This guide covers information about the Pair Perspective report (within the Perspective tool) and also covers how you can have a conversation using this report.
What is the Pair Perspective?
The Pair Perspective view is one of the four reports that you can access with our Perspective tool (read more about the tool here).
This report is specifically geared to help two team members compare their working styles and understand how to collaborate better based on their similarities and differences.
This report helps with:
Building trust with your colleague
Understanding their working style and adjusting for differences accordingly
Getting insights into your collective blindspots
Usually, team members would use this report
To get to know a new team member
To understand the working style of an existing team member
To take the first step toward understanding friction between two team members
NOTE: Pair Perspective requires you to be one of the team members being paired. Pairing up two team members is not possible. Please ask your team members to pair with each other and share the report with you if needed!
How to access Pair Perspective
You can easily access Pair Perspective by selecting "Perspective" from the left nav menu and then clicking on a team member's name under "Pair Perspective".
If you are a team manager, you will see an additional pop-up where you can either Pair with the team member or access the Manager 1:1 report.
How to have a conversation using the Pair Perspective report
Once you have paired with a team member, there are two main things to focus on
What are our main differences and similarities? How have(or will) they impacted our work together?
Pick out areas where you would like to collectively make a change.
Find interesting differences, and talk about how you can turn those differences into complementary strengths to leverage in your work relationships
Find similarities, and talk about how you can leverage being on the same wavelength, but also ensure that you don’t have a shared blindspot
The goal of the conversation is to understand each other better and support each other better as a team.
Please reach out to us at coaching@valence.co if you have any questions. Happy teaming!
