Does your team struggle to connect? Do group discussions stall? Are you left with more questions than answers after meetings? With Conversation Starters on Catalyst™, your teams can use DiSC® to tackle common challenges that hinder performance.
By combining DiSC with simple discussion guides, Conversation Starters equips your teams to talk about personality-based differences—helping you get to know each other faster, communicate more clearly, and make better decisions.
Getting started is easy!
1. Visit the Your Groups feature on Catalyst. (If you want a Catalyst demo just DM me).
2. Create and save a group with people in your organization
3. Click into Conversation Starters and choose a topic
All it takes is 30 minutes and a Catalyst profile for your team to start working (and performing!) better together.
Visit Catalyst to get started today!
Support your Agile Workforce
We can all see that our organizations have changed and hierarchical structures have been replaced by matrixed teamwork. It is more important than ever to build productive and satisfying working relationships to build retention, engagement and results! The Five Behaviors profiles are powerful tools to do this - let me know if you would like a demo or want to put it in place in your organization.
We are now on multiple teams, we are working differently due to advances in technology and globalization, and we need to create cohesive teams quickly to enable results. This tool uses Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions model and applies it to each individual, who can then disperse the key takeaways throughout their organization.
The Five Behaviors Personal Development profile was designed specifically to work for individuals; participants do not all need to be part of the same team. Rather, participants can carry the takeaways of this program from one team to the next, enabling a culture of teamwork. Learners at all levels of an organization can benefit from this program and adopt its powerful principles, shape behaviors, and create a common language that empowers people to rewrite what it means to work together.
It can be delivered virtually or in person and each person's profile is personalized to them and how they show up on any team they are on. Call me for a demo or for more information.
The State of Teams
The current pandemic has put a spotlight on the importance of teaming and collaboration in a fluid environment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. conducted a survey in February and early March 2020 to investigate how employees and employers are responding to the dynamic nature of teams in the workplace. Based on the responses of 20,000+ employees from individual contributors to C-suite executives across a wide range of industries, they found that teams suffer from a critical interpersonal skills gap that impedes their potential to achieve. Here are some highlights of their results:
People are on several teams (76% of respondents) and the higher up one goes in an organization, the more teams they are on (Directors and Execs reported 5+ teams).
People are working on more types of teams. (73% of respondents). These types include departmental, project, cross-functional, management and matrix.
Teams are more dispersed. (28% of people reported working on a team with someone based in another country and 51% reported working on a team where at least 1 member collaborated virtually).
Individuals are often unaware or unable to consistently practice the behaviors that will ensure team success. 99% of people agreed with the statement “I am a good team member” BUT..
79% reported that their teammates don’t acknowledge their weaknesses to each other, lowering trust.
55% leave meetings without collective commitment to agreed-upon decisions, lowering the collective commitment level.
59% say their team members don’t take personal responsibility to improve team performance moving forward, bringing down accountability.
Time and money are wasted dealing with ineffective teamwork. Employees reported spending 7 hours/week with the effects of poor teamwork which equates to 2 months a year and in financial terms, that’s $1 Trillion dollars per year in the US.
High stress leads to high turnover. 42% have left jobs due to bad team experiences.
Nearly everyone agreed that it would be worth their time to develop and improve their teamwork skills. 98% of managers, directors and executives believed skill development is absolutely worth their team’s time and 86% said effective teamwork is more important to their organization’s success now than it was 5 years ago.
And the repercussions of COVID-19 make teamwork more important. 22% stated they were not confident that their teams could maintain the same performance levels virtually and 29% said they are not confident that they will feel personally connected as they work remotely. As many more teams have now become physically separated, the need for a strong foundation of teamwork and communication among colleagues is more important than ever before.
We have tools to help you make the most of your virtual teamwork during this time of change. Look on this website for more on the Five Behaviors products and call me at 704-372-9842 to learn how to put them in place on your teams.
