Now you have your profiles, what can you do with them? Here are some quick examples and guides to help you.
Team Profiling Exercise
Download a team a discussion exercise after your team have completed their profiles and see how team alignment forms.
Ideas
Choose a focus
Let's say communication is an issue. Ask team members to imagine they are communicating an idea to someone opposite in style to them. Pair people up if you have a big enough team. They then create a poster/presentation/email or video and share, and explaining their thought process. The opposite styles then feedback.
Team culture
Members add their styles on a DiSC or grid via a whiteboard. Members then discuss how the mix of styles might influence the way in which they work together, the culture and team dynamics.
Together they can understand how their behavioural preferences might influence or impact other members.
Teambuilding
Choose an activity where team members must work together virtually or in person. Members are secretly allocated a style. Ask members to behave in the behaviours of another style throughout the activity. Other members must guess which style they are playing. Reflect on how easy or challenging it was to adopt other styles. What can they learn from that?
Feedback
Ask members to prepare a feedback session with someone in a different style category. Ask members to plan a feedback conversation, ensuring they deliver it in way that will ensure the recipient will feel comfortable, understand, reflect on the feedback. What do members need to consider? Environment, tone, timing, behaviour, body language, evidence?
Some companies have style cards printed to enable members to quickly identify which style a person is. You could ask members to wear their colours during the session or add a background to their remote room. The Everything Catalyst platform enables members to view comparison reports, so they can have open conversations about each others preferences. You could discuss them in one to one sessions and create development plans.