Team Building / Group Dynamics / Communication
Developing leaders and teams to achieve, collaborate, and thrive together
Our group and team building solutions develop constructive interaction styles that lead to psychological safety, engagement, team synergy, innovation and high performance! If you are looking for a customized program to bring a new team together, advance your current team dynamics, or sort out some really difficult group dynamics, we have the solution for you. Start with one of our customized team building programs today!
Why do some groups perform better than others? What kinds of behaviours tend to characterize effective teams? And - perhaps most importantly - how can group members improve the way they work together to maximize the results of their efforts? Team building and helping teams manage and strengthen their group dynamics has been at the forefront of our work since 1992 - we have the in-depth experience to help. Our team building consultants are all skilled facilitators who can help advance psychologically safe environments - helping your team in understanding the building blocks of forging real connections and reinforcing the norms that are most critical for putting your group on a path to become a high-performing teams.
Building High Performance Teams - GSI Groups Styles Inventory (Human Synergistics)
The Group Styles Inventory™ (GSI) from Human Synergistics is a research-based tool that measures how teams think, interact, and solve problems together. By capturing members’ perceptions during real group tasks, the GSI highlights constructive, passive, or aggressive styles at play—helping teams improve collaboration, decision-making, and performance through greater awareness and more effective group dynamics.
How the GSI Group Style Workshop Works
The GSI Group Styles is designed for both temporary and permanent groups that are responsible for solving problems and making decisions. It can be completed by team members after they have solved a problem (to identify the behaviours that facilitated or inhibited their performance) or mid-way through solving a problem (to identify and practice more effective ways of interacting with one another and approaching the problem).
The use of the GSI involves four major steps:
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The group frames and works through a real-life problem impacting the organization.
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Individual group members then respond to 72 statements describing the styles exhibited by the group while solving the problem plus a few questions focusing on team effectiveness, solution acceptance, solution quality, and team synergy. This takes about 15 minutes.
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The team members then score their own surveys and profile their individual results on the Human Synergistics Circumplex to provide a picture of their own perceptions of the group and the effective of the groups working styles. This takes 10 to 15 minutes.
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The descriptions of members are combined to generate an aggregated profile displaying the group’s styles and a bar chart summarizing their collective assessments of performance.
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The data can also be collected and processed electronically. The GSI Leader's Guide and Workshops provide information on developmental activities to help teams use the insights and Constructively change the way members think, behave, and interact.
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The GSI surveys are available online and on almost any digital device, as well as in hard copy.
The benefits for you and your organization
The GSI Group Styles Inventory is an excellent workshop for helping teams and groups solve problems and advance opportunities more effectively. It’s particularly valuable for team development initiatives.
Fixing Dysfunctional Teams - A Team Effectiveness Intervention Program
Unite leadership team members on a powerful journey to move out of dysfunction, increase personal effectiveness, achieve team results, strengthen the psychological safety within the group that shape highly constructive teams. This program includes self and optional 360° leadership feedback and other group assessment tools to strengthen personal styles, leadership and team effectiveness strategies, and how to drive high performance. The Team Effectiveness program consists of a five-phase journey designed to empower participants to learn new strategies, inspire others, model desired behaviours, and develop the next level of leaders and their leadership team. Confidential needs assessment, group assessments and pre / post-work is often required to help us - help you get this right.
The benefits for your organization
An investment in our Team Excellence Intervention Program is powerful for helping groups build trust, manage diversity, build open communication processes, strengthen team norms and advance goals more effectively. It’s particularly valuable for team development initiatives, such as:
- measuring and monitoring team performance.
- creating a team environment that encourages innovation and idea-sharing.
- sharpening team members’ analytical and problem solving skills developing consensus-based decision making.
- achieving synergy and higher quality and acceptance of group decisions.
Make the Team Excellence Intervention Program be part of your drive for change. An experienced Peak Experiences associate can help you assess and create the conditions to advance, implement and maintain the key principles for building a high performance. If you would like to know more about our Team Excellence program or any of our customized team building workshops, please get in touch and we will be happy to assist you.
LSI Conflict Resolution Workshop
Differences of opinion are an inevitable part of organizational relationships, but while constructive differing is productive, out-and-out conflict is not. Individual thinking and behavior can help or hinder the way members of your organization handle conflicts, solve problems, and negotiate. Does your team handle conflict constructively? LSI Conflict paints a picture of conflict styles and helps build Constructive thinking strategies for effective conflict resolution.
What does LSI Conflict do? LSI Conflict is a feedback tool that: uses a self-assessment to help participants gain a better understanding of their thinking styles and provides a visual representation of their strongest and weakest styles. provides a framework through which they can understand different conflict styles and their impact on conflict situations. equips participants with an action plan they can use to specify and commit to behavior changes to develop more Constructive conflict styles.
What does LSI Conflict offer you? Appropriate for all members of an organization, LSI Conflict can be used to: promote awareness of different conflict styles help individuals deal with conflict in a more collaborative way improve team performance and effectiveness through constructive communication enhance cooperation and integrative problem-solving throughout the organization increase the effectiveness of conflict resolution to build a healthier culture.
The inventory takes 20 to 30 minutes to complete and about 10 minutes to self-score, and the results are plotted on a normed Circumplex to provide participants with immediate feedback. If you would like to know more about LSI Conflict, or any of our assessments, please get in touch and we will be happy to assist you.
DISC Personality Profile + Effective Communications Workshop
Discover what drives you with a DISC profile.
Self-awareness is the catalyst for growth. When you understand the patterns behind your decisions - your motivators, stressors, and default behaviours - you can replace guesswork with intentional action. A DISC profile makes those drivers visible, highlighting the habits that accelerate your success and the blind spots that quietly hold you back. What you’ll get: a clear, practical snapshot of your dominant DISC style and how it shows up under pressure; a map of motivators and derailers; and targeted strategies you can use immediately to set priorities, lead conversations, and build resilient habits that align with your values. Whether you’re a first-time manager or a seasoned executive, DISC gives you a common language to understand yourself- and to work better with others.
Developed by psychologist William Moulton Marston, the DISC assessment examines how an individual ranks in the four primary personality types – dominance, influence, steadiness and conscientiousness.
Everyone has these four characteristics, but the strength of each varies depending on the person. None of the DISC personality traits are inherently positive or negative. The test and results are nonjudgmental and help those who take it respond to conflict, resolve problems and discover what lies behind their common habits or working styles. More than two million people have taken the 15-minute DISC assessment to better understand their personality type and behavioral style. The test is designed for both individuals who want to identify and maximize their strengths and motivators, and organizations that want integrate high-performance teams.
Why it matters for teams:
Shared DISC insights reduce friction, speed decisions, and create a respectful shorthand for how people prefer to problem-solve, share ideas, and be more effective communicators.
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With D styles: be concise, lead with the outcome, offer options and decision rights.
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With I styles: connect to purpose, invite ideas, use brief check-ins to sustain momentum.
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With S styles: slow the pace, show the plan, emphasize support and next steps.
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With C styles: provide context and data, clarify criteria, leave time for review.