You and your team
Your CoDynamics compare your own working preferences with your team's habits.
Jeff B.’s CoDynamics.
What matches. What differs.
Matches the team: Processing, Deciding, Executing
Differs from the team: Communicating
Potential tension means a different preference. It is useful context for finding support, not a judgment of suitability or ability to succeed.
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Your preferenceInformalInformation is shared organically among team members.
Team behaviorOrderedInformation is shared through defined processes and forums.
Your preferenceLogicalInformation is evaluated on its own merits, regardless of source.
Team behaviorLogicalInformation is evaluated on its own merits, regardless of source.
Your preferenceAuthoritativeDecisions are driven by direction from team leadership.
Team behaviorAuthoritativeDecisions are driven by direction from team leadership.
Your preferenceSpontaneousLightweight plans favor agility and adaptability.
Team behaviorSpontaneousLightweight plans favor agility and adaptability.
How to read your fit
Natural fit means your preferences align with the team's approach. These situations may feel more comfortable.
Potential tension means you prefer a different approach. Recognizing these situations helps you prepare and ask for support.
Your preferenceLogical
Team patternVery strongly Logical
You instinctively rely on rigorous reasoning in advancing your perspectives in a way that is natural to your team
- Show more relationship-driven teammates several examples of analysis the team has used well. Explain what made each useful: the evidence, reasoning, and level of detail the team expected. These examples give them a practical way to contribute to the team’s discussions.
- If there are specific experts on the team who have context, knowledge or abilities that uniquely fit the information at hand, it may be both faster and more effective to rely on their judgment, rather than applying the team’s typical approach of building a broadly understood analytical framework to guide the interpretation
Use the evidence already at hand
Your team’s Processing style is Logical; you prefer Logical. If two options are being discussed and relevant evidence is already available, the team’s analytical approach can help make the choice concrete.
Try this: In the next decision discussion, ask which available evidence separates the options. Use it to narrow the choice, and name any uncertainty that still matters.
Look for: The discussion identifies a specific reason to prefer an option, or a specific question still unanswered.
Explore this practiceYour preferences as a leader
Your own preferences shape what feels natural to you as a leader. Where you fit, watch for blind spots you share with the team and bring in perspectives you might both overlook. Where you differ, use that perspective to help the team flex.
Turn the example into your result
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