Team Building with the four colours.

PURPOSE OF THIS ACTIVITY.

What are these four colours? Why are these four colours important?

In one of the Michigan State University research, various human traits were linked with the four colours, namely Gold, Green, Orange and Blue. Following activity is developed by studying that research.

So, let me introduce you to these fours colours and their traits.

The traits linked with colour GOLD -

The next colour is -

The traits linked with colour GREEN -

The next colour is -

The traits linked with colour ORANGE -

The next colour is -

This colour is mainly found in HR people. You too would feel it after knowing the traits linked with it.

So,

The answer is

These four colours sound utopian until we know how to use them.

Let me give you an example, imagine you are an HR head and want to help your Project Head or HODs in evaluating the missing pieces in their team. You can create a form on Google Forms or your outsourced form platform for better security. It can look like this.

You can put all these colour traits in separate sections. The measurement tool can be a rating system (1-5) or it can be up to 10 scales according to your need.

The data can reflect on your excel sheet in this format.

You can use the SUM tool for adding all the respective traits.

Finally, you can compute all the details in your sheet.

After studying the data, you can generate results to your respective HODs like this.

Your team colour percentage traits are as follows -

GOLD - 24.24%

(less than optimum) 

GREEN - 26.77%

(more than optimum) 

ORANGE - 24.24%

(less than optimum) 

BLUE - 24.75%

(less than optimum)

There are 22/50 traits lacking in your team

1. Innovation skills
2. Logic
3. Explorer
4. Self-challenging 
5. Organized 
6. Leader
7. Sensible
8. Remember Facts
9. Enjoy Checklists 
10. Set Deadlines 
11. Spontaneous 
12. Optimistic 
13. Stimulation 
14. Multi-Tasking skills 
15. Seeks Variety
16. Out of Box thinking
17. Seeks Flexibility 
18. Sincere
19. Compassionate 
20. Imaginative 
21. Communicative 
22. Ability to think widely

Hope this research helps.

Suppose, you get a scenario like this.

What will you do next as HR?

There are two ways to deal with such a scenario.

1) You can use a psychometric test as per the organization needs like in this scenario, we hire employees having more of ORANGE traits to balance the team scenario.

2) You can train your employees through your AI platforms or learning modules the following traits. It can be videos, audios or even PDFs which helps employees gaining these skills. Secondly, you can dedicate activities linked with ORANGE traits.

Here we come to the end of this article. I hope this article helps........:)