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Discus Team:  A Systems Approach to Managing Team Behavior

High performance requires a balance between technical suitability and behavioral suitability.  It's not how well you do the work, it's how well you do the work together.

Discus Team is a unique software package that takes DISC to the next level.  Discus Team takes individual profiles and downloads them into everything from specialized reports on individual working relationships to a general analysis of the overall team.

Discus Team provides you with an empirical method to analyze:

• Behavioral compatibility of team members

• Behavioral factors that will drive or retrain team performance

• The ideal profile of a team

• The ideal mix of team members

Discus Team is a real-time interactive process with immediate feedback that includes:

• Team analysis

• Relationship reports between any set of two team members

• Leadership analysis

• Customer analysis

• Team role definitions

• Database matching to identify team members

• Ideal team modeling

Discus Team provides the ability to:

• Significantly reduce time from team startup to productivity

• Immediately analyze team strengths, limitations and development needs

• Profile customers and match "best fit" team members

• Model ideal teams and match and pick most suitable team members

• Analyze individual team member relationships

• Identify the leadership demands of the team

• Select the "best fit" team leader

• Determine the impact of adding or removing team members

Organizations and Team Leaders will be able to:

• Develop team role descriptions with the same accuracy as functional roles

• Create, organize and manage teams using behavioral metrics

• Identify and leverage the team's operational style

• Understand, predict and manage the team member interactions

• Understand a teams strengths and potential

• Identify potential alignment or conflict between any combination of individuals

• Understand the leadership expectations and needs of the team members

• Discover the main team motivators

• Find ideal additions to a team

• Create entirely new teams suited to specific tasks

Benefits and Uses:

• Conduct strategic planning meetings that focus on outcome rather than personalities

• Match customer teams with behaviorally compatible sales teams

• Leverage the behavioral diversity of all employees impacted by mergers and acquisitions

• Identify the behavioral compatibility and gaps between any two teams down to any two team members

• Create a behavioral profile for any team and search your (Discus) database for the best team members

Discus Team:

• Is available in eight languages

• Has adjective and phrase-based versions to deal with literacy and ESL issues

• Is part of a system that includes customer satisfaction measures and prescriptive learning solutions

• Is a rapid resolution methodology

"More teams fail because of behavioral incompatibilities than because of technical incompetence."