Stop being misunderstood by teammates

A personal user guide shows how you communicate, collaborate, and deal with stress, feedback, and change.

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Personal user guide

See how personality shapes communication and collaboration within your sports team

Compare personality profiles within your sports team to see where you naturally align and where extra coordination helps.

2 profilesyou compare across the same five personality dimensions
5 dimensionsshow you overlap, distance and discussion points for each dimension
Personal User GuidePersonal user guide
Ryan Baker + Sophie MartinPersonal user guide · Live comparison
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OppositesSimilar
ConventionalProgressive
FlexibleFocused
QuietDominant
CompetitiveCompassionate
UndisturbableSensitive

Highlights & comments

Save what truly matters within your sports team

Capture exactly which passages, agreements and points of attention matter within your sports team, with private highlights and notes in context.

Privateonly you can see your highlights and comments.
In contextyour highlights and comments stay attached to the exact passage they refer to.
Personal User GuideHighlights & comments
Personal guide for Jack DavisCollaboration and communication

Jack works best with clear context and room to think before responding.

So make concrete agreements about ownership, planning and the desired outcome.

Follow up on this in our next one-on-one.

Transformations

Paid feature

Make difficult messages land better within your sports team

Adapt a difficult message within your sports team to one person's or the whole group's personality, so it lands better.

1 creditper personal transformation.
3 creditsper team transformation.
Personal User GuideTransformations
Make a message less intense for EmmaEmma is emotional.

Prompt

You keep missing agreements and it is frustrating.
84/2000
CancelTransform (1 credit)
Original

You keep missing agreements and it is frustrating.

Transformed

Can we align clear agreements so we both know what is expected and when?

You have 4 transformations leftHistory
Input, output and history in one flow

Team guide

Paid feature

See where personalities clash or reinforce each other within your sports team

Bring personalities, differences and points of attention together within your sports team, so you can immediately see where alignment is needed.

5 dimensionsshow you each member’s position and your team’s spread.
2 perspectivesgive you the team spread and individual positions in one view.
Personal User GuideTeam guide
Team guide of Demo TeamDemo Team
DistinctAligned
ConventionalProgressive
FlexibleFocused
QuietDominant
CompetitiveCompassionate
UndisturbableSensitive

4 members

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PDF export

Paid feature

Use a polished PDF wherever you need your guide within your sports team

Export the guides and Gap views that matter within your sports team as clear PDFs that are easy to print for preparation, conversations or sharing afterwards.

3 document typesexport personal guides, team guides and Gap views in the same clear layout.
1 clicktakes you from the live guide to a shareable, print-ready PDF.
Personal User GuidePDF export
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Personal user guideGuide for Jack Davis
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A practical overview of communication, collaboration and behaviour under pressure.

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Risk analysis

Paid feature

Recognise when behaviour goes too far under pressure within your sports team

Recognise which behaviour may become less flexible under pressure within your sports team, both overall and for each personality dimension.

7 zonesshow the progression from low to present and high risk.
Overall + 5one total view and an explanation for each team member’s dimensions.
Personal User GuideRisk analysis
Risk analysis for Sophie MartinCoach view · behaviour under pressure
Overall riskHigh risk
ConventionalLow riskProgressive
FlexibleLow riskFocused
QuietHigh riskDominant
CompetitiveLow riskCompassionate
UndisturbableLow riskSensitive

Assessments

Paid feature

Use a personality assessment to understand new dynamics within your sports team

Invite new people within your sports team to a secure assessment and immediately see how their personality fits.

1 linklets you invite candidates without requiring an account or team access.
7 daysduring which you can use the personal assessment link.
Personal User GuideAssessments
Candidate assessmentFor the Growth Team
Valid for 7 days
Candidate
First nameLast nameEnter one or more email addresses...
Invite
After completionCandidate visible in team context

Use the results as a starting point for selection, onboarding, or a deeper conversation.

Gap view

Paid feature

Turn differences into practical conversations within your sports team

Compare two people within your sports team from a neutral perspective and turn similarities and differences into practical agreements.

2 peopleyou compare without making either person’s perspective the default.
5 dimensionsshow you distance, overlap and practical coaching questions.
Personal User GuideGap view
Gap view: Ryan and SophieSee where two team members align, complement each other, or may misunderstand one another — without making either person's perspective the default.
Demo Team
First team member
Ryan Baker
Second team member
Sophie Martin
OppositesSimilar
Ryan and Sophie are clearly different. That does not have to be a problem: their styles can be complementary. Your task is to surface where their assumptions diverge and turn those insights into practical working agreements.
Ryan is undisturbable, Sophie is sensitive
UndisturbableSensitive
Questions you could ask:

How do you recognize the difference between Ryan's stress response and Sophie's?

Research on sports teams

Team chemistry is more than a feeling

Research on cohesion, communication and team interventions shows which social processes matter alongside individual talent.

46

studies found a moderate-to-large relationship between cohesion and performance in sport.

Meta-analysis of 164 effect sizes from research on sports teams and individual sports.

Carron et al. meta-analysis · 2002
150

effect sizes showed that communication quality was more strongly related to team performance than communication frequency.

Meta-analysis covering 9,702 participants and both cognitive and action-oriented team tasks.

Marlow et al. meta-analysis · 2018
15

articles in a meta-analysis showed that team-building interventions can strengthen cohesion in sports teams.

The largest effects appeared among 15- to 20-year-olds, collegiate teams and interventions lasting more than two weeks.

Kwon meta-analysis · 2024

These studies did not evaluate Personal User Guide and do not guarantee sporting success. They provide context for the role of cohesion, communication quality and team development.

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Team sports become a lot less frustrating and a lot more effective when you understand how your teammates operate. With Personal User Guide, you can read someone’s personality like it’s their playbook. You see how they communicate under pressure, what motivates them, how they build trust, and what might throw them off.

By comparing their guide to your own, you get a clear picture of your natural team chemistry and where friction might occur. No more guessing each other’s moves, misreading intentions, or wasting energy on misalignment. Instead, you gain instant insight into who your teammates really are and how to play, train, and win together more effectively.

Whether you're welcoming a new player or strengthening an existing squad, Personal User Guide helps teams perform with clarity, empathy, and real connection.