Group Styles Inventory™

Team Development
Like individuals, work groups have their own personalities or interaction styles. These
styles are reflected in the way group members approach a particular task and work together.
Groups can be effective and constructive, or they can be ineffective and defensive.

Used after a real or a simulated exercise the Group Styles Inventory (GSI) assesses how the
group worked together. Startling correlations have been discovered between the GSI results
and the quality of the group’s solutions. Use the Participant Guide to pinpoint dominant
styles and develop improvement strategies.

Group Styles Inventory™

Group Styles Inventory kit includes …

❖ Group Styles Inventory – This self-scoring inventory consists of 72 items with

a five point response option.
❖ Participant Guide – Includes style interpretations, improvement suggestions
and an action plan for committing to changes.
What GSI measures:
Constructive Teams 22505 Group Styles Inventory Kit ....................................$20.00
❖ work towards
a consensus GSI Scoring Supplement ........................................................$4.00
❖ generate superior
decisions GSI Facilitator Materials
❖ enjoy high degrees
of satisfaction General Certification Program
❖ improve group and
individual effectiveness. This recommended three-day program will teach you how to de-brief the LSI, STYLUS,
GSI and OCI. You will receive leader’s guides and other facilitation aids as part of your fee.
Please refer to page 25 for more information.
Passive Defensive
Teams 44102 ..........................................................................................$1495.00

❖ less than optimal GSI Leader’s Guide

solutions
❖ lack of individual This guide assists facilitators in understanding the twelve group styles, interpreting group
initiative
results and how to combine the GSI with a simulation to create a dynamic
❖ low levels of teambuilding workshop.
satisfaction
22507 ........................................................................................$95.00
❖ feelings of
frustration GSI PowerPoint® Presentations

Aggresive Defensive A “must” A-V aid for every Group Styles debriefing.
Teams 22513 ........................................................................................$150.00
❖ individual agendas Combine LSI, GSI and OCI PowerPoint® presentations:
vs. group goals 99911 ........................................................................................$300.00
❖ marginal quality
decisions Generic Circumplex Flipchart (bilingual - 25 per pad)
❖ limited commitment Allow groups to draw their profiles to stimulate conversation.
to the group 23613 ................................................................................$50.00
❖ impersonal, tension-
ridden process

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Team Development

Acumen Team WorkStyles™

Acumen Team WorkStyles (TWS) is a multi-rater feedback
tool for assessing and developing individual teambuilding skills
for members of intact teams. The computer-generated report
will provide individual team members with valuable feedback
on the way they approach tasks and interact with others. By
using TWS, you can effectively improve the collaboration and
synergy of your teams.

Derived from the Life Styles Inventory, TWS uses 94 survey items and provides team
members with feedback along the 12 circumplex styles.

Acumen Team WorkStyles: Self Report

The TWS Self Kit includes …

❖ Paper or online, 94-item inventory

❖ Processing and printing of 15-page Self Report
❖ Team WorkStyles workbook

32111 TWS Self Report ..............................................................$160.00

Acumen Team WorkStyles: 360° Feedback

The TWS Others Kit includes …

❖ Paper or online, 94-item inventories (8 paper inventories or up to

30 online inventories.)
❖ Processing and printing of 24-page report, including a 3-page self profile.
❖ Team WorkStyles workbook

32113 TWS 360° Report. ..................................................$260.00

TWS Related Products

TWS Group Report

Pinpoint each team’s strengths and weaknesses with a group report. This
will encourage group members to concentrate on improving common areas.

32115 TWS Group Report..........................................................$60.00

32117 TWS Workbook ..............................................................$17.00

32119 TWS Leader’s Guide ........................................................$215.00

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 Will Your Teams Survive?
The importance of teamwork and group decision making cannot be understated. This begs the question
– how do your teams stack up? And, will they survive? Or will they flounder or survive?

Don’t wait for fate to take its course. Start now to train your teams how to work together to achieve
common goals. Human Synergistics survival simulations never fail to entertain and develop good
teambuilding skills.

Desert Survival Situation™

After their plane crashes in the desert, participants must rank 15 items in order to secure
the survival of their team. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.

12401 Participant Booklet ......................................................$7.50

12403 Leader’s Guide ..............................................................$35.00
12405/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ..........................$189.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..........................$7.50

12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ................................$25.00

Desert Survival II Situation™

This more complex Desert II requires participants to identify problems to overcome,
survival strategies, item priorities and item uses. Time required: 2.5 to 3.5 hours.
Improve
12411 Participant Booklet ......................................................$7.50 Group Decision
12413 Leader’s Guide ..............................................................$35.00 making
12415/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ..........................$189.00 effectiveness
with GSI
(pg. 11)
92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..........................$7.50
12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ................................$25.00

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 Can Your Teams Achieve Synergy?
Synergy occurs when the group’s results are superior to every individual’s results. Approximately 25% of all
teams reach this goal. Those teams that do, experience healthy working relationships and experience long-
term success.

DON’T BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD! Teach your teams how to achieve synergy.

Subarctic Survival Situation™

After their plane crashes in the Canadian north, participants must rank 15 items in order to
secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.

12421 Participant Booklet ................................................................$7.50

12423 Leader’s Guide ........................................................................$35.00
12425/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD)....................................$189.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................................$7.50

12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................................$25.00

Cascades Survival Situation™

After their helicopter crashes in the Rocky Mountains during a snow storm, participants must
rank 12 items in order to secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1 to 1.5 hours.

12431 Participant Booklet ......................................................$7.50

12433 Leader’s Guide ..............................................................$35.00
12435/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ..........................$189.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..........................$7.50

12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ................................$25.00

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 Can Your Team Stand the Heat?
Time pressures. Crises. Rush orders. Unforeseeable problems. These are all real-world problems that teams
face almost every day. Teams that are well-trained on how to work together stand a much better chance of
dealing with these challenges – even thriving on them.

Practice makes perfect!

Bushfire Survival Situation™

While on vacation in Australia, your team realizes it’s in the path of an on-coming bushfire.
Rank 12 items to determine your chances of survival. Time required: 1.5 to 2 hours.
Improve
32421 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$7.50
32423 Leader’s Guide ..................................................................$35.00
Individual team
32405/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ............................$189.00 building skills
with TWS
92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..............................$7.50 (pg. 12)
12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ....................................$25.00

Jungle Survival Situation™

Your small plane crashes in the Panamanian jungle. You salvage 15 items that might
aid your survival. Rank them to see if you survive. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.

92401 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$7.50

92403 Leader’s Guide ..................................................................$35.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..............................$7.50

12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ....................................$25.00

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 Will Your Teams Sink or Swim?
Whether your groups are ad hoc or intact teams, don’t “throw them to the sharks” and see if they
will sink or swim. Take control of their destiny by providing sound training and development.

Remember: Experience is the best teacher – but the tuition is very high. (So use a simulation!)

Reef Survival Situation™

A yacht excursion is threatened as the vessel strikes a coral reef in the South Pacific.
Prioritize the 12 items you have salvaged. Time required: 1.5 to 2 hours.
32411 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.50
32413 Leader’s Guide ........................................................$35.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.50

12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00

Sea Survival Situation™

Your sailing vessel sinks in the Caribbean Sea. You and your shipmates must prioritize
strategy options and then rank the 15 salvaged items. Time required 2 – 3 hours.
92411 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.50
92413 Leader’s Guide ........................................................$35.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.50

12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00

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 Do Your Teams Need a Shake-up?
Has the performance of your teams become stale and lackluster? Are their solutions to problems
conventional and lack creativity? It might be time for a shake up. Use Human Synergistics simulations
to create a training program guaranteed to revitalize your teams.

Help your teams to thrive – not just survive.

Tsunami Survival Situation™

Your group is enjoying a beach party on the coast in Chile, when you receive warning that a
tsunami is approaching. You have 8 items to rank. Time required: 1 to 2 hours.
32431 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.50
32433 Leader’s Guide ........................................................$35.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.50

12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00

Earthquake Survival Situation™

You are working late in the basement of a 10-story office building when a major earthquake hits.
Sequence 12 action steps to survive. Time required: 1 to 2 hours.

92431 Participant Booklet ................................................$7.50

92433 Leader’s Guide ........................................................$35.00

92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................$7.50

12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................$25.00

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 Leadership Simulations
Improve teambuilding and group decision making in your management teams and improve their leadership
skills at the same time. Use these simulations to “kick-off” your workshops or as culminating, “show-us-what
-you’ve-learned” exercise. Either way, these simulations will become the highlight of your meeting.

Creatively improve the learned knowledge, skills and attitudes in your leadership workshops.

Coach™
You have just accepted an invitation to coach a team that has lost five of their first six games in the
current season. Identify the most appropriate approach, goals, selection strategies, training methods,
and team talk objectives from 54 possibilities. Time required: 2.5 - 4 hours.
32421 Participant Booklet ................................................$34.00
32423 Leader’s Guide ........................................................$49.00

Turnaround™
You are a general manager in a large company that has just reassigned you to its failing blue jeans
manufacturing plant. Develop a four-part plan for improving the plant, based on your review of the
plant’s culture, production and financial reports. Time required: 4 – 10 hours.
12481 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$34.00
12483 Leader’s Guide ..................................................................$60.00

Cultural Change Situation™

Your team must present improvement plans for a hypothetical organization. Your analysis is based
on profiles produced by the Organizational Culture Inventory™ and the Organizational Effectiveness
Inventory™.
22411 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$15.00
22413 Leader’s Guide ..................................................................$37.50
22415 PowerPoint® Show of the 7 sets of profiles ....................$75.00
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 The Business Simulation Series

Team Development
The simulations in our Business series provide the “how-to” knowledge your teams need to tackle common,
yet demanding business problems and situations with expertise and confidence. At the same time, they
strengthen the skills and behaviours your teams need to effectively and efficiently solve problems and
make decisions.

Participant Booklet ....................................................................$7.50

Leader’s Guide ............................................................................$35.00

Simulation Flipchart ..................................................................$25.00

Business Simulation Observer’s Guide ........................................$7.50

Simulation The Situation The Challenge Time Req.

Project Your team has been assigned Sequence 20 activities in 1.5 - 2.5
Planning responsibility for designing a plan the order they should be hours
Situation™ for managing a secret project. followed in managing the
project.

Meeting Increasing turnover rates in most of Sequence 20 action steps in 2 - 3 hours

Effectiveness your stores requires that you call a the order they should be fol-
Situation™ meeting to discuss the problem. lowed to maximize the effec-
tiveness of the meeting.

Customer A customer approaches you with a Sequence 18 action steps in 1.5 - 2.5
Complaint complaint. the order they should be car- hours
Situation™ ried out to maximize service
effectiveness.

Envisioning a A recent survey indicates that your Envision a culture for quality 2.5 - 3.5
Culture for store rates “average” in service quality for your store by ranking the hours
Quality™ and suggests your problem may be your impact of 24 behavioural
store’s corporate culture. norms on service quality.

Training Tip
Build a dynamic, highly effective one-day
Teambuilding workshop with:
1. Survival Simulation
2. Group Styles Inventory
3. Team strategy session
4. Business Simulation (with Observers)
5. Observers Feedback

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Team Development
The Challenge Series of Simulations
The Challenge Series is a collection of dynamic team exercises that focus on improving knowledge and skills
in a variety of complex areas. Although the topics addressed by the simulations are appropriate for a wide
variety of audiences, they are particularly relevant to those who are – or who aspire to move into – higher-
level positions.

Participant Booklet ………………………………………………….. $7.50

Leader’s Guide ……………………………………………………….$40.00

Simulation The Situation The Challenge Time Req.

Organizational Concerns about the stagnating Sequence 17 activities in 1.5 - 3
Change growth of a home health care supplies order of implementation hours
Challenge™ manufacturer require that you outline to accomplish organizational
a change process for revitalizing the change.
company.
Critical Thinking You work for a growing manufacturer Develop creative and 1.5 - 3
Challenge™ of high-quality plastic parts and are a workable solutions to five hours
member of one of its continuous problems – all of which
improvement teams. are difficult to solve using
traditional approaches.
Ethical Decision You are a member of your hospital’s Rank 10 research practices
Challenge™ Institutional Review Board, which is in order of their relative 1.5 - 3
responsible for evaluating research permissibility or hours
proposals involving human subjects. acceptability.
Constructive You serve on your organization’s Sequence 17 negotiation 1.5 - 3
Negotiations committee responsible for negotiating activities in order of hours
Challenge™ agreements and contracts with implementation.
prospective partners.

Strategic Planning You are the manager of a business Sequence 18 critical strategic 1.5 - 3
Challenge™ unit and must develop a strategic plan planning activities to achieve hours
that is consistent with the mission and a set of integrated plans.
philosophy of the organization.

Performance You are responsible for developing Sequence 20 performance

new performance management management activities to 1.5 - 3
Management
guidelines and procedures that improve performance. hours
Challenge™
will be implemented throughout
the organization.

Project You are a project manager and Sequence 24 typical project

Management must outline a standard process management activities to 2–4
Challenge™ for managing projects within your maximize the effectiveness hours
organization. of the project management
process.

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