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84% of the global workforce is not fully engaged. Of the 16% of employees that are, their role on a team is a critical factor that drives engagement.

Your teams likely experience frequent performance-inhibiting challenges, including:

Interpersonal conflict leading to workplace stress

Miscommunication due to differing workstyles

Misperceptions of individual contributions

Misunderstood behavior due to poorly-managed stress

Team disunity due to unclear purpose

Lack of psychological safety

The Birkman Method Drastically Helps Your Team:

Create psychological safety to discuss individual styles and get more team input
Increase emotional intelligence by developing self and others awareness
Meet individual expectations and manage unproductive stress behaviors

Boost morale by bringing clarity to the team’s purpose in a way that resonates with each individual
Identify and leverage strengths to facilitate collaboration and maximize performance
Understand perceptual gaps to manage blind spots

High-Performing Teams Program

Our High-Performing Teams program provides a complete framework with tools to drive awareness, action, and drastically enhance how your team works together. Benefits of this team program include:

Improve collaboration by helping teams apply their differentiators to improve performance
Gain an understanding of individual and team strengths, overused strengths, motivators, and expectations
Help employees learn the skills and strategies to build three important elements into their team: Purpose, Clarity, and Psychological Safety

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High-Performing Teams

Birkman At Work Toolkits

Our team building workshop toolkits provides your organization with everything you need to run your own sessions (certification not required), such as visual tools and comparative reports that easily demonstrate your team dynamics. Our three workshop toolkits are:

Birkman Map: Usual & Needs helps individuals learn about themselves and their colleagues through Birkman data. The goal of this workshop is to improve participants’ self-awareness and help teams recognize their diversity and collective strengths.
Birkman Map: Interests helps team members identify their interests to stay energized at work and prioritize daily tasks. The goal of this workshop is to help teams recognize and connect their Interests to real workplace situations.
Birkman Map: Stress allows individuals to understand different sources of stress, techniques to cope, and how to get Needs met to avoid stress. The goal of this workshop is to help teams remain productive and collaborate more effectively.

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Team Toolkit Workshops

Group Birkman Map

Our Group Birkman Map provides easy-to-understand, actionable information for teams to quickly learn about their members and increase their effectiveness. From this report, you can understand:

The activities your team is interested in
The team’s usual style
What motivates your team
How the team’s behavior may change under stress

Improve conflict resolution and communication by better understanding team members’ natural styles and reactions under stress.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How do I implement Birkman into my team?

A: If you want a truly seamless team-building experience, consider the Birkman at Work toolkits, which can be self-facilitated. We can also create a custom, professionally-led workshop for your team’s needs, whether – improving team dynamics, motivating teams, or simple team building. For other ideas, check out our blog.

Q: I have a team of people not interested in spending time on developing communication skills. Can Birkman help?

A: Birkman is a great solution for those that are in the STEM fields or those that may be more naturally interested in their project execution than communication styles, and some of our largest clients love using Birkman with software engineers, accountants, and other technical or scientific roles. Focus on the hard numbers. Our 1 to 99 scales for the Birkman Components show percentile scores that will resonate with those more comfortable describing styles in this way.

Q: What makes Birkman the best for Team Building?

A: Birkman has many unique components. Our “Needs” element helps you understand what you need from coworkers to stay productive and less stressed, plus how you can support them. Birkman explains the applicable “why” behind the fact that 70% of the time, the way we act is not how we want to be treated by others.

Q: How can I incorporate Birkman into my team’s daily routine?

A: Using Birkman creates a memorable language to discuss personality in the workplace. The use of Birkman symbols, colors, and component names crafts a language that can become a part of the fabric of an organizational culture so that you have a non-judgmental way to discuss stylistic differences that can be assets or challenges for the team. We also have a variety of products that you can incorporate into meetings and conversations.

Each Person Changes the Team

In every organization, unique personalities merge to create a dynamic environment that drives morale, engagement, and performance. Personality diversity leads to higher, more holistic performance but also increases the probability of misunderstanding and conflict within the team dynamic.

Connecting teammates on a high-performing team with differing communication and work styles is one of the key challenges that organizations face. Birkman provides the tools to integrate diverse individuals into productive teams that achieve better productivity and success, and have the framework to resolve conflict and become more resilient. Birkman allows for individuals to have a better sense of self-awareness.

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