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Begin your “4-D Development Process” on this website with a “Team Development Assessment”. We have found that these 15-minute on-line processes are the best way to introduce your team 4-D Systems. Go to the “Assessments” tab on the right to learn more.
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 on the right shows the progress that recurrent Team Development Assessments (TDAs) stimulated in 200 NASA project and engineering teams.
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"Charlie Pellerin invented a way for team members to achieve superior business performance and in the process live richer and more compassionate lives. By teaching us how to understand our customer's mindset and then to authentically shape our offering in response, he helped us win three major competitive proposals worth $9 billion."
- Greg Davidson, Director of Capture and Proposal Operations, Northrop Grumman Space Technology
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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: Download the Word file “Becoming a 4-D Network Provider” and follow the instructions to receive your “Assessment Dashboard”.
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.
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Ever wondered how you and your team stack up against the very best at NASA? Through this book, you can dare to find out. But more importantly, if you (like me) didn't like the answer to this question, what would you do about it?I have felt the power of Charlie's technology. It offers not only candid feedback, but also the tools to make real and measurable improvement. That it's presented using colorful examples and an easy reading style makes it all the more compelling.
- Tim Barnett, founder, Caledonia Wealth Management, Ltd.
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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.
Becoming a Preferred 4-D Provider
These are the benefits of being a Preferred Provider:
- We highlight you on our web-site; and
- 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.
These are routes to preferred status:
- Attend a three–day 4-D Workshop as an observer;
- Complete all 4-D on-line “Learning Tools;”
- Put serious effort into staffing a 4-D capability;
- Have strong recommendations from other preferred 4-D providers; and/or
- 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.
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This book is an extraordinary guide to how to build effective teams to solve technical problems. The insights, based on years of experience in building teams for NASA, reveal a deep understanding of how technical people interact and can be motivated to work more effectively. Any organization where success requires a motivated technical staff will benefit from this readable book.
- Dr. Len Fisk, NASA Head of Space Science, 1985-1992
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Nothing will convince you of the effectiveness of these brief and potent tools like experiencing them. Visit our list of Preferred 4-D Network Providers and contact one for a free introductory TDA or IDA, or click here and we will assign one for you. They will either provide one assessment themselves or refer you to another provider who better fits your sitaution of country, language or industry.
Team Development Assessments (TDAs)
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 we equate with team working efficiency.
Individual Development Assessments (IDAs)
TDAs measure the fifth force, “team social context,” that drives collective behavior by measuring team behavioral norms. IDAs are parallel instruments, measuring individuals’ behaviors, and thus their effect on team (and family) social context.
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Dr. Pellerin knows how NASA works from long experience within the organization, and years of collaboration with the agency from outside. What he has learned about how NASA puts together teams to attain out-of-this-world goals will help you and your organization achieve your goals.
- Dr. Michael D. Griffin, NASA Administrator, 2005-2009
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Workshops
Delivering hundreds of 4-D workshops, we learned many important things. Here are two. First, the optimum workshop duration is three-days—anything less is far less effective. Next, because of the power of context, only workshops for intact teams have lasting results. Learn more about workshops below.
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.
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The compelling thing about Charlie Pellerin’s 4-D System is that it works. As a senior NASA leader, I witnessed a literal transformation as the 4-D system took root in our culture. In How NASA Builds Teams, Dr. Pellerin tells the 4-D story with concrete examples and clear analysis. I endorse this book in the strongest possible terms. However, what matters most is how the book’s “4-D System” has enhanced the lives and careers of thousands of practitioners."
- Rex D. Geveden, Former NASA Chief Engineer
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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
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Charlie Pellerin, using extensive, real-world examples, has developed the “4-D” process, providing deep insight into team performance. His book contains tools, attitudes, and habits to improve toward greatness. I find Charlie’s ideas persuasive and his explanations extremely clear. I strongly endorse this book. I believe the reader will find it entertaining as well as a wonderful approach to forge a more successful team. When I developed GPS, I wish it had been available to me.
- Dr. Brad Parkinson, first Program Director and Chief Architect of the Global Positioning System (GPS)
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