3 Insights about YOU (and your team)

Conflict can rip a team apart, skyrocketing resentment against management or even pitting co-workers against each other. But office conflicts will calm down, or even dissolve entirely, once people understand each other’s different Advantages. Once you know someone’s Advantages, you can see past the exterior and understand what’s really going on.

Each Advantage is like a different “language.”

For instance, Alert is the language of details, Mystique is the language of listening, and Innovation is the language of creativity. When you understand what languages your team members are speaking, you can better understand why discord is happening in the first place.

Which Advantages do your team members or employees use when they communicate?

A diverse mix of Advantages can provide balance for a team.

Rather than forcing your team members to change, help them become more of who they already are. Once you know which Advantages your team uses, you can help each person succeed by dialing up their existing traits. Rather than training people to follow a formula (and trying to force-fit them into a mold), you can support them in adding value in the way that is most effective and natural for them.Every Advantage has an important role within an organization.

As an employer you should be striving to build inclusive and equitable teams. When you understand the Advantages used by your existing team members and potential hires, you will be on your way to building a team with a balanced and healthy interplay of perspectives.

Which Advantages do your team members use? Mostly Innovation (creative new ideas) or Mystique (strategic analysis)? If you want to find out for sure, have them take the Fascinate test today.

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Sally Hogshead

Sally skyrocketed to the top of the advertising world in her early 20s, fascinating millions of consumers for clients such as MINI Cooper and Coca-Cola. Since then, she’s published two New York Times bestsellers on the science of fascination, and is one of only 172 living members in the Speaker Hall of Fame. Over a million professionals have taken the Fascination Advantage® personality test to discover how others perceive their communication.

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