Team performance begins with individual performance. So, what do team members need to do individually to contribute to their team’s success? What’s My Team Member Style? provides the needed insight. The 18-item assessment helps individuals evaluate how they typically behave on a team and the results reveal their preference for one of 4 team member styles. With increased awareness, they are able to appreciate other team members’ contributions and address differences proactively.

(Check two recent uses of the What's My... tools on our Team Blog.)

Learning Outcomes

• Learn about the 4 team member styles
• Identify personal team member style
• Understand how to capitalize on style strengths and improve trouble spots
• Identify the styles of fellow teammates
• Plan how to take full advantage of the team mix of styles
• Realize how one is perceived by team members through peer feedback

Theory

What’s My Team Member Style? and the other titles in the Style Series are based on the well-known research and personality theories of psychologists Carl Jung, William Moulton Marston, and others. Most research has identified two basic dimensions of style, which we refer to as 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. 

How It Works

Participants respond to 18 statements using a pressure-sensitive form. After scoring is complete, easy-to-read charts allow respondents to quickly scan the strengths and trouble spots that characterize their particular team member styles. To better understand how they are perceived, individual team members can then view Feedback Forms provided by their fellow teammates.

The Facilitator Guide features optional activities that allow participants to practice using flexibility when working with other styles. These activities utilize Feedback Forms (completed by team members prior to the training session) and StylePlay. Each Participant Guide provides a worksheet for positive personal action planning, a diagram for creating a team profile, and team action planning. 

Uses for What’s My Team Member Style?

What’s My Team Member Style? is an excellent way to kick off any team-building training and can be used as a stand-alone tool or as part of a larger program. It is most effective for members of intact teams who are in the training session together. The assessment can also assist team members in identifying work roles that fit with their team member styles.

What to Order

Order one Facilitator Kit per trainer and one Participant Guide per participant. To give participants insight on how they are viewed by each other, order enough Feedback Forms for each individual to provide feedback on fellow team members. 

  Facilitator Kit includes:

• Administrative guidelines
• Theoretical background
• Experiential learning methodology
• Optional 2-hour workshop
• Alternative training design (3-hour workshop)
• 3 optional supplemental activities (required: StylePlay - 12 Group Card Games and Feedback Forms)
• Training outline template
• Technical information including validity and normative data
• Sample copy of Participant Guide
• Sample copy of Feedback Form
• CD-ROM containing Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation and reproducible masters (activity handout, certificate of achievement, and training evaluation)
• Convenient binder format

  Participant Guide includes:

• 18-item assessment
• Instructions
• Pressure-sensitive response form
• Interpretive information
• Charts depicting style strengths and trouble spots
• Overview of style-work role matches
• Individual action planning worksheet
• Team profile diagram
• Team action planning worksheet

  Feedback Form includes:

• 18-item assessment
• Instructions