Global TeamLEAD

Learn how to lead anyone, anywhere.

Global TeamLEAD tackles one of the most urgent challenges organisations face today: helping people reduce friction and perform at their best. Through an evidence-based team leadership assessment and curriculum, team members and leaders gain the insights, tools and practical strategies to build high-performing teams anywhere.

Now available through Master Certifiers of Global TeamLEAD.

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No account needed. Your facilitator gives you an access code, and you enter it with your name to begin.

Why this matters

Most teams do not struggle with the work itself. They struggle with how the work gets done.

In most teams the real problem isn't ability. It's the everyday differences in how people communicate, make decisions and handle disagreement. PRISM helps a team see those differences clearly, then gives practical ways to work with them.

The friction nobody names

When workstyles clash, people usually feel it long before they can explain it. One person wants the decision made today while another wants more time. One pushes back openly while another goes quiet. Meetings drag, trust wears thin, and nobody is quite sure what changed.

A more global workforce

The people you work with grew up in different countries, industries and households, and they carry different assumptions about how work should be done. Most of us only discover those assumptions when we collide with them.

It starts with self-awareness

Nobody changes the habits of a lifetime overnight, and they don't need to. Once a team can put words to how each person prefers to work, the friction becomes something you can talk about and plan for. That is where the practical work begins.

97% of employees say poor teamwork affects the quality of their work. And the strongest predictor of whether a team collaborates well, feels safe and performs is how aware its leader is of the different workstyles in the room.

Sources: Salesforce Research; Livermore, Global TeamLEAD.

The PRISM assessment

Two ways to see yourself clearly

Your facilitator sets you up with the right one, so there is nothing to choose here. This is simply what each version of PRISM covers, so you know what to expect.

For anyone on a team

PRISM® Workstyle

See how you approach work in teams across five dimensions: Power, Risk, Identity, Speed and Messaging. You finish with a printable profile and a practical action plan.

About 15 minutes · profile + action plan

For people who lead

PRISM® Leadership

Everything in the Workstyle profile, plus your dominant leadership archetype, one of six identified by Livermore's research, with guidance on leading from your strengths.

About 15 minutes · profile + archetype + action plan

Shared foundation

The same five PRISM® dimensions

Both pathways measure the same five dimensions, calibrated from Dr Livermore's research. Leadership layers an archetype on top.

An example PRISM® Workstyle profile

Each dimension is a continuum, not a category. Your score sits somewhere along it. No position is better or worse. They describe how you tend to work, not how well.

Power

Risk

Identity

Speed

Messaging

What's different

Two pathways, side by side

Workstyle is the foundation everyone takes. Leadership adds the archetype layer for people leading teams.

PRISM® Workstyle

How you work

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20 calibrated items measuring the five dimensions

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Your five-dimension profile rendered on screen

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Per-dimension feedback based on where you scored

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Printable action plan you can fill in by hand

The five dimensions, each shown as two poles.

PRISM® Leadership

How you lead

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Everything in Workstyle, plus...

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Your dominant archetype, assigned from where you sit across the five dimensions

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Archetype-specific growth prompts and exemplars

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Leadership-context interpretation of every dimension

One of six archetypes is assigned at the end of your assessment.

Founder and research lead

The research behind PRISM

David Livermore, PhDFounder and research lead, Global TeamLEAD and the PRISM assessments

David Livermore, PhD (Michigan State University) is a social scientist devoted to the topics of cultural intelligence (CQ) and global leadership and the author of several award-winning books, including Leading with Cultural Intelligence, Digital, Diverse & Divided, Driven by Difference, and Serving with Eyes Wide Open. His newest book, the third edition of Leading with Cultural Intelligence, is the bestselling book on cultural intelligence and is filled with the latest research, case studies, and strategies for anyone who has to lead someone who is different from them.

David is a founder of the Cultural Intelligence Center, Director of the Society of CQ Fellows, and the Ahmass Fakahany Visiting Professor in Global Leadership at Questrom's School of Business at Boston University. He consults with global organizations around the world, including Harvard, Google, Coca-Cola, the US Department of Defense, BMW, Qatar Airways, the United Nations, and dozens more. He has traveled to more than one hundred countries and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He also serves on several boards and is a Fellow with the Society of Leadership Fellows, Windsor Castle, a select leadership community that meets to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing us globally.

David loves to make social science accessible to practitioners. He has been interviewed and referenced by myriad news sources, including The Atlantic, CBS News, Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, Forbes, NBC, the New York Times, USA Today, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the South China Post.

David and his wife, Linda, have two adult daughters, Emily and Grace. Emily is a litigation lawyer, and Grace is a graphic designer. Some of their favorite family activities are traveling (fortunately!) and discovering new foods together.

The bigger picture

PRISM is where Global TeamLEAD begins. Around it sits a complete approach to building capable, culturally intelligent teams, including the wider programme and the pathway for leaders who go on to become certified.

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