Understand the WethosAI Platform and leverage our features for success!
Table of Contents
Licenses
Ethos of We
The Science
Leveraging Wethos AI
How NOT to Use
WethosXO
Unlocking Insights
- Assess
- Gain Immediate Insights
- Enhance Interactions
- Optimize Time & Collaboration
- Deep Dive Into Teams
- Create Data-Driven Teams
- Monitor Organizational Health
The Wethos Way
Resources
THE ETHOS OF WE
We quantify the character and culture of individuals, teams, and organizations to unlock potential through radical team cohesion. This is the Ethos of We, this is the Wethos Way.
Boost Team Performance with Science
Wethos AI brings over 30 years of behavioral science research to your fingertips with AI. Just in time coaching and personalized insights through workflow integrations promotes ongoing team engagement, productivity, and cohesion.
Demystify Your Team in Minutes
In under 7-minutes, access the Wethos Styles of each person on your team. Gain collective insights about people’s strengths and natural behaviors and reveal how these interactions power your team dynamic.
Build Psychological Trust
Utilize the Wethos AI Platform to provide transparency into team interactions in a way that highlights the strengths and contributions of each team member. Spend more energy on collaborative problem-solving and less time navigating interpersonal conflicts.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND WETHOS AI
Wethos AI was developed as a behavioral assessment focused on team performance. In the early 80s, most tools were based on identifying personal characteristics and were more descriptive by design. These were helpful, but the WethosAI Team believed a predictive tool for team interactions could prove more useful. The goal was to develop an assessment with exceptional internal consistency—one that would help individuals and teams perform at a higher level by recognizing their default behaviors and gaining awareness of how those behaviors influence themselves and others.
The empirical research behind Wethos identified four highly consistent activities that impact team performance. Based on this research, the Wethos assessment analyzes 84 items that identify how people naturally behave within the four areas of team performance, and presents actionable, objective feedback.
The results demonstrate an excellent internal consistency of reliability with a high degree of construct validity. The results from Exploratory Factor Analyses (EFA), Multi-Trait Multi-Method (MTMM) Matrix, and Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA), all strongly support the conclusion that Wethos demonstrates excellent validity.
LEVERAGING WETHOS AI
Use Cases
- Transformational need
- Mergers & acquisitions
- High growth businesses
- Major organizational changes
- Scaling operations efficiently
- Global & cultural integrations
- Team dynamics and operational efficiency
- Lack of team cohesion
- Communication barriers
- Remote/hybrid work challenges
- Misalignment of strengths/tasks
- Performance management
- Productivity issues
- DEI Efforts
- Employee engagement decline
- High turnover
- Leadership change
- Professional development
- Innovation stagnation
HOW NOT TO USE WETHOS AI
- To Judge
- To Limit Contributions
- To Limit Growth
- To Excuse Neglect or Non-Participation
- To Discriminate or Marginalize
- To Create a Hierarchical Structure
- To Enforce Rigid Role Definitions
- To Make Personnel Decisions
- To Undermine Personal Accountability
WETHOS AI FEATURES
WETHOSXO
Individual benefits
- Understand strengths and natural behaviors
- Predict where individuals will excel
- Identify growth opportunities
Team benefits
- Address team needs
- Understand individual & team strengths
- Build high performing teams
Leader benefits
- Build strengths-based teams quickly
- Improve decision making
- Foster healthy relationships
Org Benefits
- Improve workplace culture
- Reduce turnover and improve engagement
- Enhance operational efficiency
Your Dedicated Wethos AI Expert
- An expert on your Wethos Style - uniquely trained on platform data to promote more nuanced communication
- Meticulously tailored to align with individual needs and goals
- Capable of providing insights on team composition, task allocation, strategies for enhancing productivity & more
Anticipate Individual and Team Needs Anywhere, Anytime
UNLOCKING INSIGHTS
A Step by Step Overview
UNLOCKING INSIGHTS: ASSESS 📝
The Scales
The WethosAI Platform operates on the foundation of the Wethos Style, which is characterized by a set of four numbers. These numbers correspond to four distinct scales: Ideas, Relational, Action & Order. Wethos measures each person’s behavioral style across these four scales that are integral to individual and team performance. Once someone has completed the online, 7-minute Wethos assessment, we analyze their responses to identify their default behaviors—the ways they most naturally tend to engage with their team—in each of the four scales. Wethos AI unlocks a comprehensive understanding of one's unique style as defined by these scales, thereby allowing the user to take full advantage of the rest of the Wethos AI Features.
The Scales: Ideas
The Ideas Scale measures how you absorb information and express your thoughts.
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Are they more visionary or practical in their thinking?
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Do they like to summarize their ideas or describe them in a detailed narrative?
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Do they start by asking themselves “what else,” “how to,” or “with what”?
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Do they process ideas by verbalizing them, asking questions, or thinking them through silently?
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Do they move quickly to test ideas, wait until they have built a system to execute, or figure out every detail before implementing?
There are five segment styles on this scale:
The Scales: Relational
The Relational Scale measures how people process and engage interpersonal interactions.
- How apparent must others’ emotions be before a person notices them?
- Do they typically feel or simply observe others’ emotions?
- Are they more inclined to nurture emotions, attempt to manage emotions, or rarely acknowledge emotions?
The Scales: Action
The Action Scale measures how you pursue objectives while considering others involved and the urgency for closure.
- Are they more focused on the achievement of goals or the activities necessary to achieve goals?
- Are they asking “is it done?”, “is everything working?” or “is it working right?”
- Are they more inclined to direct others to achieve their goals, or to take on tasks in recognition of the needs of others?
The Scales: Order
The Order Scale measures how people structure and complete work.
- Do they like following orderly routines and processes, or taking a more creative, flexible approach to the work?
- Are they more hands-on or hands-off when managing performance?
- How complete does a project need to be before they are ready to move on to the next thing?
UNLOCKING INSIGHTS: GAIN IMMEDIATE INSIGHTS 💡
Enjoy personalized insights to gain deeper understanding across the four scales into your natural behaviors, circumstances under which you work best, areas of development and more. Lean on WethosXO to ask specific questions about your style.
Wethos Style
Kinetic View
Scientific View
The Assessment ✏️
At the heart of the WethosAI platform lies our science-backed behavioral assessment. In under 7 minutes, users gain instant insights into their natural behaviors. You can also onboard via LinkedIn or our rapid assessment.
Our Scales ⚖️
WethosAI measures each person’s behavioral style across our core scales that are integral to individual, team and organizational performance: Ideas, Relational, Action & Order
Scientifically Proven 📈
Extensive research indicates high reliability and strong validity for the assessment, as evidenced by Exploratory Factor Analyses, Multi-Trait Multi-Method Matrix, and Confirmatory Factor Analyses.
Interpreting Wethos Styles
Each person’s results appear in one of five segments for each activity, with each segment representing a different behavioral style. With insights from WethosAI, team members can intentionally modify their behavior to move into other segments.
UNLOCKING INSIGHTS: ENHANCING 1:1 INTERACTIONS 👫
Improving the quality of 1:1 interactions can lead to better decision-making and conflict resolution. WethosXO delivers contextual insights into each person's working style, paving the way for healthy conflict resolution and successful interpersonal interactions.
Working Together
A user can run a scenario between any two Wethos Styles to receive specific insights on how they would best work together and tips to avoid potential misunderstandings. They will receive a series of do's and dont's for 5 common workplace scenarios.
UNLOCKING INSIGHTS: OPTIMIZE TIME & COLLABORATION
Smart Calendar Integration Guide
Introduction
In today's fast-paced work environment, effective time management is crucial for success. Back-to-back meetings have become the norm, often leaving little time for preparation or reflection. This guide explores how smart calendar integration can help you optimize your schedule and enhance your collaborative experiences.
Key Features
1. Smart Meeting Insights
Transform your calendar events into more meaningful and impactful sessions with intelligent insights:
- Get visibility into meeting dynamics and participant preferences
- Receive suggestions for structuring discussions effectively
- Learn best practices for engaging with different communication styles
- Access tips for preparing relevant meeting materials
2. Time Analytics Dashboard
Gain a comprehensive understanding of your time allocation:
- Visual breakdown of meetings, focus work, and available time
- Intuitive interface for quick schedule analysis
- Identification of schedule patterns and potential inefficiencies
- Tools for optimizing your daily and weekly calendar
3. Collaboration Analytics
Understand your collaboration patterns to improve workplace relationships:
- Track recurring meeting patterns
- Identify key collaborators and time invested in different types of meetings
- Review weekly collaboration insights
- Make data-driven decisions about time allocation
Benefits
Enhanced Collaboration
- Build stronger professional relationships through informed interactions
- Improve meeting preparation and participation
- Create more effective and engaging discussion environments
- Develop better understanding of collaborative dynamics
Increased Productivity
- Identify and eliminate inefficient time usage patterns
- Create dedicated spaces for deep focus work
- Reduce cognitive load from context switching
- Make data-driven decisions about calendar management
- Balance meeting time with individual work effectively
Better Work-Life Balance
- Set healthy boundaries around your time
- Optimize your schedule for both productivity and wellbeing
- Reduce meeting overload through smart scheduling
- Create sustainable working patterns that support both professional and personal goals
Getting Started
- Connect your Google Workspace Calendar
- Review your personalized dashboard
- Set up your preferences for time analysis
- Begin using the insights to optimize your schedule
Best Practices
- Regularly review your time analytics to identify patterns
- Use meeting insights to prepare more effectively
- Balance collaborative time with focus work
- Make incremental adjustments to your schedule based on data
- Set aside time for preparation and reflection between meetings
Tips for Success
- Start small with schedule optimizations
- Use insights to inform meeting strategies
- Review weekly reports to track improvements
- Adjust your approach based on collaboration patterns
- Share best practices with your team
Remember, effective time management is an ongoing journey. Use these tools and insights to continuously refine your approach to calendar management and collaboration.
UNLOCKING INSIGHTS: TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO TEAM DYNAMICS
Through the lens of your Wethos Style, investigate how you interact with your Team(s) using Team Snapshots, Bias Detection, Behavior Groupings & Mitigation Techniques. Use WethosXO to ask questions related to the team, task allocation, and collaboration techniques, to name a few.
Any team can thrive and any team can fall into dysfunction. Protect against dysfunction by embracing real time WethosXO™ coaching to transform group dynamics, communication, and performance.
Wethos AI understands where your team’s strengths will benefit the end goal and where biases or blind spots may become obstacles. Wethos AI delivers a unified, resilient, and high-performing team culture.
My Team 
The My Team page is someone’s core team members that interact most often - usually on a daily basis. This view allows team members to get to know one another on a deep level and understand how to maximize individual strengths. If a new team member joins, they can walk in prepared on their first day.
Project Teams
Best used for cross-functional projects, side projects, and specialized tasks. Individuals can create any number of project teams and elect to make them public or private*. This is a great way to test out various team compositions and see how the insights change.
Team Views
Team Insights
Team Biases
- Allows for identification and mitigation of team biases that may interfere with productivity
- Provides in the moment coaching to mitigate team biases
- Facilitates objective and fact-based decisions without the influence of bias
Cognitive Diversity Score & Outliers
- Allows for identification and mitigation of team biases that may interfere with productivity
- Provides in the moment coaching to mitigate team biases
- Facilitates objective and fact-based decisions without the influence of bias
UNLOCKING INSIGHTS: CREATE DATA-DRIVEN TEAMS
Need a cross-functional team for a specialized project? Wethos's Team Composition algorithm offers a streamlined solution by leveraging a digital dashboard that analyzes both technical skills and behavioral insights, enabling the quick formation of teams. Not sure where to start on the kick-off meeting? Ask WethosXO.
Team Composition Using AI
The Wethos AI platform uses predictive AI to simplify team creation, enabling managers to customize teams based on project needs, size, and skill balance. It offers two curated team options for comparison and detailed analysis, streamlining the formation of cross-functional teams aligned with project goals.
Step 1: Select Project Teams & then Recommend Team 
Step 2: Fill in the fields & weight Hard Skills vs. Wethos Style importance. Then click Recommend Team. 
Step 3: Toggle between Team A & Team B to see which is the best fit for the project and read the team comparison summary by clicking Comparison Summary.
Step 4: Select your team, decide Public vs. Private, and Create!
UNLOCKING INSIGHTS: MONITOR ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH 🏥
The Comfort Index
The Wethos Comfort Index gives managers insight into their direct report’s comfort levels. Whether a company’s culture encourages a high level of comfort or not, the Comfort Index dynamically calculates a work alignment score from daily task relevance and teamwork feedback. The average of these scores represents the team's (and individuals) overall comfort level. This feature promotes transparency and effective growth opportunities.
We incorporate a myriad of factors when evaluating an employee’s comfort levels: work alignment, workplace fit, and other contextual factors.
Click on an individual to gain further detail into their specific comfort level. We map their comfort across the four scales to better pinpoint where they may not be thriving.
THE WETHOS WAY
