Team Dynamics

[OPEN ON DARCY — direct, grounded, picking up from the Insights video]

Individual reports tell you who someone is.

The Team Dynamics Report tells you what happens when you put them all together.

[TEAM DYNAMICS REPORT appears — Natural quadrant map, page 3]

Let me show you something real. This is an actual team's Natural profile. Look at where everyone lands.

The bottom left quadrant — slow-paced, indirect, task-oriented. That's the Elephant zone. Thirty-two percent of this team lives there naturally.

The bottom right — slow-paced, open, relationship-oriented. That's Dolphin. Forty-five percent.

Add those together. Seventy-seven percent of this team is naturally sitting in the slower-paced, more cautious half of the map.

Now look at the top. Lion? Eighteen percent. Lemur? Five percent.

What does that tell you? Methodical. Steady. Thorough. High follow-through. Not chaotic. Not flashy.

[ADAPTED quadrant map appears, page 4]

Now look at what happens in the Adapted graph. The Dolphin population dropped from 45% to 27%. The Lemur population — 5% naturally — jumped to 23%.

That means people who are not naturally energetic and outward-facing are performing those behaviors every day. And the Dolphins are showing up less like themselves than they naturally would.

[BACK TO DARCY]

Is that automatically a problem? Not necessarily. But here's what I want you to ask: *What is the environment rewarding — and what is it costing the people whose natural style isn't that thing?*

The Dolphins on this team still have all of their Dolphin needs. Those haven't gone anywhere — they're being suppressed while they perform something else.

And that suppression has a cost.

The Team Dynamics Report doesn't tell you what to do. It tells you what's actually happening — so you can ask the right questions instead of managing the symptoms.

[FADE]