Elaine Moore was one of the senior people on the leadership team – she’d joined Kraton from Arizona Chemical, she’d been with them for 18 years. Elaine knew exactly what tools could help the wider business become the one Kraton, and would improve two key areas of collaboration and ownership in the business at large. Elaine had worked with Thomas International for 15 years and had used the Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) workplace behavioral assessment, extensively.
Elaine knew from her years of experience, the value of the PPA DISC based assessment; how people became self-aware of their behavioral preferences. How they learned to understand that others were not being difficult they simply had a different way of doing things. Using a new framework of talking – the language of DISC – team members could truly embrace each other’s behavioral skills, learn to adapt towards each other and this would engender much deeper colleague trust, collaboration and ownership – exactly what Kraton was looking for.
The decision was made to roll-out the PPA assessment along with Team workshops, globally. In tandem, a Leadership Essentials course which included the PPA assessment, was rolled out two years ago. This course helped leaders in the business discover their strengths in leadership, learn to adjust any personal limitations and recognize what the behaviors they were seeing in others. They then learned how to modify their own behavior for the best outcomes.
Elaine guided the focus and use of the PPA across the globe and the business ran 750 DISC assessments in two years. Each new hire got a de-brief on their results, in-tact teams went through a Teams workshop based on their PPA’s. The focus was collaboration and ownership with a foundation of developing trust.