Have you ever wondered what the communication styles of your direct reports look like? Have you wondered why your team may not be as motivated as it needs to be, or you would like it to be? I have watched firsthand the unintended negative effects of my communication choices missing the mark. I’ve also been on the receiving end, where someone’s communication style made me shut down or want to withdraw. If only there was a tool that could help us gel as a team through building relational trust and learning strategies that promote team motivation.
The unique and innovative Forté Team Pulse Report is designed to help individuals best understand how they fit, are adapting, and can achieve success with their teammates.
Quickly, the team leader and team members see exactly which strengths and behaviors get the job done most efficiently. Misunderstanding is significantly reduced and appreciation for how team members can best adapt and balance with one another is clear.
The report contains:
- Individual strengths, shared together, provide a composite look into the primary strengths of the team.
- The current adapting styles for each team member combine to indicate how the team is adapting to its environment over the most recent 30 days.
- Pro Tip: Use this report to look at how a team is adapting to its customers and how it is adapting internally to upstream or downstream teams, and especially learn what the top-performing teams are doing differently to create coaching strategies for other teams that may not be doing as well.
- The current perceiver patterns, show how the team is most likely coming across to others, now and for the next 30 days. This is invaluable information and a very serious driver of enhanced productivity.
- Graphics that share individual team member-strength intensities as a measure of how each member relates to each other’s strengths.
- A composite graph that shares team strengths, including the team’s current logic style, current stamina level, current goals index and a measurement of team resiliency.
Business benefits include:
- The Forté Team Pulse Report can be updated as often as every 30 days, so leadership stays in touch and on top of evolving team needs, effectiveness and trends. Life goes on …
- Leadership learns quickly the behaviors of exceptional performers.
- Team members respond positively when they understand those behaviors, as well, as they become attainable goals.
- The message becomes clear. It is not so much who you are, but how you adapt to others and situations that makes not only the individual successful but the team successful, too.
- As team members come, grow, or go, leadership easily updates their Team Pulse Reports to quickly understand the dynamics of their “new” team. There is also high value in sharing this with the “new team”, so team members can appreciate the dynamic that has occurred.
Many leaders coach to outcomes instead of coaching to the behaviors that drive those outcomes. The Forté Team Pulse report creates the visibility a leader needs to most effectively lead and evolve a team to the next level.
If you would like to take the journey with us, click
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Then, if you like what you see, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss how Forté can share with you the pulse of your team and help the team realize its full potential.
C.D. “Hoop” Morgan, III is the founder and chairman of The Forté Institute, LLC, a global behavioral sciences firm best known for developing and providing innovative people, process and interpersonal performance-improvement solutions.
Morgan is recognized as a master in developing effective individuals, leaders and teams. He is the author and developer of the proprietary, computerized Forté Interpersonal Communication Style Profile, which is used throughout the world. What would evolve into what is now Forté began in the late 1970s as a quest by Morgan to find a statistically valid instrument that would help identify an individual's personal communication-style strengths.
Morgan is a graduate of Missouri Southern State University. His educational background also includes Understanding and Solving Complex Business Problems at MIT’s Sloan School of Management; Reinventing Your Business Strategy at Sloan School of Management; and the Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives and Dealing with Difficult People in Difficult Situations at Harvard Law School.
His interests and activities have included membership on the University of Missouri School of Journalism Broadcast Sequence Advisory Council, Missouri Council for Higher Education, Rotary International, American Statistical Association, and other national, regional and local community and service organizations.
