Working Styles

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Ryan Group’s Working Styles

The Ryan Group’s Working Styles assessment is an online self-assessment tool that provides insights into an individual's work style preferences, behaviors, and interpersonal interactions. 

By understanding their work style profile, individuals can identify potential strengths and blind spots, and organizations can leverage this data to optimize communication, team dynamics, employee engagement, and overall workplace productivity, performance, development, and effectiveness.

The assessment results can pinpoint an employee’s working style profile and guide the development of personalized training, coaching, and development plans to help maximize their productivity and job satisfaction.

How we think and act at work

People bring different working style preferences to their jobs. Some prefer considerable people contact; others favor task assignments. Some think out loud and thrive in fast-paced environments; others are reserved and cautious, thinking before they speak. Our preferences influence our behaviors. 

We refer to these differences as Working Styles, which reflect the various ways people behave at work. 

Understanding your own Working Style and the styles of those around you dramatically improves your communication and effectiveness with your manager, co-workers, and the many others you come in contact with. 

RGi created Working Styles for organizations and career development professionals seeking resources to assist employees, leaders, coaches, mentors, clients, and others, and strengthening their career mapping knowledge with fresh energy, confidence, and commitment.

The Assessment

Working Styles is based on studies of observable behaviors. Working Styles identifies four preferred behavioral styles that measure important aspects of a person’s behavior: Expressive, Amiable, Driver, and Analytical.

The online self-assessment:

· Generates self-understanding and self-awareness. 

· Measures your level of emotional responsiveness and assertiveness. 

· Identifies characteristics, behaviors, preferred orientation (task or people), and pace.

· Presents an overview of the four behavioral styles: Expressive, Amiable, Driver, and Analytical.

· Displays a graph showing the scoring results of your assessments in order of preference.

· Provides an in-depth description of all styles, including numerous techniques to help you better know your own style and recognize others’ styles. Once you understand others’ styles, refer to the style map to learn about their personality characteristics, strengths, and preferences. Observing other styles will provide you with valuable insights that you can use to build stronger, more effective relationships. Tips are given on how to bridge the gap between your style and theirs.

The Multi-Rater Component

The online, multi-rater component (360).

Working Styles offers an optional (multi-rater) feedback component, enabling colleagues to share their perceptions of your behavior and attitude. 

· Provides a co-worker’s assessment to see how others perceive you, with instructions for completion.

· Shows a summary scoring for you to compare your self-assessment to your co-workers.

This information helps negotiate interpersonal relationships and tasks to achieve mutually satisfactory goals.

Working Styles Map

You can access any style in the Working Styles Map. Once you understand your coworkers’ styles, refer to the style map to learn about their personality characteristics, strengths, and preferences. Observing other styles will provide you with valuable insights that you can use to build stronger, more effective relationships.

Resources and Materials

The Ryan Group's Working Styles assessment stands out with its comprehensive support tools, which can be utilized throughout multiple delivery methods, including workshops, coaching, mentoring, interviewing, selection, onboarding, teaming, productivity, recruitment, and retention. I

It offers a more specialized evaluation of an individual's natural working methods, collaboration approaches, prioritization abilities, and problem-solving orientations within a workplace context. This unique approach significantly contributes to roles, teams, and organizational effectiveness, making it a superior choice for understanding and optimizing career development.

Working Style Report

The Working Style Report is a 65-page, tailored review that provides further interpretation and insights, along with guidelines, tips, activities, and next steps for moving forward. It:

· Provides insights into reading situations and the needs of your colleagues, clients, patients, and others, enhancing your ability to collaborate effectively.

· Identifies styles’ strengths and pinpoints potential consequences of overuse.

· Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each style and how the styles affect each other. 

The insights gained will assist you in building cohesiveness, creating a shared purpose, and fostering respect among members, as well as understanding the behaviors of the four styles, their advantages and disadvantages, and how the styles interact with one another.

TeamStyle Report

The TeamStyle Report expands upon the four-quadrant model introduced in the Working Style assessment. It presents a profile of your team’s characteristics, helping you determine your team’s favored style, strengths, and growth opportunities, as well as the team leader’s preferred style. The report provides insights into similarities and differences among team members. It contains valuable guidelines and tips you can draw on to promote understanding, defuse conflict, and more fully utilize each member’s talents.

The TeamStyle Report fosters inclusivity and promotes collaboration. This inclusive approach helps one understand one's colleagues, appreciate their strengths, enhance communication, and encourage collaboration across generations, within teams, and with individuals from diverse backgrounds, ultimately creating a more harmonious and productive work environment.

Reliability and Validity

The Working Styles assessment instrument has undergone an independent review for validity and reliability and has met all industry standards, including:

· Adequacy of the items.

· Theoretical framework of the intended measures.

· Statistical difference among each of the types for establishing discriminant separation.

· Stability of the inventory over time.

· Statistical convergence and divergence of each behavior scale.

· Measuring the theoretical construct.

Working Styles has been determined to be without bias across ethnic boundaries, gender, and age groups.