In-depth Personal and Team Profiles
& Communication Skill Building

Effective teams demonstrate solid communication skills among team members. This seminar is focused on the communication challenges people constantly face on the job. Participants gain useful insight on their behavior styles and communication patterns and new ways to promote effective teamwork. We provide an experiential learning approach to observe and experiment with new skills in communication. During a Personal Styles seminar participants can . . .

Identify individual and team challenges that arise during the communication process.

Explore Team Craft's CONNECT model which links behavior styles to communication patterns.

Analyze effective communication strategies for specific work situations.

Practice the skills during experiential teambuilding activities.

Participants genuinely value and enjoy the process of identifying and discussing the personal behavior styles that produce their familiar team dynamics. People come to understand these styles as typical, predictable, and necessary to have in a fully functioning team, in that the differences ensure the kind of diversity necessary to help the team be productive. At times these styles can cause friction and confusion within the team. We describe how this can happen and useful strategies to both take advantage of the strengths and minimize the unpleasantness that can occur, especially in times of stress.

For an in-depth personal and team profile analysis we offer computer-generated individual and team profiles using the DiSC Personal Profile System. These customized documents provide analysis on a variety of factors that describe leadership styles, specific interpersonal dynamics, and role clarification within the team. Helpful suggestions and worksheets are provided to encourage new and effective behaviors within the team. These profiles cost from sixty to one hundred dollars per report, relative to the level of detail provided.  

To produce the report, participants complete a short survey instrument several days before the scheduled program. A day or so before the program, Team Craft e-mails a PDF file to each participant containing a document of about 25 pages describing their personal results - so that everyone can be prepared with questions and observations about their own style at the outset of the program. (See PDF file of sample DiSC profile report available through the link at the bottom of this page.)

At the program we also provide each participant with a customized booklet that includes a compilation of team results in graphic form for easy comprehension, short descriptions of each member's profile strengths, a summary overview of the DiSC model, and several descriptions of key concepts important to developing a clear understanding of the underpinnings of effective teamwork. These concepts include:

• the Stages of Team Development;
  
  
• the Teamwork Grid;
  
  
• the concept of FLOW and the psychology of optimal experience;
  
  
• the CONNECT communication model;
  
  
• and a summary of the research from The Wisdom of Teams.

We use all of this information to support a lively discussion and make several productive observations about how the team can identify its own unique path to high performance.

This program can be conducted in from three to six hours - relative to the level of detail and development the team wants to pursue.

We also provide this program in shorter, less detailed formats.