PI Design for Building Effective Teams
A team tool for creating high performing teams
Building High Performing Teams with PI Design
Achieving team goals can be difficult even in the best of times. Throw in mistrust, miscommunication, and misalignment, and the obstacles start to stack up. PI Design gives you a common language to understand individual strengths and contributions aligned with a collective team strategy to achieve faster and better results.
How to Build a Successful Team with PI Design
Help leaders understand each team member's strengths and contributions
Reveal the impact of a leader’s style on different team personalities
Provide guidance for leadership adjustments to improve team cohesion
Ensure each team member feels supported and set up for success
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
How Do You Build a Team?
Building effective teams is all about removing the fear of taking risks. Studies show that people leave out 8% of what they have to say and this is generally out of concern for the reaction. These concerns extend to:
- Appearing unqualified
- A colleague getting in trouble
- Anxiety
- Not trusting the team, or not feeling trusted within the team
Effective teams are able to close this 8% by making each team member feel their contributions are valued and will not have adverse effects on their role. PI Inspire is a team tool that is used to build high performing teams that trust and rely on one another.
How to Build a Team That STAYS Successful
Feedback should be a learning experience. Information given for improving a project should be explained in such a way that employees can apply it to future work. Furthermore, team effectiveness allows for change. Handling a task one way might be the best approach now, but as technology evolves, different types of collaboration may be necessary.
Qualities of Effective Teams
Team effectiveness is dependent on a number of factors including trust, communication and innovative thinking. When using PI Inspire for building a team, consider the following:
- Team members are comfortable speaking their mind, even during difficult conversations
- Team members feel connected to one-another and have a personal investment in seeing one-another succeed
- Team members possess the skills required to accomplish their tasks and can accommodate for areas of weakness in others
- Goals are aligned and all team members are working toward a common purpose
- The team contains individuals with diverse perspectives which can be utilized for develop progressive workflows
- The team understands their role within the greater scope of the organization and is connected to other teams in a way that provides perspective
- Team members are comfortable both giving and receiving feedback
- Team members hold each other to high performance standards and recognize one another for exceptional work
How Does PI Design Work for Team Assessment?
PI Design determines team effectiveness using a work style assessment. By assessing the different work styles among participants, PI Design can predict team effectiveness.
What is My Work Style?
There are four main types of work styles:
- Idea-oriented people excel at innovation and are very enthusiastic about making their ideas a reality. However, they can sometimes lose focus when following through, once the creative thinking step has passed.
- Logical people are dedicated to finding problems and solving them efficiently. However, they sometimes fail to communicate with their peers about their plans or their implementations.
- Detail-oriented people are committed to accuracy and tend to be very well-organized. However, their output is sometimes very slow due to their meticulous approach.
- Supportive people aim to keep everyone happy and foster a positive work environment. However, they can also be indecisive in situations where it is impossible to please everyone.
What is your work style? Find out with PI Design!
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