Team Building

Understand Your Team. Strengthen How You Work Together.

Strong teams don't happen by accident. They are built through understanding: understanding how people communicate, what motivates them, how they approach challenges, and what they need from one another to do their best work.

TTI Success Insights assessments give teams a shared language for understanding individual differences and how those differences affect the way a team works together. Team reports bring individual assessment results together, helping teams see collective strengths, areas of alignment, potential gaps, and opportunities for greater collaboration.

Whether you're building a new team, improving an existing team, or integrating a new employee, TTI provides the insights to help people understand themselves and each other.

What Is a Team Assessment?

Instead of looking only at one person's results, a team report brings those individual insights together to reveal patterns across the group.

This can help teams explore questions such as:

• How do we communicate with one another?
• Where do our team members naturally align?
• Where are our differences creating opportunities or challenges?
• What motivates different members of the team?
• How do we respond to pressure and conflict?
• What strengths does our team have?
• Where might we have development opportunities?
• How can we work together more effectively?

The goal isn't to make everyone work the same way. It's to help people understand the differences that already exist so they can use those differences more effectively.

How TTI Assessments Support Team Building

TTI Success Insights offers five assessment sciences that can provide different perspectives on the people who make up a team.

DISC: Understand How People Behave

DISC measures observable behaviors and provides insight into how people tend to communicate and operate.

For teams, DISC can help members understand differences in communication and behavioral style. It can create a shared language for recognizing why two people may approach the same situation differently.

Teams can use DISC insights to:

• Adapt communication styles
• Understand behavioral differences
• Improve day-to-day interactions
• Recognize how team members prefer to approach work
• Identify potential sources of communication friction
• Build greater awareness of individual behavioral styles

DISC also distinguishes between a person's natural and adapted behavioral styles, providing additional context about how they are responding to their current environment.

12 Driving Forces: Understand What Motivates Your Team

Behavior explains how someone tends to operate. 12 Driving Forces explains why they are driven to do what they do.

Understanding individual motivators can help teams recognize why members may have different priorities, interests, and approaches to the same work.

12 Driving Forces can help teams:

• Understand what energizes different team members
• Recognize differences in priorities
• Connect individual motivations to team goals
• Understand why people may respond differently to the same situation
• Create more meaningful engagement
• Reduce misunderstandings caused by differences in what people value

When team members understand what drives one another, differences that once created frustration can become opportunities for better collaboration.

EQ: Understand Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence influences how people recognize and manage emotions in themselves and others.

TTI's EQ assessment measures five dimensions:

• Self-Awareness
• Self-Regulation
• Motivation
• Social Awareness
• Social Regulation

For teams, EQ insights can support greater awareness of how people respond to pressure, navigate difficult conversations, build relationships, and influence group dynamics.

This can be particularly valuable when teams are working through conflict, change, communication challenges, or other situations where emotional intelligence affects how people work together.

DNA: Understand Team Skills

DNA measures personal skills and provides insight into areas of strength and development.

Teams can use DNA insights to understand the skills their members bring to the group and identify opportunities to strengthen capabilities.

This can help teams:

• Identify individual skill strengths
• Recognize development opportunities
• Understand the capabilities represented across the team
• Identify areas where additional development may be useful
• Create more targeted professional development plans

DNA adds a skills perspective to team conversations, helping teams look beyond behavioral preferences and consider the capabilities that support successful performance.

ACI: Understand Judgment and Perspective

ACI provides insight into how people process information, apply judgment, and approach situations.

Teams don't always disagree because someone is communicating poorly or lacks motivation. Sometimes people are interpreting the same situation differently.

ACI can help teams explore differences in perspective and judgment, creating greater awareness of how people approach information and decisions.

This can support teams as they work through complex problems, evaluate information, and make decisions together.

Team Reports: Turn Individual Insights Into Team Insights

Individual assessments can tell you a great deal about each person. Team reports bring those insights together.

TTI team reports help organizations look at assessment results across a group rather than viewing each individual in isolation.

This allows teams and facilitators to identify patterns such as:

• Where team members have similar behavioral styles
• Where significant differences exist
• What motivators are represented across the group
• Where strengths are concentrated
• Where development opportunities may exist
• How individual differences may influence collaboration

A team report can become a starting point for conversations about how the group works today and how it can work more effectively.

TTI Team Reports

TTI offers several reports that can help organizations understand teams from different perspectives.

Team Report

A Team Report brings individual assessment results together to provide a collective view of the team.

Rather than reviewing each person's results separately, teams can examine patterns across the group and use those insights to create greater understanding and collaboration.

Multi-Respondent Report

The Multi-Respondent Report can help organizations examine assessment data from multiple people together, making it useful when the goal is to understand a larger group or compare patterns across respondents.

Multi-Science Reports

When a team needs a broader view, TTI's multi-science reports can bring multiple assessment sciences together.

This can help teams look at behavior, motivators, emotional intelligence, competencies, and judgment from a more comprehensive perspective.

When Should You Use a Team Assessment?

TTI assessments can support teams at several points throughout the team's development.

Building a New Team

When forming a new team, assessment insights can help members quickly understand one another and establish a foundation for collaboration.

Teams can use the results to discuss:

• Communication preferences
• Behavioral differences
• Motivators
• Individual strengths
• Development opportunities
• How team members can work effectively together

Improving an Existing Team

Even teams that have worked together for years can benefit from greater understanding.

Assessment insights can help teams explore recurring communication challenges, differences in motivation, interpersonal dynamics, and opportunities to improve collaboration.

Adding a New Team Member

A new employee changes the composition of a team.

Assessing the new team member can provide insight into how their behaviors, motivators, skills, and other characteristics may complement the existing group.

The goal isn't to determine whether someone "fits" a team based on a single profile. Instead, assessment insights can help the team understand what the new member brings and how everyone can work together effectively.

Navigating Team Change

Restructuring, new leadership, organizational growth, and changing responsibilities can all affect how a team works together.

TTI assessments can provide a common language for teams navigating those changes and help members understand how differences may influence the transition.

From Team Insight to Team Development

Assessment results are most valuable when teams use them to create meaningful conversations and actions.

The assessment is the starting point. The real value comes from what the team does with the insight.

Team Building Is More Than an Activity

Team building activities can create shared experiences and strengthen relationships. Assessment-based team building adds another layer: data-driven insight into the people making up the team.

An activity might help people get to know one another. TTI assessments can help explain why people work, communicate, and respond differently.

That shared understanding can continue beyond a single team-building event and become part of how the team communicates and collaborates every day.

Why Use TTI for Team Building?

TTI Success Insights brings decades of research and experience to workplace assessment.

Rather than relying on a single perspective, TTI offers multiple assessment sciences that organizations can use individually or together depending on the needs of the team.

TTI's approach can help organizations:

• Create a shared language for understanding people
• Build awareness of individual differences
• Strengthen communication
• Understand team motivators
• Identify strengths and development opportunities
• Improve collaboration
• Support team development
• Navigate team changes
• Connect individual insights to organizational goals

TTI also provides reports and tools designed to help practitioners turn individual assessment results into useful team-level insights.

A Multi-Science Approach to Team Building

No single assessment can explain everything about a person or a team.

DISC can help explain behavioral style. 12 Driving Forces can reveal what motivates people. EQ provides insight into emotional intelligence. DNA examines personal skills. ACI provides insight into judgment and perspective.

When appropriate, these sciences can be combined to create a more comprehensive picture of the team.

The right combination depends on the question you're trying to answer.

• Need to improve communication? DISC may provide valuable insight.
• Trying to understand differences in engagement or priorities? 12 Driving Forces can add another perspective.
• Working through interpersonal challenges? EQ can provide insight into emotional intelligence.
• Looking at team capabilities and development? DNA can help identify skills and development opportunities.
• Navigating complex decisions or differences in perspective? ACI can add insight into judgment.
• Need a broader picture? A multi-science approach can bring multiple perspectives together.

Team Building Assessment FAQs

What is a team building assessment?

A team building assessment uses individual assessment results to help a group understand its collective behaviors, motivators, emotional intelligence, skills, or judgment. TTI team reports bring individual results together to help teams identify patterns, differences, strengths, and development opportunities.

What is the purpose of a team assessment?

The purpose of a team assessment is to increase understanding of how team members differ and how those differences can affect communication, collaboration, and the way work gets done. Assessment insights provide a starting point for conversations and team development.

What does a TTI team report show?

A TTI team report brings individual assessment results together to provide insight into the team as a whole. Depending on the assessment used, it can help reveal behavioral patterns, motivators, emotional intelligence, skills, or other individual characteristics represented across the team.

What TTI assessment is best for team building?

The right assessment depends on the team's needs. DISC can provide insight into behavioral and communication styles, 12 Driving Forces can reveal motivators, EQ measures emotional intelligence, DNA measures personal skills, and ACI provides insight into judgment and perspective. Multiple sciences can also be combined when a broader view is needed.

Can you use TTI assessments for a newly formed team?

Yes. TTI assessments can help newly formed teams establish a shared language for understanding individual differences and create a foundation for collaboration.

Can TTI assessments help an existing team?

Yes. Existing teams can use assessment insights to better understand communication styles, motivators, emotional intelligence, skills, and other differences that influence how people work together.

Can TTI assessments be used when adding a new team member?

Yes. Assessing a new team member can help an existing team understand what the person brings to the group and how their individual characteristics may interact with those of the current team.

Are team assessments the same as team building activities?

No. A team building activity creates a shared experience, while an assessment provides structured insight into the people who make up the team. Both can play a role in team development.

Can team reports be used for professional development?

Yes. Team reports can help identify strengths and development opportunities across a group. Individual assessment results can then be used to support more targeted professional development.

Can multiple TTI assessments be used together?

Yes. TTI's multi-science approach allows organizations to combine assessment sciences when they need a broader understanding of their people and teams.