One of the most powerful levers an organization can pull to accelerate performance is team effectiveness. At Know Your Talents, one of the key deliverables we provide—and that clients consistently leverage—is our KYT Team Impact! workshop experience. KYT Team Impact! is designed to elevate team performance by identifying individual behavioral styles, motivators, and preferences to foster better collaboration and trust. These workshops have been instrumental in building the four pillars our founder Lori Coruccini highlighted in her recent book, Culture Solved: Know Me. Grow Me. Include Me. Inspire Me.
Our Team Impact! workshops are not surface-level team-building exercises. They are structured, data-driven performance interventions rooted in behavioral science and organizational development principles. Utilizing tools such as the PDP® ProScan® behavioral assessment, KYT Team Impact! aligns individual strengths with organizational objectives, reduces friction, improves communication flow, and increases measurable outcomes across productivity, engagement, and satisfaction.
Why Team Impact! Matters More Than Ever
The data confirms the urgency:
- According to Gallup, highly engaged teams show 23% greater profitability and 17% higher productivity compared to disengaged teams.
- Gallup also reports that organizations with high engagement experience 41% lower absenteeism.
- Research from McKinsey & Company indicates that improving communication and collaboration through social technologies can raise productivity by 20–25% in knowledge-based work.
- Research published in Harvard Business Review found that employees who feel their strengths are recognized are significantly more likely to report higher job satisfaction and loyalty.
KYT Team Impact! directly addresses these drivers: communication clarity, strengths alignment, behavioral awareness, and shared accountability.
What Makes KYT Team Impact! Different?
Many team-building workshops focus on activities that temporarily boost morale. KYT Team Impact! focuses on behavioral insight, structured alignment, and performance acceleration.
At the core of the workshop is the PDP® ProScan® behavioral assessment, which provides data-driven insights into four key behavioral dimensions:
- Dominance (taking charge ↔ support)
- Extroversion (persuasion ↔ contemplation)
- Pace (patience ↔ urgency)
- Conformity (caution ↔ independence)
This framework enables teams to understand:
- Why certain communication styles clash
- Why some individuals thrive under pressure while others require predictability
- Why decision-making speed varies across the team
- Why motivation triggers differ from person to person
By making these dynamics explicit rather than implicit, teams shift from assumption-based interaction to evidence-based communication.
Behavioral Insight: The Foundation of Performance
1. Data-Driven Self-Awareness
KYT uses ProScan® assessments to understand what drives employees. This provides a roadmap for growth, leadership development, and improved communication.
Research supports the value of behavioral self-awareness:
- According to Korn Ferry, professionals with high self-awareness are more likely to be high performers and effective leaders.
- Korn Ferry Hay Group also discovered that 92% of leaders who possessed multiple strengths in emotional self-awareness had high-energy, high-performance teams.
- Research consistently links personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness to lower team conflict and stronger collaboration—findings that underpin widely used team assessment frameworks like the ProScan® assessment.
2. Reducing Friction Through Clarity
Unclear expectations and mismatched communication styles are two of the biggest sources of workplace conflict. KYT Team Impact! addresses this directly.
When a high-extroversion leader understands they are overwhelming a high-cautious teammate, communication adjusts. When a high-dominance executive recognizes they are moving faster than the team’s processing capacity, expectations recalibrate.
Friction decreases. Productivity increases.
Workshop Focus: Practical Strategies That Stick
The KYT Team Impact! workshops are designed around application, not theory. Participants leave with:
- A shared behavioral language
- Clear communication frameworks
- Strengths-based task alignment strategies
- Conflict-resolution tools
- Defined accountability systems
Rather than abstract discussions, teams work through real-world scenarios—sales pressure, client conflict, remote collaboration breakdowns, leadership misalignment—and apply behavioral insight in real time.
According to Gallup, employees who use their strengths daily are six times more likely to be engaged at work. KYT Team Impact! embeds strengths awareness directly into workflow design.
Strategic Alignment: Connecting Strengths to Outcomes
A team’s behavioral diversity is not a liability—it is a competitive advantage when aligned correctly.
High-dominance individuals drive urgency and execution.
High-extroversion individuals drive energy and influence.
High-pace (high-patience) individuals drive stability and follow-through.
High-conformity (high-caution) individuals drive risk mitigation and quality control.
The issue arises when these strengths are misaligned with strategic priorities.
KYT Team Impact! helps leaders map behavioral strengths to:
- Organizational goals
- Quarterly objectives
- Project timelines
- Client engagement strategies
When strengths are aligned with outcomes, productivity becomes more predictable and less dependent on personality conflict.
Remote and Hybrid Teams: A Critical Use Case
Remote teams face unique challenges:
- Reduced nonverbal communication cues
- Increased misinterpretation in digital channels
- Decreased spontaneous collaboration
- Potential social isolation
According to Buffer, 23% of remote workers report loneliness as their biggest struggle. Additionally, research from Microsoft’s Work Trend Index found that although 87% of employees report being productive at work, 85% of leaders say hybrid work has made it difficult to feel confident their teams are actually productive—a disconnect that creates misalignment around expectations and communication.
KYT Team Impact! workshops are intentionally designed for both in-person and remote environments. Behavioral awareness becomes even more valuable when teams cannot rely on hallway conversations to repair misunderstandings.
Teams that complete KYT Team Impact! sessions report:
- Greater clarity in digital communication
- Reduced email escalation
- More efficient virtual meetings
- Increased psychological safety
Communication: The Multiplier Effect
Communication breakdown is one of the most expensive hidden costs in organizations.
According to Grammarly’s 2023 State of Business Communication report, conducted with The Harris Poll, 43% of business leaders report that poor communication has lowered their team’s productivity. The exact dollar cost of poor communication is difficult to measure precisely, but what is consistently clear across research is that its effects compound across productivity, engagement, and retention.
KYT Team Impact! addresses communication at the behavioral level:
- How do I communicate urgency to someone who values stability?
- How do I provide feedback to someone highly sensitive to criticism?
- How do I motivate someone driven by achievement versus security?
When communication adapts to the receiver, not just the sender, alignment accelerates.
Productivity Gains Through Behavioral Alignment
Improved communication directly drives productivity.
According to McKinsey, improved collaboration practices can increase productivity by up to 25%. When behavioral differences are understood and leveraged rather than resisted, teams:
- Make decisions faster
- Reduce redundant effort
- Clarify accountability
- Decrease rework
- Improve deadline adherence
Research by Paul J. Zak, published in Harvard Business Review, found that employees at high-trust companies report 50% higher productivity and 76% more engagement than those at low-trust organizations.
Trust is not built through slogans. It is built through understanding.
Employee Engagement and Satisfaction
Engagement is emotional commitment to the organization’s goals. Satisfaction is the perception that the workplace environment supports well-being and growth.
Gallup research shows:
- Engaged teams experience up to 59% lower turnover in low-turnover organizations.
- Highly engaged workplaces see 70% fewer safety incidents.
Behavioral Insight and Culture Development
KYT Team Impact! influences engagement through:
- Recognition of individual strengths
- Increased clarity of role expectations
- Reduced interpersonal stress
- Enhanced sense of belonging
When employees feel understood, they contribute more fully. When they feel misread or misunderstood, disengagement begins quietly.
Developmental Stages: Moving Teams to Peak Performance
Every team operates within a developmental stage. KYT Team Impact! integrates models of team evolution that identify whether a team is:
- Forming
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
(Based on Tuckman’s stages of group development)
High-performing teams are not accidental. They are intentionally developed.
By identifying current stage dynamics and behavioral distribution, KYT provides a roadmap to accelerate progression toward high-performance norms.
High-Stakes Environments: Where Team Impact! Delivers Fast ROI
KYT Team Impact! is particularly effective in environments where:
- Revenue targets are aggressive
- Leadership transitions are occurring
- Mergers or acquisitions have created cultural shifts
- Growth has outpaced communication systems
- Remote teams operate across time zones
In these contexts, misalignment compounds quickly. Behavioral clarity prevents escalation.
Organizations implementing structured team development initiatives report measurable improvements in:
- Revenue growth
- Project completion timelines
- Retention rates
- Employee Net Promoter Scores (eNPS)
Work Smarter, Not Harder
The phrase “work smarter, not harder” is often overused. In the context of Team Impact!, it is operationalized.
Working smarter means:
- Assigning tasks aligned with behavioral strengths
- Communicating in ways that reduce emotional friction
- Clarifying expectations upfront
- Leveraging diversity of thought instead of resisting it
- Building systems that account for natural tendencies
The result is energy optimization. Instead of wasting cognitive and emotional bandwidth on conflict and confusion, teams redirect energy toward execution.
The Measurable Impact of Team Impact
Clients who implement KYT Team Impact! frequently report:
- Improved cross-functional collaboration
- Faster onboarding for new hires
- Increased leadership confidence
- Reduced voluntary turnover
- Higher internal promotion rates
Behavioral alignment becomes part of organizational culture, not a one-time intervention.
A Culture That Sustains Performance
KYT Team Impact! is not merely a workshop—it is a cultural foundation. As referenced in our October 2025 blog last year regarding how AI is changing business faster than most leaders can keep up with, now more than ever, teams need to be high performing at a pace not seen since the internet boom.
When behavioral insight becomes embedded into:
- Hiring decisions
- Leadership development
- Conflict management
- Project planning
- Performance reviews
The organization evolves from reactive to proactive.
High-performing cultures are intentional. They understand their people deeply. They align talent strategically. They communicate with precision.
Conclusion: The Strategic Advantage of Team Impact!
In a marketplace defined by speed, AI integration, remote collaboration, and generational workforce shifts, organizations that understand their people at a behavioral level hold a distinct competitive advantage.
Know Your Talents Team Impact! workshops provide that advantage.
By leveraging data-driven behavioral assessments, structured facilitation, and strategic alignment frameworks, KYT enables teams to:
- Improve communication
- Increase productivity
- Strengthen engagement
- Reduce conflict
- Accelerate performance
Our team is getting a lot of requests for us to facilitate Team Impact! workshops in 2026 because when teams understand themselves, they trust each other more. When they trust each other more, they execute faster. When they execute faster, results compound. Team performance is not accidental; it is engineered.
And that is exactly what KYT Team Impact! is designed to do.
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