minutes and shows your colour and how to work with the other three, so you know which room to start in.
Which room should I start with?
The colour you find hardest to talk to. If you’re not sure, think of the last conversation at work that went sideways and the person it was with.
Are people really just one colour?
No. The colours are a quick way to describe habits under pressure, not boxes. Most people lead with one or two. The rooms help because pressure is exactly when those habits show.
What does it cost?
Your first go at each conversation is free, feedback included, with no sign-up. Each go after that, including trying the same one again, uses one Ask BOM credit.
Credits are the same as Ask BOM credits: packs from 10 for £3 to 100 for £20, and one code works across every coach tool on the site. How credits work