How Forté Works

With Forté, an individual or organization is able to continuously enhance productivity via growth of the interpersonal communication skills of all concerned. The Forté system identifies individual leadership styles, provides interaction reports between individuals to build relationships of trust . . . and through adapting profile updates grow/maintain those relationships. The Forté system is unique in that it provides a lifespan understanding of an individual and/or team, as well as how they can successfully continue to adapt to their life or work environment. Forté facilitates the learning process.

Our clients report many team building programs they have tried failed because the focus was one or two team building sessions versus the lifespan process Forté facilitates. Forté never leaves the individual or team.

To further insure success, every 30 days the Forté Performance Coaching Module develops specific recommendations for each teammate on how to best adapt to top performance models developed by the client/team utilizing their Forté system. The Forté Performance Coaching System has the flexibility to shift the coaching recommendations instantly as conditions warrant. Written suggestions are provided each teammate and Forté Performance Coaching even provides written coaching instructions for each coach to grow their skills as well.

The Forté system is utilized globally. The ultimate goal of the Forté system is to teach individuals and teams their strengths and then how they can become empowered to manage interpersonal performance improvement levels for themselves and the teams of which they are an important part.

The Forté Adapting Profile identifies how an individual has been adapting to their environment over the most recent 30-day period. We learn from experience, and the Forté system documents the learning experience for forward growth.  Forté further captures how an individual or team is adapting to a specific environment, individual, or both. Through the Forté Adapting Update System, the respondent is provided updates on how they are adapting their strengths to their current situation. Additionally, the report provides their current logic style, current stamina level and current goals index. These strengths have a numeric value and can be tracked over time. Tracking the adapting updates is a continuous process that can be utilized in coaching for performance improvement.

The Forté Perceiver Profile shows how that individual is most likely coming across to others at that time. The perceiver profile includes up to four personalized interpersonal communication strategies to most effectively communicate their needs to others over the next 30 days.

Unique to the Forté system is the ability to compare the intensity dimensions of the Primary, Adapting and Perceiver profiles, and to measure tendencies or trends toward high performance, burn-out or rust-out . . . for both individuals and teams.

Individual Forté profile information can be combined to develop a Forté Composite Team Profile for use by teams and other organizations seeking the enhancement of interpersonal and team productivity.  As with the individual, the team composite profiles can be updated every 30 days for measurement and growth through the Forté Performance Coaching System.

The Forté System, which is online, has many applications.  It can profile all employees, spouses and other family members of employees, potential hires, and clients/customers. Frequent applications include::

Team Building (a four modular system)
     1. Individual Strengths
     2. Meeting the Team
     3. Team Problem Solving
     4. Team Empowerment

Communicating to Hire
A complete hiring system to improve retention and productivity by hiring the right individuals the first time.

Performance Coaching
An efficient and effective method to coach any individual to higher levels of performance.  For use by all coaches/managers at any level within an organization.

Executive Communication
Customized applications for retreats, off-sites, etc.