Teams are changing the workplace
Gone are the days when people simply plug into jobs on an org chart
We apply intellectual diversity to teams by looking at both the PEOPLE and the WORK.
The technology scans the PEOPLE so that we know what positions they play on a team AND how each person plays their position. The Team Dashboard shows each person's traits on one page. When people are playing in position and contributing their natural traits to the team, they feel like part of the team.
The WORK of the team also can be described by these traits. Together as a team or with just the team leader, we draw circles around the work. Those circles are shaped into roles that fit your team members based on their traits and positions.
For us, a team is a 3-7 person group focused on a shared scoreboard.
This changes the way we look at teams. Individuals raise their emotional intelligence. Managers get tools to shift the work to better fit their teams. And organizations build out a team of teams strategy.
Remote working is also changing the workplace
This approach is timely for many organizations that are rethinking how they structure their teams and the work. Every organization is dealing with different challenges as they navigate employee preferences and corporate responsibility. For some, this is the time to make a shift.
This technology gives managers tools to shift the work to better fit a mix of remote and in-office workers. And it makes organizations more competitive in a complicated job market.
OND's technology measures 13 cognitive, motivational, and behavioral traits
Disruptive Technology
When Google launched two decades ago, it looked like magic. But it worked and their search technology disrupted the way we look for information (and became a verb).
Uber made taxis look archaic a decade ago. Their smartphone technology disrupted the way we hired a ride (and became a verb).
Today, OND's Intellect Scan disrupts the way we structure teams because of neuroscience breakthroughs.
Leveraging the Technology
Options to integrate OND's scanning technology
Self-Supporting
Give your people access so that they can apply it organically as they grow in their position
External Coaching
Support your people with external coaches who come alongside as they integrate the technology into the way they do their work
Internal HR
Create a center of excellence that develops your leaders, managers, and contributors by integrating the technology into your culture
Common Applications
Customize your application of OND's scanning technology
For Team Members
Team Positioning
Discover the natural position you gravitate to when collaborating on a team
Intellectual Diversity
Understanding your traits, how they focus your work, and where they introduce biases
Positional Narrative
A strengths-based view into how you play your natural position
Positional Influence
A performance-based view into your influence with others
For Team Leaders
Team Dashboard
Aggregates individuals into a “team fingerprint”
Circles of Work
Organize work into roles and collaborate to stay in position
Managing People
Manage both the collaboration across teams and the work defined for each job
Developing People
Coach individuals to develop skills based on their traits and position
For Business
Sales
Match up your sales "team" to the customer's buying "team" and increase the odds of closing deals
Recruiting
Write job descriptions based on the likelihood of an individual matching up with your requirements
What about people who feel awkward about this stuff?
This is something we've struggled with over the years. Do we really need assessments to get to know people and work together? Of course not.
Every technology advancement creates pushback. Two generations ago, companies clinged to their mainframe computers as PC's decentralized computing. One generation ago, the Internet was known as the World Wide Web and seemed one part scary and one part overwhelming. Today, parents wrestle with their children's use of smartphones and gaming consoles to stay connected to their friends.
As neuroscience shows us the relational power of the human brain, technology will help us in ways that we cannot even imagine. This technology has already shown how we misjudged the people closest to us. We've already experienced how scanning accelerates one-one-one collaboration, how scanning changes the way teams go through the forming-storming-norming-performing stages, and how scanning helps people navigate a messy dating world to form new relationships with deeper roots.
What if we already have used something else?
Psychometric tools are popular, with DISC being the most common today. DISC is a behavioral personality model, and you can read more about it here. The majority of these first generation assessments are measuring behaviors and have a mixed track record.
Our multi-dimensional scan measures the logical and emotional dimensions and aligns with the latest neuroscience breakthroughs on human intellect. OND's technology was built in 2003 for organizations to gain a competitive advantage in a team-based work environment. And it has spread because neuroscience has caused us to rethink many other aspects of our lives.
Getting into Position
DISC describes four personality styles.
Our scan enables people to get into the natural position that fulfills them.
Eliminating Assumptions
DISC is a behavioral assessment created in 1941 that measures 4 traits to describe an individual's behavior pattern.
We measure 13 cognitive, motivational, and behavioral traits. Neuroscience is revealing how the mind's thinking and emotions shape an individual's behavior. It helps you see why an individual behaves the way they do.
Taking Perspective
DISC describes four communication styles.
Our scan reveals the filter an individual uses when communicating. This enables us to hear an individual's perspective and recognize where we talk past one another.
Increasing Influence
DISC predicts potential behavioral conflicts.
Our scan enables us to explore where we can increase our influence. This is based on a individual's natural position and promotes advancement into more significant work and leadership positions.
Business Results
Computer-generated profiles offer generalities about people.
Our technology creates alignment between team members and the work they do. We accomplish this with a team dashboard, circles of work, and a management approach that amplifies intellectual diversity.