THE CAPTAIN'S METHOD™Richard D. Lewis
Where this shows up in the Captain’s Method
The source notes place the Lewis Model in the Capacity part of the Captain's Method, beside the Collaborative Communication chapter, where collaboration is how we build a shared vision. Its sharpest use is Stage 1 of the Return Map, Map Stakeholder ACCORD, where the Compatibility factor asks how well a plan fits a stakeholder's way of working. A member who knows whether a stakeholder leans linear-active, multi-active or reactive can then write the Stage 2 Fact Sheet Summary in a form that person will read. The same reading feeds the Writing chapter's Audience step, which the curriculum calls ACCORD run on one reader.
- Capacity
His model turns reading another person's communication style into a skill a member can practice.
- Environment
He shows how the culture people grow up in shapes how a team talks, plans and disagrees.
- Focus
It trains attention on pace, silence and interruption, signals most people miss.
Richard D. Lewis was born in 1930 in Wigan, Lancashire. In 1955 he opened the first Berlitz language school in Finland, then schools in Norway and Portugal, and in 1966 he opened Berlitz in Tokyo, where he spent five years and tutored members of Japan's imperial family, among them the future Empress Michiko. He chairs Richard Lewis Communications, a cross-cultural training firm. Finland knighted him in 1997 for forty years of helping the country build international links.