Unlock Collaborative Potential with Emergenetics’ Workplace & Team Development Programs for Businesses

The future of work belongs to the companies that invest in their people. While many organizations are focused on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), this technology is actually making soft skills more important, not less. The World Economic Forum expects the following capabilities to be essential in the future of work:

• Analytical thinking and innovation
• Active learning and learning strategies
• Complex problem-solving
• Critical thinking and analysis
• Creativity, originality and initiative
• Leadership and social influence
• Technology use, monitoring and control
• Technology design and programming
• Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility
• Reasoning, problem solving and ideation

It’s clear that professional development programs need to empower teams and individual contributors with a range of people skills to drive organizational success.

Additionally, executives and managers are being challenged to work differently as they adapt to trends in mass personalization. Increasingly, personnel are asking for the same level of customization in their employee experience that we as consumers have come to expect in our products. Senior leaders must be mindful to meet these demands with consideration for the priorities of staff members from different generations, locations and backgrounds.

Organizations need to provide leadership training programs that will equip executives and managers to apply a people-centric and empathetic approach.

Emergenetics can help you address these changing dynamics and cultivate cultures of high performance. Using our training programs, companies will close skills gaps and strengthen the in-demand people capabilities that drive productivity, strengthen innovation and improve employee engagement.

What is Emergenetics?

Distinct in the industry for measuring BOTH Thinking and Behavioral Attributes, Emergenetics uncovers the brilliant ways you prefer to engage and interact with others.

Backed by significant research that has been revalidated over the past 30 years, the Emergenetics assessment reveals an individual’s preferences for:

FOUR thinking attributes

• Analytical – Combines rational thought with abstract ideas. Those with an Analytical preference tend to be logical problem solvers and interested in reasoning.
• Structural – Combines sequential thought with practical ideas. People with this preference often like guidelines and details to bring order to chaos.
• Social – Combines intuitive thought with appreciation of people. Those with a Social preference tend to be relational and concerned about impacts to others.
• Conceptual – Combines intuitive thought with abstract ideas. Conceptual thinkers are usually imaginative and appreciate the big picture.

THREE behavioral attributes

• Expressiveness – Explains the outward display of emotions toward others and the world-at-large on a spectrum of introspective to gregarious.
• Assertiveness – Describes the style and pace with which one advances thoughts, feelings and beliefs on a continuum of steady and peacekeeping to direct and driving.
• Flexibility – Reveals a person’s willingness to accommodate the thoughts, actions and feelings of others on a spectrum of firm and focused to amenable and welcoming of change.

The assessment data is turned into a clear, one-page report, describing a person’s preferences for each Attribute and how their inclinations compare to the world at large. Because all people possess some degree of each Attribute, employees can easily compare their results, enabling individuals to recognize how to work together better and use one another’s strengths to improve collaboration. The ease of use and instant applicability make it a great tool for upskilling initiatives, team development solutions or leadership programs.

We assess our Profile’s validity and reliability every two years and renorm as needed to reflect the global population. As a result, users can be confident in receiving accurate, consistent insights into who they are and can use their learnings to support global connections with colleagues around the world.

Explore Our Programs for Team Development and Leadership Skills

Our training programs are tailored to your organization’s needs. Some companies partner directly with Emergenetics International or our network of Certified Associates and add components of our offerings into their existing learning and development programs. Others certify their own talent professionals in Emergenetics so they can integrate the solutions into their professional development or leadership training program. Whichever path you choose, these offerings are our most popular.

The Individual Emergenetics Profile for Development Opportunities

People have to understand themselves before they can make changes to improve working relationships and achieve results, which is why all our programs start with the Emergenetics Profile. The one-page report details a person’s preferences for the seven Emergenetics Attributes.

Profile holders get access to:

• A narrative report, offering insights into how their tendencies impact their approach to communication, collaboration and leadership
• The Emergenetics Fundamentals eLearning, which helps individuals learn about the seven Attributes, understand the strengths of each preference and begin to make inferences about how these inclinations impact working relationships
• The Emergenetics+ portal and mobile app, which deliver customized tips to improve the way employees interact with one another

With the Profile, employees gain:

• Elevated self-awareness
• Greater insights into their leadership style
• Enhanced understanding of what motivates them in the workplace

The Profile is a useful element of any training or leadership program, from virtual mentoring programs with digital mentoring sessions to in-person leadership training sessions. It’s invaluable across industries and businesses, from global organizations to aspiring startups, whether you are working with future leaders, managers, executives, individual contributors or teams. It’s also a great fit for new staff members in the onboarding process to set the foundation for a common language in the workplace as they adapt to new job roles.

Meeting of the Minds Workshop for Development Programs

The Meeting of the Minds is one of our most popular training experiences and can be offered in person or virtually. Using a series of activities designed to improve learning retention and built with adult learning theory in mind, the program’s content is easy to remember, immediately applicable and entertaining.

The Meeting of the Minds is a great fit for:

• Intact teams looking to strengthen performance or team building
• Cross-functional departments seeking to improve their dynamics
• Leaders and managers eager to advance their soft skills as well as their ability to guide and influence others
• Organization-wide implementation plans to create a common understanding among employees and set the foundation for a positive culture

Attendees benefit from new tools to:

• Boost collaboration and team development
• Work more productively by recognizing differences in approach
• Problem-solve more effectively and quickly using one another’s strengths
• Enhance communication skills with consideration for the preferences of their colleagues
• Strengthen a sense of belonging and engagement by valuing employees’ gifts

Curious about the impact of these sessions? Here’s what our participants say after just ONE session!

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Team Dynamics for Small Groups for Elevated Effectiveness

The virtual 90-minute session helps create productive team environments. Online participants take a tour of the Profiles present within the group and receive practical insights from a Certified practitioner, who helps them understand how they can effectively leverage their individual and collective Thinking and Behavioral preferences.

Participants often include:

• Departments with three to nine employees
• Project teams, coming together on a cross-functional initiative
• Remote staff members who are seeking culture or team-building solutions in a distributed workforce

Attendees walk away with:

• Greater understanding of the teammates’ strengths and common questions
• New tools to support productivity by recognizing and adapting to their colleagues’ innate working styles
• Expanded insights into group tendencies and their impact on collaboration and decision-making
• Practical strategies to create high performing teams

The egLearning Library for Continuous Improvement

One workshop alone is unlikely to create lasting changes. To build leadership skills and support professional development, learning needs to be reinforced. The egLearning Library helps employees feel confident practicing the skills they gained from our workshops.

Each class takes no more than 30 minutes to complete and can be accessed from anywhere a learner has an internet connection, so staff can go at their own pace. Through the interactive courses, participants learn to use the seven Attributes to be more effective leaders, coworkers and contributors.

Available egLearning Library Courses

Ignite Your Preferences

An excellent next step after any introductory workshop, the class illuminates common misconceptions about each Attribute so employees can overcome bias, interact more effectively and reduce conflict.

Learn to Flex: Behaving to Improve Rapport

Exploring five common Behavioral combinations, this course elevates emotional intelligence and delivers tips to help staff work with people who interact differently from one another.

Learn to Flex: Thinking to Build Connection

Seeing the Thinking Attributes in action, participants discover how to use distinct thinking styles to promote creativity and innovation.

Cultivating Culture Through the Language of Grace

A great pairing for leadership development courses, this class offers practical support to use positive language to improve employee morale and strengthen psychological safety.

Hone Your Habits: Managing Stress

A strong complement to leadership training or wellness programming, this course explores the many ways employees may react in times of tension with consideration for their preferences.

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Power of WE for High Performing Teams

Delivered in person, the Power of WE workshops include classroom training paired with experiential activities that address specific challenges most commonly associated with teams.

Available Team Development Workshops

• Accelerating Team Performance revisits the value of distinct preferences in team performance and provides insights into using the group’s cognitive makeup to achieve results.
• Building Trust explores the actions that can develop trust or break it between team members.
• Crafting Team Norms helps groups move past the storming stages of development and identify results-driven behaviors that drive effectiveness.
• Fostering Innovation explores diverging approaches to creativity and how to create an environment where new ideas are welcomed.
• Managing Change reveals how the seven Emergenetics Attributes approach transitions and how individual employees can navigate uncertainty with confidence.
• Respecting Differences empowers participants to see differences as sources of strength and use these insights to advance organizational success.

  

Our Power of WE series is most often used in team development programs for business; however, many of the courses can be applied to leadership programs as well. By exploring tactics to address the common obstacles their teams may face, managers build transferable skills that they can apply with staff.

Why Choose Emergenetics Over Other Tools for Your Team Development or Leadership Program

While we like to think we have the best solutions to support employee training programs and leadership development, we know there are a lot of great tools on the market. Often, people choose Emergenetics for a few reasons.

Integrating Thinking + Behaviors

Most tools in the marketplace only measure EITHER Thinking or Behavioral preferences, and often, combine both, which can lead to results that don’t feel as accurate. For example, think of the word « Extraversion. » It’s often used to describe someone who is energized by engaging with others and is quite outgoing. However, there are plenty of individuals who are energized by people, yet appreciate their alone time. We have the thinking and behavioral science to prove that!

By breaking down these differences, employees walk away with a more complete picture of who they are and how to work with one another, which results in greater accuracy and productive applications.

Delivering Strengths-Based Solutions

Many tools say they are strengths-based, yet their workshops focus on all the things a person should change about themselves. We aren’t big fans of that approach, and it often hinders adoption of your learning investments. Every person is capable of using their gifts to achieve great things, so our training and leadership programs help staff understand their brilliances and those of their colleagues, so they can reach their goals.

When you truly celebrate your workforce, you’ll also find that personnel are more engaged, inspired and willing to put in discretionary effort.

Leaning on Global Research

Our tool is used in more than 40 countries, and every two years, we assess the Profile’s reliability and validity. As needed, we also renorm our data, using our global responses. Many assessments on the market rely on outdated research that has not been proactively reassessed, meaning their clients may be using inaccurate reporting tools.

Turning Insights into Action

While some may feel more dimensions are better, too many data points can cause confusion and leave leaders, managers and teammates unsure of how to use their results. Emergenetics measures seven Attributes, providing insights into how your preferences compare with the world at large. The assessment delivers enough information so that staff members feel seen and understood, without providing so much detail that it’s difficult to apply to employee growth or leadership development.

Implementing Emergenetics in Leadership, Employee & Team Development Programs for Businesses

Our offerings can easily integrate into the learning and development initiatives for businesses of all sizes and help them attain their organizational goals.

Take a look at a few examples to inspire your next steps.

Strengthening Leadership Training Programs

New leaders, senior managers and executives need a variety of skills to succeed in their leadership roles. Emergenetics often serves as the foundation to build in-demand leadership skills through focused training solutions. One such program was conducted with 911 call centers, where Emergenetics improved their leadership programs by increasing soft skills, providing actionable strategies to strengthen team dynamics and elevating empathy.

Elevating Employee Morale and Engagement

Employees experience greater job satisfaction and engagement when companies create positive cultures, senior leaders value their staff and team leaders know how to effectively motivate their people. Our solutions increase engagement in two ways. First, we can work through your leadership training programs to equip participants to understand their direct reports and use their strengths to drive connection. One example comes from our work with First Onsite.

Companies can also adopt a bottom-up strategy to strengthen engagement like Otter Products. Their Learning & Development team focused on getting all staff members in their US office an Emergenetics Profile and introducing them to the Attributes through the Meeting of the Minds. By understanding their colleagues’ innate strengths, participants learned to improve team relationships, cultivate a positive culture and accelerate professional growth.

Advancing High-Performing Cultures

Organizations often use Emergenetics in employee development and leadership training programs because we can them achieve results, as we did for the Virginia Department of Social Services. When the organization began using our solutions, the team was struggling to find success. A practice model introduced was not fully operationalized six years later, and communication was stunted. Using Emergenetics to design customized communication and collaboration strategies, the department:

• Turned around stagnated performance, fully implementing the practice model and major assistance programs
• Increased average tenure significantly
• Supported career development, with the majority of employees departing the department for either a promotion or retirement

We also love highlighting our work with Wyndham Vacation Ownerships. When building a new HQ, WVO applied Emergenetics to align their project team and define how they would work together using their strengths. The result? The successful completion of a massive project that finished ahead of schedule and on budget!

Cultivating Continuous Learning Programs

A strong learning culture enables employees to keep advancing in their careers and prepare for the future of work. Partnering with LUXASIA, we helped them use leadership training to cultivate a growth mindset within front line employees.

We delivered a tailored workshop for senior leaders, revealing how different Thinking and Behavioral preferences impacted a person’s approach to mistake making and risk taking. Leaders then built plans to implement a psychologically safe environment. In fact, 86% of participants felt competent and confident in building growth mindsets within their teams at the end of this leadership training program.

Reinforcing Our Training Programs

Emergenetics+ Mobile App

Every person who completes the Emergenetics Profile gets access to our mobile app and online portal. The resources provide employees with on-demand tools to address common challenges using the seven Attributes, such as giving feedback, setting goals, leading an engaging meeting and more. Participants also get customized tips to improve the way they collaborate and communicate based on their own Thinking and Behavioral preferences as well as those of the colleagues and teams they are connected with.

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Associate Certification

While many of our clients first engage with our team to improve their professional development or leadership programs, growing organizations often empower employees to sustain Emergenetics programming internally. In Associate Certification, available virtually and in person, attendees get the knowledge and training materials they need to effectively facilitate our introductory workshops as well as integrate Emergenetics into other curricula.

Designed for in-house Human Resources and Talent Development professionals as well as consultants and coaches, the two-day training program equips participants to:

• Understand the seven Attributes and the science behind Emergenetics
• Debrief Profiles to reveal strengths as well as boost self-awareness, emotional intelligence and personal effectiveness
• Facilitate Meeting of the Minds and Team Dynamics for Small Groups workshops to enhance group dynamics and performance using cognitive diversity
• Transform organizations, employee development and leadership training programs by applying the Attributes to elevate communication, collaboration and culture

Ready to Transform Performance for Your Team?

Every organization has its own goals and challenges. That’s why we start with a consultation so we can understand your needs and create an employee training or leadership development program specifically tailored to your priorities. Let’s get started!

FAQs about Our Team & Leadership Development Programs

Q: What is the Emergenetics Profile, and how is it different from other personality tests?

A: The Emergenetics Profile measures how individuals prefer to think and behave. Using four Thinking Attributes and three Behavioral Attributes, people learn about their strengths and how their preferences compare with others. These insights help them develop valuable soft skills to further their own careers paths as well as lead and perform more effectively.

It stands apart because it is valid and reliable. Unlike many assessments, we analyze our data every two years to ensure you get accurate results. With seven easy-to-remember Attributes, our tools are readily comparable, meaning participants don’t just learn about themselves, they walk away with new insights and a clear understanding of how they can positively transform the ways they work with others.

Q: What’s included in the Meeting of the Minds workshop?
A: The Meeting of the Minds is led by a Certified Emergenetics Associate and can be conducted virtually or in person. In the program, learners explore the science of Emergenetics, discover their Thinking and Behavioral preferences and uncover new ways to communicate, collaborate and connect with others. Participants also receive their Profile, Narrative Report and access to the Emergenetics+ mobile app and portal with practical resources that they can apply long after the session concludes.

Q: Who are the programs designed for?
A: Our tools are designed for intact teams, individual contributors, project groups, managers and those in leadership positions from emerging leaders to C-suite executives. We recognize that it’s not just top talent who deserve training, every employee has the potential to contribute so much more when they can apply their strengths.

Q: What kind of results can we expect from using Emergenetics?
A: Results will vary based on how you choose to apply the tool. Most commonly, we find that organizations investing in our solutions for team development benefit from increased productivity and greater psychological safety – not to mention a more pleasant work experience. Those using our offerings in a leadership program see benefits like improved executive presence, stronger coaching skills, enhanced emotional intelligence and more engaged direct reports. For organizations seeking organization-wide employee development solutions, we often deliver improved onboarding experiences, elevated performance, enhanced engagement rates and more positive workplace cultures.

Q: How is Team Dynamics for Small Groups different from the Meeting of the Minds?

A: Team Dynamics for Small Groups serves teams of three to nine employees, while the Meeting of the Minds supports larger groups who may or may not work together frequently. In either program, attendees learn about the science of Emergenetics and the strengths of each Attribute. In Team Dynamics, participants take a tour of their individual and group Profiles to identify specific tactics to strengthen communication, collaboration and problem-solving based on their makeup. In the Meeting of the Minds, participants engage in experiential activities to learn how each Attribute approaches work and how they can use the collective strengths of each preference to improve outcomes.

Q: Is the Emergenetics Profile validated and research-based?
A: When you are looking for solutions for team development and leadership training, you need to be able to trust the tools you use, so we pride ourselves on our research. Tested with more than 10,000 individuals, our assessment was subjected to rigorous statistical analysis in its creation and meets the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. We analyze our data every two years to ensure that the tool remains as reliable and valid as it was when it was developed. You can even explore our Technical Report.

Q: Can these programs be delivered remotely?
A: Yes, our certified practitioners are experienced in facilitating workshops virtually or in person. We have a host of solutions for online participants, including our signature workshops, digital learnings, portal, mobile app and Profile.

Q: What ongoing support or resources are included?
A: Each program has its own takeaways. For those using our workshops and digital learning tools, Emergenetics+ offers a range of actionable resources that individuals can use to continue applying the Attributes at work. Some of the tools include Attributes in Action guides, providing insights to address common workplace challenges, like resolving conflict, running an engaging meeting and boosting motivation. The app also allows individuals to connect with one another, so they can get customized tips to improve one-to-one interactions or group dynamics. These features are especially impactful for team members and leadership development.

For those who choose to become certified in Emergenetics, we have a dedicated support team that is available to help you strategize about how to integrate our solutions into employee training, executive coaching and leadership programs. Practitioners also gain access to an expanded library in the Emergenetics+ portal, which offers more activities, training materials, professional development resources, actionable templates and tools to track progress of their participants.

Q: How can we get started with Emergenetics?

A: To get started, sign up for a consultation with our Sales team. In this conversation, our staff will ask about your goals, the audiences you want to support, your current challenges and anticipated outcomes. Then, they will create tailored recommendations to support your needs, whether that’s for your leadership program, team development, employee upskilling initiatives, culture building or any other people-related opportunity!

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