Good collaboration is strengthened by knowing each other’s preferences and work behaviors
When it comes to keeping up in a demanding, competitive and constantly evolving market, companies and organizations need to be able to fully utilize and leverage the skills and qualifications of their employees. That’s why effective teamwork and strong collaboration are essential. Because when you’re able to combine and leverage each other’s strengths and differences, you have a much greater chance of success.
One of the prerequisites for good collaboration is understanding, accepting and appreciating that people are different with different professional and personal skills – and that these differences are a resource that can and should be utilized. Knowing each other’s preferences and work behaviors makes for good collaboration.
One solution for the entire employee journey
If the PTB6 personal profile has already been completed at the time of hire, the profile can easily be converted into a team profile at no additional cost. The team’s profiles are combined into a single overview, and everyone will recognize their own profiles from before. No one has to start from scratch. This way, everyone saves both time and resources.
Psychological Security
Turn Differences into a Strength for the Team
Different personality profiles can provide the team with multiple perspectives and stronger solutions when there is also room to contribute, challenge, and disagree.
PeopleTools’ psychological safety report links the team’s personality profiles to the ways in which members naturally contribute to and require a sense of safety in their collaboration.
- See both each individual’s contribution and the team’s overall dynamics
- Develop a common language for what strengthens or challenges a sense of security
- Turn insights into action with ready-made workshop programs
The Five Characteristics of a High-Performance Team
Strengthen the foundation for collaboration and shared results.
How does the team measure up in terms of trust, constructive conflict, commitment, accountability, and a focus on shared results?
PeopleTools links the individual profiles to Patrick Lencioni’s five areas and provides the team with a concrete starting point for understanding and developing their collaboration.
- See where the team is strongest and where there is the most room for improvement
- Gain insight into both the team’s overall patterns and each individual’s contribution to trust, constructive conflict, commitment, accountability, and shared results
- Turn insights into action with ready-made workshop programs
Is it worth using team profiles?
Research shows that targeted team development can significantly improve both collaboration and performance. Meta-analyses find moderate to large effects from teamwork training. This supports setting aside time for the ongoing development of collaboration. As a practical rule of thumb, for example, a few days of intensive training when the group is first formed, followed by regular, shorter follow-ups, can be an effective model.
Learn more about our tools
PeopleTools DISC
(Link coming soon)
Workshop Materials (Link coming soon)
Dimensions of the draft or typology?
At PeopleTools, you can approach team development in two ways. One approach goes into depth, while the other gets straight to the point. Which one works best depends on your team and the task at hand.
Traits are the nuanced language. Six fundamental dimensions paint a clear picture of each individual, with room for all the nuances in between. Choose this track when the team wants to gain a deeper understanding of itself, and when “both-and” is a better answer than “either-or.” Read more about trait dimensions here.
Typology is the quick, common language. Four recognizable profile types and 16 facets to add nuance to the picture give the team words that everyone can remember tomorrow and use at the Tuesday meeting. Choose this track when you need to get started quickly, and when lively, everyday language carries more weight than the details. DISC profil will be released end October 2026.
Team roles provide a framework for assigning roles, responsibilities, and expectations, and can naturally build upon work with both trait dimensions and typology. A team is like a card game: Eight roles need to be filled, but the cards are rarely distributed evenly. By working with the roles, the cards are laid out openly on the table – who naturally takes on which role, where are the duplicates, and where are the gaps. Read more about team roles here.
Fundamental6 (drawing dimensions) | DiSC (typology) | |
Strength | Nuance and precision: six scales, cross-correlations, making it difficult to label anyone | Recognition and speed: you can learn the model in 20 minutes and remember it after lunch |
Risk | May seem abstract or tedious if time is limited or the culture is practical | Things can get out of hand with labels and color coding if the facets aren’t kept up to date |
Suitable for | Mature teams, leadership groups, long-term development programs, analytical cultures | New teams, short projects, practical work cultures, division of roles and tasks |
Requires | Time for deep reflection and a facilitator who can navigate six dimensions | A Consistent Antidote to Boxed Thinking |
“We now have a tool that provides both a broad overview and in-depth insight without oversimplifying things.”
Are you ready for certification?
To use PeopleTools Fundamental6, you must be certified in PeopleTools’ Profile Tools. With a single certification, you gain access to all of PeopleTools’ Profile Tools.
We regularly have certifications in both Jutland and Zealand, where we prepare you to use the profile in practice.