Philadelphia's Innovation: True Analytics of Team Chemistry

Half Moon Bay, California, October 27, 2014 (Newswire.com) - A quarter-century ago, two behavioral scientists began searching for the source of ‘team spirit’, that mysterious quality of joyful team collaboration, resilience, and productivity. Years of trials with traditional metrics – from IQ and personality traits tests to aptitude and values surveys – suggested pieces of the puzzle, but gave no definitive answer. As a last resort, they began to focus their research on the needs of the team itself, as if it were a living being. With that, a new field of management science was born.

Dr. Janice Presser, co-founder and CEO of The Gabriel Institute and architect of the technology behind Teamability®, explains it this way:  “Teaming happens between people, not just inside of them, and two different kinds of teaming happen simultaneously. There is interaction with other individuals (Person-to-Person teaming), and interaction with the shared sense of ‘Team’ (Person-to-Team teaming.) When both forms of team interaction align, team members begin to experience and be recognized for their truly meaningful contributions.”

"Teamability is like having the answer key to a million-piece organizational puzzle."

R. 'Ray' Wang, Chairman and Chief Analyst, Constellation Reasearch

Dr. Presser goes on to say, “To fully understand team chemistry, you have to integrate both ‘P2P’ and ‘P2T’ measures, and that turned out to be very complicated. It took nine years of software development to efficiently generate individual and group ‘Team Analysis’ reporting.” As their work progressed, Dr. Presser and her colleague, Dr. Jack Gerber, developed readily usable methods for creating positive, collaborative team structures, and for management decision support.

Dr. Presser will be a featured guest speaker at Constellation Connected Enterprise 2014, a global conference on digital business innovation and disruption, Oct. 29-31, at the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Half Moon Bay, CA.

Late in 2012, the Philadelphia-based Gabriel Institute launched Teamability for business users, and it has produced some extraordinary benefits. A $1B company’s 30% rate of new-hire turnover was completely eliminated, almost overnight. Teamability-based Team Analysis has been successfully applied to business transformations, lean manufacturing initiatives, virtual team management, workforce planning, career planning, and succession planning.