Team IQ

What Team IQ is

Team IQ trains soft skills in social context: how reps read peers, managers, and cross-functional partners inside the pod. Deal IQ trains deal qualification with buyers. Both share one enablement spine, one soft-skill library, and one person record for the manager.

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 and an interactive pod org chart.
• Manager experience: focus skills, session evidence, soft skill map and culture pulse on the team home, path suggestions, and cross-sim when Deal IQ shares a skill.
• Klara: sparse coaching lines after beats, not live grade meters during play.

World engine

Team IQ runs on an arc-agnostic engine. Managers define the world; players load the stored arc at runtime.

• Pick a genre (enterprise sales pod, startup squad, services team, and more).
• Set company context, difficulty, and 3 to 5 focus skills.
• Generate a custom fiction arc (cast, episodes, beats) persisted per room.
• Launch a join code; scoring, memory, relationship state, and debrief charts resolve from that arc.

Season 1 episodes (Ep1-Ep8)

Each episode is a social chapter on a fictional pod. Public demo: Relay Platform on room code STEAMIQ. Canon order follows the story spine.

Beat types

Episodes use 3 to 6 beats. Each beat tags 1 to 3 skills. Fit scores are deterministic, never LLM-owned.

1. Choice - pick a directed move (listen vs fix, own vs deflect).
2. Dialogue - reply to a peer or manager in the room.
3. Compose - write Slack or async with clear owner, date, and tone.
4. Observe - read the room before you speak or act.

Loop: narrator open, optional artifact, beat, NPC reaction, repeat, narrator close. Max 2 new artifacts per episode.

Soft skill catalog (24)

Curated O*NET work styles from softSkillLibrary.ts. Managers assign 3 to 5 focus skills. Other library skills still score when a beat touches them.

• Discovery & Insight: Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Social Perceptiveness
• Influence & Communication: Persuasion, Negotiation, Building Relationships, Empathetic Support, Service Orientation, Written Expression, Conflict Resolution
• Drive & Resilience: Persistence, Resilience, Initiative, Attention to Detail, Time Management
• Judgment & Leadership: Decision Making, Decisive Judgment, Accountability, Objective Setting, Coaching
• Adaptability: Flexibility, Active Learning, Creative Thinking

Pod-native axes

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

Situational fit bands

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."

Scoring and debrief

Debrief and the manager dossier use a signed polar chart from -100 to +100, with provenance managers can open in a 1:1.

• 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 a prior overlay on the same chart.

Debrief tabs

• Summary: category overview, 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 coaching conversations.

Facilitator checklist

Use this before and after a Team IQ session. Prefer numbered checks over a marketing pitch.

1. Create or assign the room; set genre, difficulty, and 3 to 5 focus skills.
2. Brief players: situational fit bands, not trait labels; Klara is sparse coaching, not a live grade.
3. Confirm episode intent (assess snapshot vs practice arc). Pilot default: Ep3 assess, then Ep3-Ep4 practice.
4. During play, watch manager live strip for progress; do not interrupt mid-beat.
5. After play, open Summary: category overview, focus-skill fit, polar chart, growth edge.
6. Review Moments and Choices provenance with the rep in a 1:1.
7. Decide rematch or next episode from focus-skill gaps; log the path step on the person record.
8. When Deal IQ shares a skill, open cross-sim on the same dossier before coaching.

Try it

Live rooms and sample debriefs on production.

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