Team IQ Rulebook

What Team IQ is

Team IQ trains team craft: how reps read peers, managers, and cross-functional partners inside the pod. Deal IQ trains deal craft with buyers. Both products share one enablement spine, one soft-skill library, and one manager dossier.

Team IQ is not a personality test. We report which skill the rep reached for in which social scene, how often, and whether the fiction reacted well, went quiet, or pushed back.

• Player experience: directed beats (retro forum, 1:1, incident, async compose) with reaction-first feedback.
• Manager experience: focus skills, session drawer, polar debrief chart, episode scrubber, cross-sim when Deal IQ shares a skill ID.
• Klara: sparse coaching lines after beats, not live grade meters during play.

Episodes and scene types

Each episode is a social chapter on a fictional pod (public demo: Relay Platform on room code STEAMIQ).

Scene types (team_social, team_forum, manager_1on1, incident, async, cross_functional) drive rubric expectations: the same skill can score well in one scene and risky in another.

Soft-skill catalog

Twenty-four curated skills from O*NET work styles, grouped for coaching and visualization:

• Discovery and Insight: active listening, critical thinking, analytical thinking, social perceptiveness
• Influence and Communication: persuasion, negotiation, building relationships, presentation
• Drive and Resilience: persistence, initiative, stress tolerance, self-control
• Judgment and Leadership: decisive judgment, accountability, coaching, management of personnel resources
• Adaptability: flexibility, innovation, learning orientation, dependability

Managers assign 3 to 5 focus skills per cohort. Other library skills still score when a beat touches them (incidental scoring).

TeamIQ native axes

Episodes also track pod-native constructs mapped to library proxies: psychological safety, managing up, peer trust repair, values alignment, feedback reception.

Situational fit model

Every scored beat assigns situational fit, not a permanent trait label:

Well matched Right skill for the social moment; peers respond positively.

Risky here Skill useful elsewhere but fragile in this scene type.

Mismatch Wrong tool for the moment; peer reaction marks the gap.

Debrief copy groups evidence by fit band so managers can coach behavior in context, not label reps as "bad at empathy."

Polar chart and signed scores

Debrief and manager dossier use a signed polar chart from -100 to +100:

• Positive bars: constructive use of a skill or group in this episode.
• Negative bars: harmful or mismatched use in context.
• Group view: five O*NET sectors for rollup coaching.
• Skill view: full 24-skill catalog with focus skills highlighted.
• Episode scrubber: compare current episode to prior episode overlay on the same chart.

Frequency counts (well / risky / mismatch uses) appear in provenance rows and manager exports.

Debrief tabs

• Summary: polar chart, focus skill outcomes, growth edge, positive pattern.
• Moments: reaction provenance (what peers did after your move).
• Choices: input provenance (what you typed or selected).
• Skill patterns: fit distribution across scene types.
• Klara: sparse post-beat coaching lines.
• Evidence: export-ready snippets for 1:1 conversations.

Manager workflow

1. Assign Team craft episodes and 3 to 5 focus skills on the enablement path.
2. Review session drawer after each run (provenance tags: input, reaction, engine, Klara).
3. Open debrief polar chart and episode scrubber for delta vs prior episode.
4. Use cross-sim panel when the same skill ID appears in Deal IQ and Team IQ.
5. Roll up Team Chemistry for inside dynamics on the RCC home dashboard.

Team craft lane runs parallel to deal craft on one person record. Approvals and program steps are separate; evidence merges in the dossier.

Public demo links

Marketing page: gameisserious.com/en/products/team-iq