Build your team's ability to engage and get the best from your workforce using the DiSC family of profiles by asking me to lead their certification! DM me to set up a schedule that works for all of us.
Make your teams immediately effective together!
If your work life consists of people joining ad hoc teams to solve specific problems, Your Groups on Catalyst™ allows those teams to quickly visualize the preferences and tendencies of their teammates.
Group Continua on Catalyst is an effective (and fun!) tool for teams to build connection and community using DiSC®. By plotting members along eight different behavioral continua, teams gain straightforward language for safe conversations about differences, helping them reach new levels of performance. With Group Continua, your teams can:
• Recognize strengths and challenges
• Communicate with clarity
• Make better decisions
• And more!
This tool helps integrate DiSC® into the daily life of your organization and speeds up team effectiveness on the spot.
2023 Wiley Annual Report on the State of the Workplace
Wiley Workplace Intelligence does ongoing research about the state of our workplaces and here are the top 10 takeaways from their 2023 Annual Report:
1. People are optimistic about the future of their organization. In addition, a large majority of respondents also shared that managing the well-being of their people while achieving results continues to be a priority.
2. Communication is the most important quality in a leader. It's clear that there is a need for more communication and relationship building skills in order to increase psychological safety across all organizational levels.
3. Communication has a direct impact on engagement. The frequency and kind of communication in your organization has a direct impact on the engagement, morale, and productivity of your people.
4. Individual contributors feel less safe than executives taking risks at work. A psychologically safe environment as defined by Amy Edmonson of Harvard B-School, is an environment where we feel comfortable taking risks, expressing ideas and concerns, asking questions, and admitting mistakes without fear of negative consequences.
5. Generations have more in common than not. Surprisingly, respondents largely feel understood by other generations regardless of the generation they belong to.
6. Managers lack training on how to manage conflict. Only 57% of managers reported receiving training around conflict management.
7. Upskilling employees fills the widening skills gap. Most organizations in the study didn't have a clearly identified process for identifying current skills gaps. But, almost half (42%) reported that technical skills were the most critical missing "hard" skills with interpersonal skills following at 36%.
8. Where you work doesn't impact organizational culture. Many organizations made a return-to-office push in 2023. There were concerns about the impacts of remote work on organizational culture and many companies moved from completely remote to hybrid models or required a full return to the office. This research found that location doesn’t have as big of an impact as we might expect when it comes to creating a positive workplace culture. Instead, we found that feeling connected and experiencing a sense of belonging is more critical to creating a positive culture than simply occupying the same physical space.
9. AI is not ready to replace humans when it comes to learning and development. Using AI for administrative tasks increases efficiency but knowing people seek human connection when learning, L & D practitioners should consider ways to continue meeting that need while incorporating technological advances into their practice.
10. Well-being positively impacts performance. Balancing employee satisfaction and productivity ranked the highest, and the increased focus on well-being positively impacted performance throughout these organizations.
I have tools to help you maximize each of these findings. DM me for more information or a demo!
How Management has Changed Since Covid-19
In an Oct. 2023 Forbes article, Anupam Satyasheel outlines how management has changed since Covid-10 and how future-minded, thoughtful organizations have embraced these changes:
1. Remote Work and Flexibility. Some companies insisted workers return to the office after the pandemic, but other realized employees were happier, more productive, and more willing to participate in company culture remotely.
2. Emphasis on Employee Well-Being. Managers who genuinely ask how their employees are doing will gain their trust and confidence, and know that employee well-being amounts to company well-being.
3. Digital Transformation. We can't forget that employee are the operators of the increased technology we see. Good management encourages online interactions and creates digital experiences for employees.
4. Remote Team Building and Leadership. In a remote work environment, team bonding is not naturally cultivated. This needs to be an intentional effort by managers to maintain morale.
5. Talent Acquisition and Retention. Hiring and retaining talent has become a different effort because interviewing is often remote and managers don't have the bandwidth to respond to every job application. In terms of retaining talent, managers should be proactive with department and team meetings, check-ins and continuous team building.
Our Five Behaviors Personal and Team Development profiles/facilitated conversations can be done virtually or in-person and create a language and connection that's not easily achieved otherwise. DM me for more info or a demo!
Manage tension with some help
Disagreements at work can be stressful. With Get Advice on Catalyst, you can get immediate online access to ways to navigate tense conversations, build empathy, and turn conflict into compromise. Contact me to learn more! #GetAdviceonCatalyst
Build your culture's teamwork one team member at a time
In the modern workplace, team members must navigate an environment that is in constant flux. That’s no easy task, and employees must be flexible, socially adept, and relationship-savvy in order to navigate interpersonal challenges and achieve collective gains within and across their teams. But solid teamwork doesn’t happen overnight, and it’s not necessarily an innate skill. Teamwork must be developed and practiced—and it requires the right framework in order to thrive. The Five Behaviors® Personal Development can be your solution for building a culture of teamwork. Call me for more info or a demo assessment!
Introducing The combined Five Behaviors® Facilitation Kit!
If you want to build a culture of teamwork in your organization, you can get certified in The Five Behaviors content, and The combined Five Behaviors® Facilitation Kit is now live! Bringing together both Personal and Team Development in a single kit, it will give you the flexibility to deliver the right solution for any organizational need.
What’s in the new kit?
1. Team Development for building cohesive intact teams:
-1- and 3-day facilitation guide with videos and activities
-Customizable PowerPower® Point Slides
-Annotated Facilitator Reports
2. Personal Development for building a culture of teamwork:
-Half-day facilitation guide with videos and activities
-Customizable PowerPoint® Slides
This combined Kit only costs $1,495 (previously $2,990) and you'll have what you need to lead sessions to build a common language around teamwork. It comes in downloadable or usb formats - DM me today to get one in your 2023 budget!
Build a culture of cohesive teamwork throughout your organization!
You can build a culture of cohesive teamwork in your organization and here's how! You can get certified to deliver engaging and impactful Five Behaviors learning experiences in your organization. The certification is a 2-week immersive experience that combines live, instructor-led sessions with self-guoded online learning and you will leave with:
- a deep understanding of The Five Behaviors model and key principles,
- the full Five Behaviors solution portfolio: Team Development and Personal Development
- confidence from practice with facilitation techniques with feedback from your peers
- access to Wiley's Online Training Center which you can continue to access after the course ends.
- once you pass the exam, you will earn the title of Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner which you can take with you to any organization.
The cost is $2,495 with no continuing annual fee. Message me to register for a session in 2023 or 2024!
Build everyone's awareness of how they show up on teams!
Teamwork starts at the individual level. But in a modern workplace that is high-speed and high-stakes, how can you equip people to quickly build cohesiveness and deliver results? We have the solution.
The Five Behaviors™ Personal Development solution teaches individuals to become better teammates by integrating Patrick Lencioni’s model across the entire organizational. The goal is to completely redefine teamwork and collaboration.
Personal Development 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. Call me today to see this powerful model and profile.
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.
It's a buyer's market out there.
Hiring people who want to work, who are committed to your organization’s goals, and who work well within your culture is today’s challenge for lots of reasons. So focusing on tools that cause the hiring process to be more thoughtful and exact, cause people to understand each other quickly as they are onboarded and assigned to various teams, and building fast and effective teamwork will make you and employer of choice. Call me to learn more about these tools.
Make Teamwork your Strategic Focus
Many people see team building as a touchy-feely activity away from work. Actually, it is a critical strategy to achieve results. The Five Behaviors Suite of tools helps your organization introduce Patrick Lencioni’s model and relate it to their work, their personalities and their teams. You will see results almost immediately.
Build Agility. Develop Emotional Intelligence.
The more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous our working environments become, the more critical a truly agile workforce is to success. Each day, we’re called to make progress faster, while pivoting on short notice. To stand firm in our ideas while remaining open to new perspectives. Staying agile demands that we develop and use our emotional intelligence (EQ)—a level of sophistication that we’ve never demanded before. Sound daunting? It doesn’t have to be.
Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™ is a classroom training and personalized learning experience that teaches your teammates to read the emotional and interpersonal needs of a situation and respond accordingly. By combining the personalized insights of DiSC® with active emotional intelligence development, they discover an agile approach to workplace interactions and learn to navigate outside their comfort zone, empowering them meet the demands of any situation.
Pairing their personalized, 26-page Everything DiSC Agile EQ Profile with a half-day facilitation session, your learners will:
1. Discover the instinctive mindsets that shape their responses and interactions
2. Recognize opportunities to stretch beyond what comes naturally to them
3. Take action to become more agile in their approach to social and emotional situations
The result is an emotionally intelligent workforce that can support your thriving agile culture.
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 Five Behaviors model as a tool to develop your organization's teamwork
What Is The Five Behaviors®? Developed in Partnership with Patrick Lencioni, based on his international bestseller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Five Behaviors® transforms teams through a powerful and approachable model that drive team effectiveness and productivity. 89% of The Five Behaviors learners say it improved their team’s effectiveness.
Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is the definitive guide for building healthy teams. The Five Behaviors model focuses on building skills and understanding in the areas of Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results which provides a common language for your teams as they navigate the ever-changing world of work. Simple, sound, and straightforward— this model challenges teams to rethink their approach when working together.
The Five Behaviors® solutions can help you activate your team’s ability to drive results through cohesive teamwork, whether it is with our Personal Development solution which helps individuals learn the skills they need to “team” effectively on any team and build a culture of teamwork, or our Team Development solution which helps intact teams gain the know-how to work better together.
Interested in building an engaged culture with high retention? Get DiSC Certified!
Everything DiSC® Certification offers you a proven way to create a lasting impact on individual and organizational performance.
In this two-week course combining live, instructor-led sessions with self-guided online learning, you will build your confidence and expertise in delivering impactful DiSC learning experiences that help people work better together. Upon successful completion of the course work (including a score of 80% or above on the final Certification exam), you will earn the credential of Everything DiSC Certified Practitioner—signaling proven competence in shaping a high-performing, collaborative culture, knowledgeable in the language of DiSC.
Just click on “Certifications for You” at the top of this site, then “New! Everything DiSC Certification” and you will see the dates in 2022-23 that are still available. Spots go fast so let me know asap. Then after I confirm a spot is available you can purchase your registration by clicking on Products, then Facilitator Certification and choose the one led by Wiley. If you have 5+ people wanting to get certified, I can lead it at a time convenient to you, so just let me know that.
The water we are swimming in and how we can adapt
Based on Deloitte, Gallup and McKinsey analyses, here is what we are facing now in our organizations:
•77% of managers don’t believe in their talent acquisition strategy
•77% of managers don’t believe in their talent acquisition strategy
•73% of employees aren’t engaged
•70% of team members don’t feel considered
•Organizations need help finding and engaging their people.
•Gig economy: by 2020 40% of all workers will be contract
•Skill sets needed in 2030: decrease in basic cognitive, small increase in higher cognitive, large increase in social/emotional
•Continuous learning needed
•Shifting organizational structure – matrixed organizations
•Agile systems, processes needed
• Rapid pace of change
•Disruptive forces
•Globalization
•Demographics diverse in country of origin, age, ethnicity, culture, gender, language
•Technology advancing rapidly
This results in things people in organizations have to do differently now:
•Change direction quickly
•Communicate effectively
•Accept and work well with differences of perspective
•Form effective teams quickly
•Create teamwork with nontraditional arrangements
•Define selves by effectiveness not by title
•Create psychological safety so good ideas can surface
•Create personal connection amid increased technology
•Hire using more than resume – fit now more important
•Share power and information
We have tools to enable you and your organization to adapt and be successful! See our products on this site for more information and call me with your questions or to order!
The Virtual Culture Imperative
Given this pandemic, most of us have shifted to virtual work: creating comfort, boundaries, and functionality in our home spaces, choosing the ways we will communicate and meet, and figuring out what’s most important to communicate while doing our best to manage informal and formal messages.
Creating a virtual workplace where we find ways to bring out the best in each other is now a priority, and it’s not an intuitive skill. It takes guidance, practice, and then more guidance and practice. And with the right leadership, it’s definitely achievable.
In September 2020, Wiley surveyed 2,500 business professionals to better understand the impact of the pandemic on organizations and culture. They ranked skills by importance for virtual work, with these as the top 3:
Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
Social and Emotional Skills
Basic Cognitive Skills
And, while 98% of leaders agreed it’s worth their team’s time to develop their social and emotional akills, only 9% strongly agreed that they know how to make that happen.
That’s where we come in. I have a suite of products you can use either with or without my facilitation to develop your virtual teamwork using these principles:
Everyone is different, so soft skills development must be personalized.
The learning must take place in a social context.
The learning must include reinforcement.
I have scripts and content for virtual delivery that will cause your team to bring out the best in each other and have a personalized learning experience. Call me and we can talk specifics!
