Team Dimensions Profile Transparency

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Welcome to the Team Innovation Seminar
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• I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

David Livingstone
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Seminar Goals

• Discover the approach you use on teams
• Identify your most comfortable role on a team
• Develop strategies that will help you work on a
  team to create, refine, advance, and implement
  new ideas
• Determine effective ways to balance, integrate,
  and capitalize on the different strengths of each
  team member

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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Getting Started with the Team Dimensions Profile
• Understanding our Team Dimensions patterns
• The Team Dimensions Process
• Dealing with Our Differences
• Together is Better
• Wrap-up

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Introductions

• Partners name
• Position/job
• What frustrated your partner the most about
  working on teams?
• What would your partner like to learn from this
  seminar?
• What does your partner hope the ideal outcome of
  this seminar will be?

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• Any culture, by definition, exists primarily to
  prevent change, to set in stone the lessons of
  the past.

Robert Eaton
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• The problem is never how to get new, innovative
  thoughts into our mind, but how to get the old
  ones out.

Dee Hock
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• Innovation Dilemma

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Janssens Model of Change
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• Ignore, ridicule, attack, copy, steal.

Arthur Jones, Nautilus Inventor
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Teams

• Individuals are creative

• Teams are innovative

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Teams

• Individuals are creative

• Teams are innovative

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Hit the Mark Team Scores
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Getting Started with the Team Dimensions Profile

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Response Example A
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Responses 1-4
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Profile Graph
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Getting Started with the Team Dimensions Profile
• Understanding our Team Dimensions Patterns

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Grid
Spontaneous Approach
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Methodical Approach
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Conceptual Approach

• Likes to come up with new ideas
• Is good at exploring alternatives and discussing
  concepts
• Is good at visualizing the master plan
• Prefers to focus on the future
• Develops theories, principles, and ideas
• Is good at recognizing alternatives

Conceptual Approach
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Spontaneous Approach

• Wants freedom from constraint
• Tends to move from one subject to another
• Focuses on many things at once
• Likes to have respect and influence
• Lets their feelings guide their decision-making

Spontaneous Approach
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Normative Approach

• Prefers to put ideas into familiar context
• Relies on past experiences to guide them
• Likes to see consequences before acting
• Prefers to let others take the lead
• Tries to fit in with others

Normative Approach
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Methodical Approach

• Prefers order and rationality
• Tends to follow a step-by-step process
• Examines the details and thinks things through
  before acting
• Focuses on what they can prove to be true
• Likes to see things fit together

Methodical Approach
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Team Dimensions Roles
Spontaneous Approach
Creator
Advancer
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Executor
Refiner
Methodical Approach
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Creator Role
Spontaneous Approach
Creator
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Methodical Approach
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Advancer Role
Spontaneous Approach
Advancer
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Methodical Approach
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Refiner Role
Spontaneous Approach
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Refiner
Methodical Approach
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Executor Role
Spontaneous Approach
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Executor
Methodical Approach
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Flexer Role
Spontaneous Approach
Creator
Advancer
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Executor
Refiner
Methodical Approach
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Distribution of Patterns
Other Combos
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Advancers
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2 Patterns
Refiners
Executors
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Advancer Axis
Spontaneous Approach
Creator
Advancer
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Executor
Refiner
Methodical Approach
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Refiner Axis
Spontaneous Approach
Creator
Advancer
Conceptual Approach
Normative Approach
Executor
Refiner
Methodical Approach
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Getting Started with the Team Dimensions Profile
• Understanding our Team Dimensions Patterns
• The Team Dimensions Process

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P.E.P. Cycle
Elation
Panic
Panic
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Creator P.E.P. Cycle
Panic
Short-lived stage.
Elation
Gets an idea.
Panic
What if they dont like it?
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Advancer P.E.P. Cycle
Doesnt have any ideas.
Panic
I hear one I like. I have some experience with a
similar idea.
Elation
People poke holes in the ideas and raise
objections to them.
Panic
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Refiner P.E.P. Cycle
No ideas. Advancer brings ideas.
Panic
Clarifies objections, pokes new holes in ideas,
makes them better.
Elation
What if they cant handle the requirements?
Panic
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Executor P.E.P. Cycle
Oh, youre going to change?
Panic
Now I have the information I need and can
implement the plan/idea.
Elation
Afraid it wont work.
Panic
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Flexer P.E.P. Cycle
We have nothing.
Panic
Plays role of dealmaker providing team balance
Elation
What if they dont buy it?
Panic
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Team Z-Process
Creator
Advancer
Executor
Refiner
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The P.E.P. Cycle
Performance
Flexer
Creator
Time
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World Record for the Outdoor 400 Meter
Dash 43.18 Seconds
World Record for the 400 Meter Relay 37.4 Seconds
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Team Z-Process
Creator
Advancer
Executor
Refiner
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Getting Started with the Team Dimensions Profile
• Understanding our Team Dimensions patterns
• The Team Dimensions Process
• Dealing with Our Differences

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The Creator
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The Advancer
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The Refiner
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The Executor
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Hit the Mark Team Scores Part 2
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• Understand, respect, appreciate, and value the
  contributions of each member on the work team.

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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Getting Started with the Team Dimensions Profile
• Understanding our Team Dimensions patterns
• The Team Dimensions Process
• Dealing with Our Differences
• Together is Better

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A Balanced Team
Advancers move things forward.

• Creators develop new concepts.

Flexers can monitor the process and step in to
fill gaps on the team.
Refiners examine details.
Executors follow through on implementation.
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Together, Were Better!
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Getting Started with the Team Dimensions Profile
• Understanding our Team Dimensions patterns
• The Team Dimensions Process
• Dealing with Our Differences
• Together is Better
• Wrap-up

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Seminar Highlights

• We all have natural strengths that enable us to
  perform certain roles comfortably.
• Our individual tendencies toward change make us
  less effective alone that when we are part of a
  team.
• We need to balance our strengths as team members.

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Seminar Highlights

• The Team Dimensions Profile helps us identify our
  most natural approach our most comfortable role
  on a team.

• We can use the Team Dimensions Profile to
  understand how to interact successfully with team
  members with different patterns.
• Being aware of the P.E.P. Cycle can help us
  understand the team process better.

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Seminar Highlights

• The Z-process identifies a model of role
  interactions that demonstrate how each team
  members strengths can be used most effectively.

• We need to understand, respect, appreciate, and
  value the contributions of all team members.

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Action Plan
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Thank You for attending the Welcome to the Team
Innovation Seminar
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