PRISM® Workstyle Profile

A research-based assessment.
Helping you work and lead across cultures.

A research-based 90-minute assessment built on Dr David Livermore's Global TeamLEAD framework. Discover the five dimensions that shape how you work, and the language to bridge the workstyle differences that hold teams back.

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About 90 minutes · Self-paced · Personalised profile · Verifiable certificate

Why this matters

Teams don't break down on the work.
They break down on how the work gets done.

Most teamwork problems aren't about skill. They're about how people communicate, collaborate, lead, and trust. PRISM® Workstyle gives you the language to name what's happening on your team, and practical strategies to bridge it.

Silent friction

When workstyles clash, the team feels it before anyone can name it. Different speeds. Different ways of disagreeing. Different reads on hierarchy. Productivity slows, trust frays, and no one knows quite why.

A more global workforce

Your colleagues and team members increasingly grew up in different countries, industries, and households. Their defaults aren't yours. Most people learn this the hard way, through misunderstanding.

Self-awareness is the lever

You can't change anyone's defaults overnight. But the moment you can name yours and theirs, the friction has language. Language is the start of every real solution.

97% of employees say poor teamwork negatively impacts their work. The single greatest factor in whether a team collaborates, feels safe, and performs well is their leader's cross-cultural workstyle awareness.

Sources: Salesforce Research; Livermore, Global TeamLEAD.

About

What is PRISM?

PRISM is a research-based team assessment that measures cross-cultural workstyle differences to help leaders and teams improve performance. Your PRISM profile shows how you approach the five dimensions: power, risk, identity, speed, messaging.

PRISM doesn't label you. It places you on a continuum across each dimension, giving you the language to bridge workstyle differences instead of getting stuck in them.

PRISM is one part of Global TeamLEAD, David Livermore, PhD's broader framework for working and leading across cultures. Other layers (communication, leadership, contribution) are available separately. This course focuses on PRISM Workstyles.

The five dimensions

What you will explore.

Power, Risk, Identity, Speed, Messaging. Five continuums that surface the cross-cultural patterns in how you work.

P

Power

Flat  ·  Top-down

How you relate to authority and shared decision-making. Whether you treat hierarchy as a given or something to flatten.

R

Risk

Tolerant  ·  Averse

How comfortable you are acting before every detail is settled. Your appetite for ambiguity and learning by doing.

I

Identity

Self-oriented  ·  Group-oriented

Where you find your footing. In your own work and judgement, or in the success and connection of the team.

S

Speed

Faster  ·  Slower

How quickly you commit and how patient you are with the slower work of consensus, planning, and reflection.

M

Messaging

Direct  ·  Indirect

How directly you say what you actually think, and how much of the meaning you leave to context.

How it works

Four short online modules totaling 90 minutes.

Build the skills to work and relate well across cultures. Move between modules in any order. Your progress saves automatically.

Self-assessment

Where you stand

A short workstyle profile anchors where you sit on each of the five PRISM dimensions. Your starting point. No right answers.

Video lessons

Watch and learn

Focused teaching from David Livermore, PhD and the PRISM team. Pause, rewind, resume anytime. Captions included.

Quizzes

Recall and reflect

Quick multiple-choice checks help each idea stick before you move on, with feedback on every answer.

Scenarios

Real-world application

Decision-based scenarios apply each dimension to actual workplace situations, so you see how the framework holds up under pressure.

Privacy by design

Your responses are yours.

Sovereign hosting

Stored in Australian Supabase infrastructure. No transfer overseas.

Automatic deletion

Identifiable data is purged after 12 months for under-18s, 24 for adults.

Right to erase

One link removes everything we hold about you, no questions asked.

Ready when you are.
Start with the Workstyle Profile.

You'll need an access code from your facilitator or programme administrator. Your progress saves automatically. Start, stop, come back.

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