Read “Things to Think About” to understand what differentiates us from “Others.” Next, launch a free team or individual development assessment by acting on the assessment tab on the right. We have found that these 15-minute on-line processes are the best way to introduce you or your team to 4-D Systems.

Working with teams is the most efficient way to enhance individuals’ leadership effectiveness. This is because you are managing the “fifth force,” the one that governs human behavior, “team social context.” (A “team” is a group of people who interact sufficiently to develop common behavioral norms.) Download the key files for the “Fifth Force” here.

The animation in the center shows the progress that recurrent Team Development Assessments (TDAs) stimulated in 200 NASA project and engineering teams.

Become a 4-D Network Provider if you want to manage the delivery of 4-D services to your team, or clients. Your business relationship with 4-D Systems is that we wholesale on-line assessments to you, that you then sell retail. Our other intellectual property, our workshop slides for example, is free to all.

Step 1: To learn more about the 4-D Network, begin with the on-line Learning Tool, “4-D Network Member’s Overview”.

Step 2: Complete this form to receive your Assessment Management Dashboard (includes a free assessment).

Step 3: Then complete the “Fifth Force” Learning Tool following along with the “Fifth Force” Briefing - White Background PowerPoint slides optimized for printing, or the “Fifth Force” Briefing - Blue Background slides optimized for projection. View manuscript for the "Fifth Force" Briefing

Step 4: Improve your confidence by watching Charlie explain the briefing at “New Client Briefing Videos”.

Step 5: Once you are a 4-D Network Provider, use the “Fifth Force” Briefing - White Background PowerPoint slides or project the “Fifth Force” Briefing - Blue Background slides to engage your teammates or client. Modify the slides as you as like to meet your personal taste. Urge then to initiate a Team Development Assessment (TDA). At this point, we suggest not mentioning 4-D workshops or coaching. Emphasize that TDAs provide a snapshot of his or her team requiring only about 15 minutes online for each participant. They will become curious about other 4-D processes after they experience the TDA process and report.

The providers in the link below are “preferred.” We know them well and can vouch for their mastery of 4-D Systems processes. Our Preferred 4-D Network Providers dedicate themselves to bringing 4-D processes to the world.

1. We highlight you on our web-site; and
2. More importantly, we give you referrals of web registrants, according to your geographical location and availability.

We confer “Preferred” status when we can assure potential clients that these providers are exceptional 4-D service providers.

1. Attend a three–day 4-D Workshop as an observer;
2. Complete all 4-D on-line “Learning Tools;”
3. Put serious effort into staffing a 4-D capability;
4. Have strong recommendations from other preferred 4-D providers; and/or
5. Build trusting relationships with 4-D principals.

In other words, demonstrate to us through your actions that you both embody and can effectively provide 4-D services to clients.

Team and Individual Development Assessments (TDAs & IDAs)

Simply put, these are the most effective performance enhancement (and risk reduction) tools in existence. Watch the animation on the left to see the effect of recurrent TDAs on team performance. The numbers are assessment scores, which equate with team working efficiency. You can review the language of a TDA at “TDA click-through”. You can review a report at “ABC Team’s TDA Report”. Similarly, you can review the language of an IDA at “IDA click-through”. You can review a report at “John Smith’s IDA Report”.

Nothing demonstrates the effectiveness of a 4-D Team Development Assessment (TDA) like experiencing one.

• Option 1: Click on “Preferred 4-D Network Providers” and request a TDA for your team (or an IDA for yourself) from one of them. (Providers in North America and India frequently provide a free one-time introductory TDA, including end-to-end management of the process.)
• Option 2: Click on “Give me my Assessment Management Dashboard”, to request your free 4-D Assessment Management Dashboard. It provides an easy way for you to self-manage your TDAs (or Individual Development Assessments (IDAs)). Your dashboard includes one free Assessment and the ability for you to waive our fees in specified circumstances. We otherwise invoice you for (non-fee-waived) Assessments that you initiate, after we deliver the assessment report. (Note: If all you run is your free Assessment that is fine with us. We will never bother you to buy Assessments. Moreover, NASA Civil Servants have unlimited free assessments.)

Step 1: Complete the “4-D Workshop Learning Tool”

Step 2: Go to “Workshop Assets” to download workshop slides and workbook:

Step 3: Go to “Workshop Videos” to hear Charlie explaining the first 100 or so workshop slides in videos in 10-slide segments.

One-day event: If you want to provide a one-day event for unrelated people at, for example, a PMI event, consider using “Introduction to 4-D Systems” slides and workbook.

A Speech: If you want to give a speech on the 4-D System, please download “Fifth Force” Briefing - Blue Background.

We also offer a one-day “Practicum” as a follow-on to our three-day workshops.

The “Context Shifting Worksheet (CSW)” launches you into the wonderful world of context management. When I worked as a consultant, I clients only called me when they had a problem that was unsolvable as they had defined it. I recalled Einstein’s famous quote, “You cannot solve a problem with the level of thinking that created it.” I say, “You cannot solve a problem in the context that created it.”

• Unfair treatment:
  – Restored $3M of profit unfairly withheld profit (HNBT, page 122)
• Broken relationship with my customer:
  – Moved the profit pool for a $1B contract from 67% to 96% (HNBT, page xix).
• Creating Competitive Advantage:
  – “A Proposal Team Prepares for Orals”
• You can download free CSWs from NASAteambuilding.com
  – PDF format