Four Player Model

Kantor (David) was originally a family therapist.

During his work he began to realise that there are recurring patterns of language, behaviour and communication that lead to turbulence in families. He realised that the same patterns existed in businesses and organisations. 

Over the course of several years research working with other experts like Peter Senge, Kantor became a leading expert in group dynamics, developing the Structural Dynamics Model (often known as The Four Player Model), as a way of understanding, assessing and changing these patterns.

Structural dynamics specifically focuses on how human communication does, or does not work.  Kantor argues that being aware of the ‘structural dynamics’, or the unseen signals in a conversation is the first step towards being able to change the pattern of your own conversational behaviour, as well as the direction of the conversation itself.