Curious to know what your Reference Profile means about you? This course will cover everything you need to know about who a Collaborator is, how they work on a team, and how they lead. Start by checking out this intro video to understand Collaborators at a high level. “As a Collaborator, I focus on the…
Understanding your Team Type is the first step toward building a dream team. Just as important, however, is understanding the work your team is looking to accomplish. At PI, we’ve identified 10 Strategy Types used to describe common team objectives. By visualizing your Team Type and Strategy Type side by side, you’ll be able to…
Every leader has their own natural strengths. As a leader with a unique behavioral profile, you likely have strengths that play to your business objectives—as well as caution areas that can hinder your goals. You can visualize those strengths and gaps by way of a PI framework known as “Work Styles.” The Work Styles framework…
As you’ve seen before, every leader has their own natural strengths. However, you don’t work in a vacuum. Other members of your team have their own strengths and caution areas that affect business outcomes. Relationship dynamics are pivotal to team effectiveness. Let’s explore working with people whose strengths are opposite to yours. You + those…
The PI Behavioral Assessment provides a deep look into an individual’s workplace behavior, including their natural drives and needs. Consider that the majority of work is done as a team, however, and it’s important to understand how individual work styles manifest as a collective team identity. The larger the group, the more complex that identity…
So, you now know that self-awareness and a unified goal will help us achieve team cohesion. What’s next? There are a few actions you can take—some deliberate and others in the form of a change in mindset. Whether you’re building a new team or just adding a new member, you should always start with the…
If team cohesion is as simple as having one unified goal, then why do so many teams struggle with this? One key factor is self-awareness. A lack of self-awareness can cause even a team with clear goals to fumble. If individuals don’t understand themselves, it will be difficult to interpret how to interact with others….
Two employees not seeing eye to eye? Use this guide to facilitate a discussion on how their natural strengths can contribute to a better working relationship using PI’s Relationship Guide. Looking to have this conversation today? Download the low C one-pager. For those with more time, continue reading for a five step guide on using behavioral data…
Just because you have a clear vision doesn’t always lead to a high-performing culture, although it does help. Before building your culture, you first need to take into account the current culture. Do you already promote strong leadership principles, employee development, etc.? If so, what areas need the most improvement? Don’t try to tackle all…
Whether you’re looking to make a shift in your existing culture or build one for the first time, you need to start with a vision. What is your organization trying to achieve, and how do you want you and your employees to interpret the work to be done? Let’s say you want to be the…
Organizational culture represents your business’s core values, rewarded behaviors, and, ultimately, performance drivers. Culture is a result of deliberate, intentional action, so you’ll need to make sure you take calculated measures to build your culture in a way that benefits your organization. But what does it mean to have a culture that promotes high performance?…
Teams are primarily used to add multiple people to tools like Team Discovery or Analytics. To access Teams, click the browse menu in the top left corner of the software and select Teams from the dropdown. Create a Team 1. Click ‘Create a new team’ at the top. A pop-out window on the right will…