The cross-functional team concept is a great solution in team management to achieve efficient workgroups. And with the different solutions of Predictive Index, a leading tool in the recruitment and talent management industry, you can obtain accurate data to manage your organization's human resources, creating highly productive work environments.
What is cross-functional equipment?
A cross-functional team is a work group formed by people with different skills, behaviors and knowledge that collaborate together with a common goal. The interesting thing about this type of work groups is that they work very efficiently, as they allow the hyper-specialization of each member of the group in a particular area to achieve the best results.
For example, if we take as a reference a project to create a new product, a cross-functional team would be composed of designers, developers and marketing and sales specialists. And, within this group, there will be members who take on a leadership role and others who take on a team role; some will be more reserved and others more sociable; some will be more patient and others more proactive; some will be more flexible and others more precise, etc.
Why are roles important within a work team?
Roles within a work team are fundamental to ensure productivity. Specifically, roles allow:
- Improve communication: The personality of each team member makes each individual unique, and therefore requires a specific type of communication to achieve their best performance.
- Leverage individual talents: When a person is assigned a role according to his or her strengths, he or she can make a more valuable contribution to the team.
- Avoid conflicts: Being clear about what to expect from each team member based on his or her role helps avoid tensions.
How to create more efficient work teams with IP
If you hold a management position or are in charge of human resources management in your company, you will know how difficult it is to create perfectly optimized work teams.
This is where PI Design comes in to help you choose the best candidates to be part of a work group, taking into account the team's objectives and the role they will occupy, and basing your decision on data.
PI Design is a Predictive Index module that aligns the team with your strategy, thanks to the possibility of evaluating those strategic objectives together with your behavioral style as a Team. This way you will be able to know where the team is suited to succeed and where it may need supports.
As in all modules, PI is based on one's profile based on the criteria of:
- Dominance: Based on the independence or collaboration with which someone performs his or her work.
- Extroversion: The way of interacting with other people.
- Patience: The tendency to stability or variety of tasks at work.
- Formality: The difference between being more flexible or needing well-defined and detailed guidelines on the procedure to be followed for each task.
Once you know the profile of each candidate or employee on your staff, you can make data-driven decisions about their personality type at work and their best fit with the team.
How to motivate a team with PI
If you are a manager who wants to improve your leadership style, PI Inspire is for you. This PI module will make you a more efficient manager, enabling you to:
- Build more prosperous relationships between employees: From the Predictive Index platform you will find information on how communication between two people should work according to their role and personality.
- Understand your strengths and areas of caution: With PI Inspire you will get personalized guidance on how your behavioral impulses manifest themselves. Here you will find some self-coaching tips to help you bring out the best version of yourself as a manager.
Did you know that at Prímula Asesores we provide you with a free PI demo so that you can discover for yourself how this tool will help you? Request a free trial for your companyComplete your PI test and our professionals will tell you how you can implement PI in your organization.