Role playing skills and role preference ​

There are a few more objects that simplify the conversation about communication and at the same time relate to the plane of leadership, persuasive speech (rhetoric), and joint implementation of practices.

Here are these objects and a few key statements about them (relationships that are important).

Agents play roles in several systems at any given moment, so their role preferences overlap.

Typically, it is advantageous for a role to be played by one person, as there is not enough attention to play multiple roles well, and a significant part of another agent's roles are not relevant to the systems of interest.

This is why leadership questions arise - putting the agent in a role, and, importantly, removing all irrelevant roles from their attention.

Sometimes it is sufficient to say, like to a neural network, act as if you are XX to put an agent in a role. Or even ask, "How are you acting right now?" so that the agent reflects, and this increase in awareness is enough to rearrange the role structure.

But more often than not.

Why is it difficult to assign an agent a role and maintain role positions oneself?

There are three main layers of roles that have different "explicitness", different coverage in the literature, and different retention times:

• Activity roles, which we track, and which are culturally conditioned, can last from days to years, and the practices are relatively easily identified. You can count on your fingers the roles you have. Most likely several engineering and managerial roles - developing something and organizing something.
• But there are also situationally assumed roles in communication that can completely overshadow the main activity roles in some situations. Since the lifetime of each individual communication ranges from minutes to hours, and the agent has some other "primary" role, it is not considered important to refer to a specific communicative practice or even to name the role in communication. At the same time, the role is taken on from time to time and is quite often culturally conditioned, with various conceptualizations in this area (putting aside their quality). For example, someone can be a "meeting moderator" or "question asker," and so on. Can you trace - what role do you play in your standard communications?
• Another layer of roles is usually overlooked, the roles that the agent plays in the system of "an agent who wants to adapt to the entire set of environments" -- there is a constant stabilization of the system by different means, not always those that are beneficial to the roles performed by practices in your projects. This layer can arise and disappear in seconds or be constantly present in the background. For example, a person can be distracted, irritated, scared, in love, and this makes them try to stabilize - to feel safe or do something based on affect.

How agents get into roles and why

Context

It is not what is said directly, but what is conveyed through context that puts the agent in a role:

• workplace attributes and objects from there - a set of activity roles;
• negotiation - standard communication roles of the agent;
• tone of voice, gestures, emotional fluctuations or attentional state, fatigue, energy level - a set of roles related to "an agent who wants to adapt to the environment."

Other agents

• They can give verbal, gestural, and other cues to set the role and help remove other roles.
• They can switch during creation and help create mastery that helps play the role better.