How Do I Use 5 Dynamics with the People in My Business?

5 Dynamics can be used for many kinds of Business situations.

• Employee Development
• Leadership Development
• Coaching
• Conflict Management
• Team Building
• Training
• Process Improvement

As Peter Drucker points out, “Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values and how they best perform.”  5 Dynamics provides an ideal foundation for strengths-based employee development programs that start by identifying an employee’s innate strengths and natural energy flow.  When employees are encouraged to understand and build on their strengths, research shows that the organization as a whole benefits.

Great leaders understand their own strengths, and know how to bring out the best performance in others.  5 Dynamics builds self awareness and appreciation for others’ strengths.  Any leadership model can be mapped to the 5 Dynamics, and understood in terms of the different energies that underlie great leadership.

5 Dynamics provides unique Coaching reports which help managers and coaches understand how they can best support others’ development.  These reports show managers and coaches how their own preferred process compares to the process of the person they are managing or coaching.

The Center for Creative Leadership says, “In the 20th century, we taught people how to manage personalities. In the 21st century, we need to teach people how to manage process.”   5 Dynamics helps people see their differences as process differences, and focuses attention on managing conflict by aligning process.

In less than 5 minutes, 5 Dynamics reveals the ways in which team members naturally focus their energy and efforts as they work together in any process. 

Because 5 Dynamics focuses on process rather than on personality, it is easy for teammates to recognize and capitalize on one another’s strengths, and align their energies to work together.  5 Dynamics also helps teams recognize blind spots and imbalances.

5 Dynamics was originally developed to help educators understand learning differences.  Anyone involved in training and development can benefit from understanding their own learning process, and the different ways that others learn.

5 Dynamics is a process tool that builds process awareness.  It identifies the core process that underlies all other processes. It helps people design and evaluate business processes from the perspective of the 5th Dynamic, which takes into account each phase of the  core process.  As Einstein has pointed out,"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”