Team Communication Inventory

Description

Foster Effective Team Communication

Team meetings play a crucial role in making decisions, improving quality, and addressing work-related issues. For your meetings to be productive and engaging, communication is essential. Your team needs to engage in a healthy team discussion.

 

Improve the overall quality of your team discussions and meetings with Team Communication Inventory, a training tool designed to identify the tendencies and roles team members typically exhibit during team interactions.

This training tool utilizes a scientific approach to analyze each team member’s communication style and tendencies, leading to better decision making, improved quality, and effective problem solving. Ensure that your team discussions are productive and engaged every time.

How It Works

Using specific discussions, respondents rate themselves on the use of seven task roles and seven maintenance roles. Individuals then gain additional insight into their behavior. Finally, action plans help teams make specific plans for improvement as individuals and as a group.

The participant booklet includes pressure-sensitive scoring and perforated response cards to facilitate the feedback process. In addition to administrative guidelines and theoretical background, the Facilitator Guide includes tips on strengthening task and maintenance roles.

Group Maintenance Roles:

• Encourager
• Gatekeeper
• Compromiser
• Harmonizer
• Energizer
• Processor
• Standard
• Setter

Group Task Roles:

• Initiator
• Information giver
• Information seeker
• Challenger
• Coordinator
• Evaluator
• Completer

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to do the following:

• Understand the major components of communication
• Identify the characteristics of successful team communication
• Evaluate one’s communication strengths and weaknesses
• Develop a personal action plan for improving and applying communication skills
• Learn how to effectively communicate and build a successful team

Uses and Applications

Team Communication Inventory is designed to help groups and teams improve their ability to have meaningful discussions, solve problems, and make decisions. Team Communication Inventory provides a simple vehicle for analyzing the communication dynamics of any group discussion, problem-solving session, or training exercise.

Note: Team Communication Inventory is an excellent follow-up to any HRDQ Survival Simulation.

What to Order

Print Assessment 5-Pack

Order one pack for up to five participants. The print assessment contains an assessment, a pressure-sensitive response form, interpretive information, and action-planning materials.

QuickStart Train-the-Trainer (QST)

QST is a convenient, one-hour virtual coaching session for first-time facilitators of this product. You’ll receive personalized, one-on-one coaching with a subject matter expert who will get you up to speed quickly and accurately so you can step into the onsite with confidence. We’ll answer all your questions about the facilitation of the product. And you can add additional coaching hours as needed. Your coaching session can be provided by telephone or video call and at a time of your choosing.

Facilitators will also receive an HRDQ Certificate of Completion for completing the QuickStart session.

About the Author

Rollin Glaser, Ed.D., is an accomplished trainer, consultant, and expert in the field of adult learning, and is also the co-founder and former chief executive officer of HRDQ. He holds several degrees, including a BS from Northwestern University and an M.Ed. from Northeastern University, as well as an MA and Ed.D. from Columbia University. Mr. Glaser is also the author of Personnel Management for Retailers and co-author of The Management of Training and Managing by Design.