Team Building & Dynamics
Using the DISC system of behavioral analysis allows you to build stronger and more productive teams by:
- Strengthening communication
- Minimizing conflict
- Maximizing productivity
- Increasing effectiveness
- Improving morale
Assessing your team using the DISC system provides you with the tools you need to fully develop the talent that already exists with your current personnel, increase productivity, enhance teamwork and cooperation and ultimately increase your bottom line.
How it works
PeopleKeys uses the DISC system of behavioral analysis. The DISC system provides a common language throughout the organization and will lay the foundation for improving communication, maximizing personal strengths and minimizing weaknesses.
Understanding yourself and those you work with provides the following benefits:
- Creates an atmosphere of teamwork and cooperation
- Improves morale and communication
- Allows team members to recognize and capitalize on their strengths
- Allows team members to recognize and capitalize on the strengths of others
Through a greater understanding of behavioral styles, your team is better able to recognize and meet the needs of those they serve.
Five Keys to Effective Teams
Through more than thirty years of helping companies of all sizes maximize team effectiveness, we have identified five keys common to all effective teams:
- Trust
- Communication
- Common Goals
- Mutual Respect
- Tolerance
Each of the keys to effective teams requires you to know the personality and behavioral style of yourself and your team members.
Well-Rounded Teams
The most effective teams are those comprised of people who possess differing strengths and more importantly, the ability to identify and apply those strengths appropriately.
or Dominant team members provide the following strengths and limitations to a team:
- Great bottom-line organizers
- May overstep authority
- Places high value on time
- May seem argumentative
- Challenges the status-quo
- Dislikes routine
- Can handle multiple tasks at once
- May attempt too much at once
Influencing team members provide the following strengths and limitations to a team:
- Great communicator
- Inattentive to details
- Motivates others to achieve
- Talks more than listens
- Positive sense of humor
- May also be sarcastic
- Negotiates well
- Impulsive
Steady team members provide the following strengths and limitations to a team:
- Reliable and dependable
- Resistant to change
- Loyal, patient and trustworthy
- Possessive
- Great “team player”
- May seem slow paced and stubborn
- Peacemaker, maintains harmony
- Keeps feelings to themselves
Compliant team members provide the following strengths and limitations to a team:
- Great with facts and information
- Gets bogged down in details
- Focused on maintaining quality
- May seem defensive and critical
- Thorough and meticulous
- Unwilling to break rules
- Great analyzers and developers
- Non-verbal
Knowing your strengths and the strengths of those on your team can help you to maximize your effectiveness.
As a team leader or member of a team, being aware of your style, as well as knowing the styles of the people around you can give you the insight you need to get the most out of your team.
Being able to recognize your own personality style and its strengths and weaknesses and the personality styles of your team, will give you valuable insight you can use to understand an important dynamic to your team and best utilize the strengths they bring to the team.
Become “people literate” and increase your effectiveness as a leader with solutions from PeopleKeys. For more information on your own personality style, or how to become a better communicator and become a more effective team leader or member, contact… Jeff Rossbach: 941-224-3059 mobile.