PRISM® Workstyle & Leadership

A research-based assessment.
For people who work and lead across cultures.

The PRISM® profiles are grounded in two decades of research on global leadership and team dynamics, combining insights from established leadership frameworks with new studies on how teams actually get work done.

Get started with your access code

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

Built on Dr David Livermore's research
Five dimensions · six leadership archetypes
Verifiable certificates of completion
Self-paced · progress saves automatically
Why this matters

Most teams don't 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 two assessments

About each assessment

Your facilitator sets you up with the right one, so there's nothing to choose here. This is simply what each assessment 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.

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.

Curious about the bigger picture?

PRISM sits inside Global TeamLEAD, a complete approach to building high performing teams. Explore the programme, the profiles, and how leaders get certified.

Learn more about Global TeamLEAD