Building Teams with Influence

The Gautrey Influence Profile is great to use with other people too. The more people who become aware of their own preferences and can therefore start to adapt, the better. If you get your team sharing you can have fun while building awareness and learning to work more effectively together. As an added bonus, you will all be able to work more effectively as a team as you move forward your shared goals.

Fun on the Big Scale

"Just wanted to let you know how well the Influence Profile worked for a large group. There were over 25 in the group, all of whom had completed the Influence Profile before the event. I held back their reports until the day so I could introduce it properly. I took them through all of the usual exercises to start off, and they we got into style spotting. They had such a great time working out who preferred which style. Naturally, some people were renowned for their lack of tact and diplomacy! The session had to close after two hours, but what was incredible, was that as soon as the course was over, they got into huddles discussing more about their reports! Fantastic."

Cultural Differences

"My client asked me to work on helping his team to appreciate their cultural differences. I decided to use the Influence Profile because it could highlight these differences, whilst also getting some traction on them becoming more influential, both as individuals and as a group. Suffice to say it worked extremely well and I've been invited back to do a follow-up in more detail."

360° Feedback

"While coaching several senior directors, I had the problem that they were denying the 360° feedback they had been given. I decided to use the Influence Profile to help to unblock their resistance and, I must say, the result exceeded my expectations. The Influence Profile replicated their feedback, yet was generated with only their answers. Frankly, they had nowhere else to go but to accept that they needed to work on their behaviour towards others!"

Warm-Up Idea

"Thought I'd let you know that I did something a little different at the start of my last Influence Profile session. I had a group of 12, none of whom knew each other very well. To help them to get their minds around the different dimensions, instead of merely talking them through each, I thought it would be fun to give them the handout describing the behaviours — then I asked them to position themselves along the back wall based on where they thought they would score. Not only did this help them to understand the dimensions, it also helped them to get to know each other better — they also had quite a few laughs too!"

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