Group Styles Inventory™
The Group Styles Inventory™ (GSI) from Human Synergistics International is a unique, research-based tool designed to measure and improve group interactions and teamwork. Backed by extensive research and international validation, the GSI provides group members with a safe framework to discuss their behaviors and their impact on team performance. By identifying factors that hinder or enhance teamwork, the GSI helps teams foster better cooperation, communication, and innovative thinking, leading to higher-quality decisions and improved group synergy.
With real-time data collection, individual and team-level results, and guided facilitation by accredited practitioners, the GSI empowers teams to have meaningful conversations that drive lasting improvements in teamwork and problem-solving.
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Why Use Group Styles Inventory™ The Group Styles Inventory (GSI) is the only research-based tool that provides a valid and reliable measure of how people in groups interact with each other and work as a team to solve problems.
The GSI is an excellent tool for helping teams and groups solve problems more effectively. It’s particularly valuable for team development initiatives such as:
- measuring and monitoring team performance
- creating a team environment that encourages innovation and idea-sharing
- sharpening team members’ analytical skills
- developing consensus-based decision-making
- improving the quality and acceptance of group and organisational decisions.
Extensively researched and internationally proven, this survey tool provides group members with a ‘safe’ way to talk about their behaviour and how it affects the group’s performance.
By highlighting factors that are helping or hindering their teamwork, they empower them to change the way they think and behave, leading to better cooperation, communication and consensus, more innovative thinking, and better-quality decisions.
How Group Styles Inventory™ Works?
The GSI is designed for both temporary and permanent groups responsible for solving problems and making decisions. It can be used as a continual improvement exercise or when a group is embarking on, halfway through, or has completed a problem-solving process. The GSI has three parts:
- Teams come together and attempt a problem solving simulation spread across 60-90 mins. This simulation is then scored for productivity and synergy.
- Individual group members then respond to 72 statements describing teamwork behaviour, such as team effectiveness, solution acceptance, solution quality and team synergy. It takes about 15 minutes.
- The team members score their surveys and profile their individual and combined results. It takes 10-15 minutes.
Data is collected in an online portal and processed in real-time. Participants receive access to their own results and the team’s; the portal also contains an integrated development guide.
As an accredited Human Synergistics practitioner, we guide the team through their results and facilitate the team to come up with action plans to work on, back at the workplace.
Our Group Styles Inventory™ Offerings Team Building Survival Simulation Series
Desert Survival Situation™
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It’s a hot August day and your plane has just crash-landed in the Sonoran Desert in the Southwestern United States.
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Desert II Survival Situation™
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On your way home from Acapulco, your chartered plane experiences engine trouble and crash-lands somewhere in the Sonoran Desert in the Southwestern United States. Identify your four greatest problems and the best strategy for your survival. Then, decide on the criticality of and best use for 16 items salvaged from the crash.
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Reef Survival Situation™
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On an excursion from Tahiti to Australia, your yacht strikes a coral reef and begins taking on water through the hull.
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Tsunami
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Your group is enjoying a beach party on the coast in central Chile when a text message alerts that a tsunami is approaching.
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Subarctic Survival Situation™
22 air miles east of your intended destination, your float plane crashes on the east shore of Laura Lake, in the subarctic region of the northern Quebec-Newfoundland border.
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Cascades Survival Situation™
On the way back from a weekend retreat, the helicopter carrying you and your group crashes in a small clearing high in the Cascades Mountains.
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Our Group Styles Inventory™ Offerings Business Simulation Series
Coach — Co-Achieving
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You have been asked to coach a poorly performing sports team. Coach is designed to complement the Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) and encourages thinking about the values that underpin achievement motivation.
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Project Planning Situation™
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Your team has been assigned responsibility for designing a plan for managing a secret project.
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Meeting Effectiveness Situation™
Increasing turnover rates in most of your stores require that you call a meeting to discuss the problem.
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Customer Complaint Situation™
A customer approaches you with a complaint.
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Envisioning a Culture for Quality™
A recent survey conducted by corporate headquarters indicates that your store rates “average” in service quality and suggests that the problem may be your store’s culture.
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Turnaround™
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You are a general manager in a large company that has just reassigned you to its failing blue jeans manufacturing plant.
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Our Group Styles Inventory™ Offerings Challenge Simulation Series
Organisational Change Challenge™
You work for a growing manufacturer of high-quality plastic parts and are a member of one of its continuous improvement teams.
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Critical Thinking Challenge™
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You are a general manager in a large company that has just reassigned you to its failing blue jeans manufacturing plant.
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Constructive Negotiations Challenge™
You are a manager at a large computer software company and serve on a committee responsible for negotiating agreements and contracts with prospective partner organisations.
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Strategic Planning Challenge™
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You are the manager of a strategic business unit and serve on a committee responsible for developing strategic plans consistent with the mission and philosophy of the larger organisation.
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Performance Management Challenge™
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You have been appointed to serve on a committee responsible for developing new performance management guidelines and procedures that will be used throughout a large financial services company.
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Project Management Challenge™
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You are a project manager and have recently been appointed to serve on a committee responsible for outlining a standard process for managing projects within your organisation.
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FAQs - Group Styles Inventory™ (GSI)?
GSI is an assessment tool designed to evaluate how team members interact and approach problems collaboratively. It helps measure constructive, passive, and aggressive styles within teams to improve effectiveness and problem-solving outcomes.
GSI is used alongside simulations or real organizational problems. Team members complete the survey either during or after a task. Results are scored and visualized using the Human Synergistics Circumplex to identify styles that facilitate or inhibit performance.
The GSI is used for monitoring team performance, encouraging innovation, enhancing analytical and decision-making skills, and improving team problem-solving capabilities. It also helps develop constructive group environments.
GSI is suitable for any temporary or permanent group responsible for problem-solving and decision-making, such as project teams, leadership groups, or task forces.
The GSI provides visual feedback on team dynamics, identifies effective interaction styles, and promotes consensus-building. It helps teams adopt constructive approaches for superior results.
Completing the GSI typically takes about 15 minutes, with an additional 10–15 minutes required for scoring and profiling the results.
Yes, GSI usage is part of the Styles Accreditation Workshop. This accreditation ensures that facilitators are trained to interpret the results effectively. It is also pre-approved for HRCI recertification credits. Reach us at info@seven.net.in for more details.
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