Positioning people to succeed is like working with a giant puzzle – Ntrinsx can help you with that.
You know this about yourself – you are more energized, motivated and engaged when you are allowed to apply, and are recognized for, what you are good at and enjoy doing. Don’t you think the same would apply for everyone else? Ntrinsx helps you align values with the work they do.
Strong Leaders Make the Pieces Fit
Teams communicate better, collaborate more fluidly, have less conflict, leverage each other to face challenges, support each other through times of change, are more accountable for the team’s performance, and are more energized when they win.
You can expect sustainable performance from people only when the work they do is aligned with their values.
Bob Hill, Ntrinsx Founder
When leaders understand and show respect for the values of their team members, they naturally work better as a team.
Ntrinsx Colors – The Language of Your Culture
A workplace culture works when roles align with what people naturally value. Leaders shape the culture by building trust that only comes when people know they can count on each other to overcome challenges and succeed as a team.
When individuals can apply their strengths and operate in ways that feel authentic, motivation becomes intrinsic. Engagement rises because the environment supports how they think, prioritize, and contribute rather than forcing uniform behavior.
In a culture that works, communication is direct and respectful, accountability is shared, recognition and development are intentional.
Teams that function well can address issues early, give feedback without triggering defensiveness, and navigate disagreement without damaging relationships. Misunderstandings are clarified rather than allowed to grow and the culture serves as a performance driver.
Ntrinsx uses a Color metaphor to make it easy to remember and relate to a person’s values. It serves as a language — one that embeds a culture of respect. People feel like they belong. That’s what makes it sticky.
Gold people value responsibility. They focus on adherence to established policies and procedures. They are accountable for their actions and expect the same from others.
Green people value competence. They tend to be logical and analytical in their thought processes. They naturally think about how the situation at hand relates to the big picture, strategy.
Orange people value freedom and fun – freedom to follow their instincts and fun for themselves and others involved in their pursuits. They are focused on getting results and act purposefully to achieve them.
Blue people value relationships. They instinctively sense how people are feeling about what is happening around them. They are open, empathetic, and creative in their engagement of people.
The Power of Understanding Intrinsic Values in Team Management
This article explores how the understanding of intrinsic values translates into practical team management strategies to unlock higher levels of productivity, improve workplace culture, foster collaboration, and ultimately drive the business toward success.
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AI-Based Professional Coaching for Team Leaders
This article explores how AI-based coaching empowers team leaders of all experience levels to enhance engagement and improve team dynamics by understanding and leveraging individual strengths and aligning guidance with each team member’s intrinsic values.
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The Role of Leaders in the Development of Their Team
In this article, we’ll explore the critical elements of successful team management, focusing on the leader’s influence in professional development and how relating to intrinsic values can drive better team cohesion and performance.
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Microlearning Boosts Team Performance
Leaders and team members are often juggling multiple responsibilities, leaving little time or budget for traditional, lengthy training programs. Microlearning offers a highly effective way to upskill teams without disrupting their work schedules.
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The complexity of people, not process, poses the greatest leadership challenge.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
It's About Developing Your Team
A leader is someone who can translate vision into priorities, accountability, and consistent performance in a way that inspires their team members to engage fully in the execution of their direction.
That requires not only a knowledge of basic skills but, perhaps more importantly, a certain mastery of how to apply those skills to address all sorts of situations, particularly those involving individuals with diverse values, perspectives, and beliefs.
That’s why leadership development must involve a certain level of development for the members of their team. When team members build capability, they make better decisions and operate more efficiently with greater autonomy. That is especially critical when you have to accomplish more with fewer people.
LEARNING MODULES
For Leaders and Teams
GET THE BOOK FOR YOUR LEADERS
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Team Leadership – It’s Personal
By Bob Hill
In Team Leadership – It’s Personal, Bob Hill, founder of Ntrinsx, delivers a practical leadership playbook built on one core premise: leadership works best when it aligns with the intrinsic values that shape how people think, communicate, and perform. This 288-page guide translates the Ntrinsx Colors methodology into real-world leadership practices that team leaders can apply immediately.
Designed for team leaders as a companion to the Ntrinsx leadership learning modules and My Team dashboard, the book moves beyond theory and into personalized application. It equips leaders to understand how team members handle stress, conflict, communication, feedback, and development—and how those differences directly affect engagement and performance.
Ntrinsx teaches the skills leaders need in context with how those skills relate differently to people who have different values and beliefs. In other words, the Ntrinsx Learning methodology is personalized.
Understanding People This is where it starts – understanding how a person’s intrinsic values (their Colors) form the way they process information. That’s what drives their behavior.
Communication People communicate in a way that is consistent with their values. Knowing the language of Colors, you can relate to their intent – not just the words they use.
Conflict & Stress Conflict causes stress. Stress escalates conflict. Respectful conflict is good. But unhealthy conflict, which results when people disrespect each other’s values, can erode productivity and damage relationships.
Change It’s inevitable, necessary and healthy. Understanding how people naturally deal with change based on their values is key in managing through change.
Effective Meetings They’re necessary, but they can also destroy productivity. Understanding who should be in a meeting and how to manage the meeting lifecycle is key.
TEAMtalk TEAM BUILDER
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A video based microlearning platform for team meetings, lunch-and-learns, and events. Short videos are designed to inspire engaging group conversations, giving people the opportunity to be heard on a variety of topics that impact team performance. TEAMtalk categories include:
Team Leadership This module teaches the full range of leadership principles from understanding how teams function, to engagement, motivation, inspiration, coaching, setting expectations and giving feedback, accountability, and performance management.
Team Culture What respect means, interpreting our Colors, how shadows misrepresent our intent.
Communication How we communicate with each other and what we listen for based on our Colors.
Conflict Understanding our conflict style, working with seemingly difficult people.
Coaching How do you want to be coached?
Team Management Engagement – One size does not fit all; Nobody likes change – Or do they?
Priorities Setting them, managing to them.
A COMPLETE LEARNING SYSTEM
All team development content is designed for in-person and virtual delivery.
Participant training aids for all modules can be downloaded free from the included learning library, including participant guides, assessments, action plans, forms and other informational materials.
An illustrated Facilitator Guide is available for certified Ntrinsx Facilitators. For more information about on-location or virtual facilitation for your team, or to learn more about becoming a Certified Ntrinsx Facilitator contact support@ntrinsx.com or call (314) 594-4300.
LEADERS NEED GOOD TOOLS
Architects can’t design efficient buildings without good tools. Engineers can’t develop technology without good tools. Doctors can’t keep people healthy without good tools. Leaders need good tools to align the values of their team members with the requirements of the work they do. Ntrinsx embeds a comprehensive set of leadership tools in an all-inclusive platform that integrates with enterprise applications you already have.
Understanding Your People – This is where it has to start
Patented assessment establishes the foundation for a culture positioned for sustained performance. It relates a person’s core values, those they are born with, to predictable behavioral traits. While the assessment takes only about 5 minutes, it is extremely accurate its comprehensive profile report, which is immediately available via the Ntrinsx Social Intelligence dashboard.
Leadership Effectiveness – What’s working, what’s not
This self assessment for leaders establishes a baseline for development. Leaders reflect on their own sense of readiness to deal with their leadership challenges, and the engagement level of their team members.
The results of anonymous leadership effectiveness assessments can be aggregated and summarized to inform planning and facilitation of leadership development priorities.
Team Well-being – Monitors your team’s engagement capacity
Charts the aggregated well-being scores for all their team members’ for all 10 well-being factors that affect team performance and allows team leaders to journal their observations regarding team interactions. Synchronizes all trends and journal entries with time to align the team’s engagement level to key events that may have either a positive or negative impact on performance.
Conflict Style – How we deal with it
What many people don’t realize is that we all deal with conflict in our own unique way based on our intrinsic values. Just as our Colors predict our normal behavior when we are in esteem, the way we behave while under stress due to conflict is also predictable.
This assessment helps people understand the unique characteristics of their own stress behavior and recognize when colleagues are operating under stress. It also reveals the prominent behaviors associated with Colors that are different than our own that are most likely to trigger conflict.
Shadows – How others see us
Shadow behavior is different than conflict induced stress behavior. We all cast shadows, which does not imply that our behavior is wrong. It means that we are likely being interpreted by others through a different lens based on values that are different than our own.
When teams learn to recognize shadows, they replace assumption with curiosity, reframe differences as predictable and valuable, and learn to leverage the unique perspective that others bring to any situation.
ASSESSMENTS THAT GUIDE ALIGNMENT
Sustained performance comes when a person’s work aligns with their values. You need to know what those values are before you can effectively lead that person.
AI VIRTUAL COACH
With an embedded AI engine at it’s core, Ntrinsx is intelligent and insightful. The Ntrinsx AI Virtual Coach understands all of the modern management frameworks. It understands the principals of the Ntrinsx Social Intelligence model. And, it will even apply your organizations HR policies to guide management advice.
AI AGENTS
Outlook Add-in Agent reads the body of your email and advises on how to modify it to suit the values of the email’s recipient list – and it corrects grammatical and spelling errors while its at it.
Sessions Agent consists of a series of successive prompt results that a member choses to save as a template. Saved sessions can be recalled and their parameters can be changed to suit different purposes or context.
WELL-BEING MONITOR
Our values play a critical role in how our work impacts our well-being – and it is different for everybody. Ntrinsx gives team members an anonymous voice to express how they are feeling about their work and it alerts team leaders when something is not quite right. Why is that important? Well, you can’t fix it if you don’t know it’s broken.
TEAM MANAGEMENT DASHBOARD
Ntrinsx can automatically generate a dashboard for team leaders. The dashboard lists all of the managers team members and their Colors. it also provides a comprehensive view of the Team Well-being monitor and the Virtual Coaching Sessions panel. The Virtual Coach already knows the manager’s team members’ Colors, which it uses to personalize its advice.
TEAM DEVELOPMENT LEARNNG LIBRARY
Ntrinsx comes with a comprehensive learning library, which is available to all members at no additional charge. The library provides reference documents as well as training aids for the entire catalog of learning modules, including PowerPoints, worksheets, action plans, and various tools referenced by the modules.
Facilitated Learning Modules Ntrinsx comes with a comprehensive set of modules, each of which includes PowerPoint slides (for Certified Facilitators), Worksheets, and Action Plans. Also included are a number of other articles and training aids.
TEAMtalks A video based microlearning platform for team meetings, lunch-and-learns, and events. Short videos are designed to inspire engaging group conversations, giving people the opportunity to be heard on a variety of topics that impact team performance.
INTEGRATES WITH YOUR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
Ntrinsx provides a number of tools to integrate member’s Colors with other enterprise applications such as HRIS, Payroll, LMS, etc. Functions within Ntrinsx can be automated to keep the Ntrinsx database aligned as people join or leave the organization.
SECURITY IS BUILT IN
Comprehensive security measures are woven into the Ntrinsx platform to protect all members from potential attacks. Guardrails prevent unauthorized access. Multiple provisions protect the login process, including phishing protection, multi-factor authentication, and support for Single Sign-On.
FREE FAMILY ACCOUNT
All members of an organization’s Ntrinsx account can create a separate account with free assessments for their family members. It’s a great perk, one that also benefits the organization because people who apply Ntrinsx with family members, who they know most intimately, understand and relate to the values of their coworkers more naturally.
WORKS IN 104 LANGUAGES
Members can change the language of all the Ntrinsx functions simply by selecting the language of their choice. People can take the assessment in their native language and others in the account can review their information in a different language.
EXPERIENCE NTRINSX WITH YOUR TEAM
Ntrinsx is used by corporations, schools, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and families around the world to foster a culture of respect. The best way to evaluate Ntrinsx is to try it for yourself. Complete the request form and we will create a free trial account with 3 free assessments for your team.
Ask for the About Ntrinsx Whitepaper Find out what others use Ntrinsx for. Learn about the Social Intelligence theories underlying Ntrinsx. Get an overview of the Ntrinsx learning topics. And, review validation results.
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