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When you speak to communicate a message, you unconsciously shift between four different “frequencies.” In everyday language, we call them body language, head language, heart language, and gut language. Each one adds its own tone to your message, and together they strengthen what you want to say.

The purpose of “separating” and analyzing your message into these color-frequencies is to make the unconscious conscious—so you can present your message in the best possible way. Spend the next three minutes reading Lesson 1.1. Then test yourself by placing each of the four labels on its colour.

SGL uses a color language with four colors—Blue, Red, Yellow, and Purple—along with an “alphabet” of 15 symbols/icons to illustrate its messages. In every illustration, the colors communicate the same underlying meanings, while the symbols are specific to each theme. Together, they create a three-dimensional message of content, color, and form—easy to remember and easy to communicate within any team or organization using SGL.

We learned about colors and message separation in Start-Up 1. Now we will look at the first five symbols/icons used to illustrate the messages in Secret 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Each symbol represents a blue, fact-oriented theme, while the colors express the dominant “language colors” in the processes.

Your decision-making profile matters. Decision competence means knowing your strengths and weaknesses in critical situations. Your profile in unfamiliar situations can be:

• observed and described (see the Belbin-inspired material on leadership styles),
• identified through extensive questionnaires, or
• understood through the SGL method, which shows that your decision-making profile does not depend on knowledge or experience, but on your temperament – using just two simple but powerful questions.