What’s My Team Member Style is team building assessment for management development training that identifies team member personality style and develops the interpersonal skills needed for effective teamwork. Team members learn personal style, how to capitalize on personal strengths, minimize potential weaknesses, and adapt to better relate to others.

Teams are made up of people – and people are complex! The mixture of different backgrounds, opinions, personalities, and levels of expertise can make it difficult to get a group of people to perform together well. Understanding personal style is a step in the right direction. What’s My Team Member Style is an assessment that gives insight into how team members behave, both individually and with each other.

Easy to use and easy to apply, the assessment measures team member preferences for one or more basic behavioral styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate and Systematic. What’s My Team Member Style also includes a feedback component that gives individuals a sense of how they are viewed by others. Combining the self assessment with peer perceptions enables individuals to better understand their behavior, learn how to adapt it to improve interpersonal relationships, develop rapport, and ultimately, become more effective team members. 

 

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Theory and Development

Uses for the Assessment

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The power behind What’s My Team Member Style and the other HRDQ Style Series products lies in the simple but effective model for understanding human behavior. Based on the proven personality theories of Marston and Jung, the model identifies two basic dimensions of personal style: Assertiveness and Expressiveness. Assertiveness is the effort a person makes to influence or control the thoughts or actions of others. Expressiveness is the effort that a person makes to control his or her emotions and feelings when relating to others. Combining the two dimensions results in a four-quadrant model with four unique personal styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic. The simplicity of the HRDQ Style Model is easy for trainers to facilitate and memorable for employees and managers to apply.

 

 

What’s My Team Member Style is appropriate for anyone to use for both personal and management development. The assessment can be used as a standalone training assessment, or it can be incorporated into a more comprehensive team building training program. 

 

 

What’s My Team Member Style does not promote one “correct” team member style. Instead, the goal is to help individuals identify their personal style, learn how to capitalize on it, overcome trouble spots, and learn how to interact more effectively with others.

 

The assessment starts with an 18-item inventory that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Individuals assign a total of 5 points between pairs of statements, dividing the points according to how much they believe each statement describes their behavior. Scoring the assessment reveals a “My Team Member Style Profile” and a dominant preference for one or more four personal styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic. In addition to the self assessment, the What’s My Team Member Style Feedback Form allows individuals to gauge how they are perceived by others on their team.

 

If you are planning to use What’s My Team Member Style in a classroom training session, we recommend you allow approximately 1 hour for interpretation of scores, topic discussion, debrief, and action planning. The What’s My Team Member Style Facilitator Guide includes everything you need to lead a successful training session from comprehensive background information and activities, to reproducible handouts and  a professional PowerPoint presentation. The Facilitator Guide also offers an easy-to-follow workshop outline that expands What’s My Team Member Style into a 2-hour program.

 

 

Initial Rollout

 

You will need to order a Facilitator Guide per trainer and 1 Participant Guide for each team member. If you plan to incorporate feedback into your training, we recommend ordering 3 Feedback Forms for each individual learner. The Starter Kit is a great way to begin your rollout and includes a Facilitator Guide, 5 Print Participant Guides, and 15 Feedback Forms. Additional Participant Guides and Feedback Forms may be purchased separately. Purchasing all of the participant materials you need at one time may qualify you for quantity discounts that can save you money and simplify ordering.

 

If you are new to this product we highly recommend HRDQ QuickStart Training, whether you are a novice trainer or a seasoned facilitator. It’s an excellent way to quickly get up to speed on the product so you can step into your first training class with confidence. Personalized, one-on-one telephone coaching is provided at your convenience. Our subject matter experts will review the program with you, offer ideas for tailoring the program to your specific needs, discuss typical participant questions and reactions, and more. 
 
Ongoing Training
 
Each time you administer the assessment you will need to order a new Participant Guide for each individual as well as Feedback Forms if you are using the peer component. Quantity discounts begin at 50 units per order. Additional Facilitator Guides are also available for individual purchase if you have additional trainers or require a new copy.

 

Assessment

 

10 minutes

 

 

Kate E. Wartchow, PhD