You and your team
Your CoDynamics compare your own working preferences with your team's habits.
Alex R.’s CoDynamics.
What matches. What differs.
Matches the team: Processing, Deciding
Differs from the team: Communicating, Executing
Potential tension means a different preference. It is useful context for finding support, not a judgment of suitability or ability to succeed.
Select a dimension to go to its guidance.
Your preferenceInformalInformation is shared organically among team members.
Team behavior you describedOrderedInformation is shared through defined processes and forums.
Your preferenceLogicalInformation is evaluated on its own merits, regardless of source.
Team behavior you describedLogicalInformation is evaluated on its own merits, regardless of source.
Your preferenceAuthoritativeDecisions are driven by direction from team leadership.
Team behavior you describedAuthoritativeDecisions are driven by direction from team leadership.
Your preferenceDeliberatePlans are thorough, closely followed, and regularly updated.
Team behavior you describedSpontaneousLightweight 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 preferenceInformal
Team pattern describedVery strongly Ordered
Your natural preferences tend towards more organic and flexible means of gathering and sharing information than how the team typically behaves
- Ask the team to make it easier for you to engage with the rest of the group by clarifying expectations around structured communications (”What information do we share, when, and how do we do so?”) and by developing guidelines and templates for the team’s most common mechanisms for sharing information
- Look out for situations in which your team is tasked with solving creative problems that require new models, frameworks or concepts; in these moments, your natural tendency towards a more free-flowing, organic approach to information exchange will help you adapt more quickly to the situation at hand
Turn a conversation into a usable handoff
You describe the team’s Communicating style as Ordered; you prefer Informal. If a useful conversation changes someone’s work but the outcome never reaches them, a short recap can connect your conversational approach with the team’s usual channel.
Try this: After your next useful conversation that changes a commitment, add the changed next step to the team’s agreed channel. Tag the affected person and ask if they need anything else.
Look for: The affected person can explain what changed and what they will do next.
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