You want to give your team a shared language for how they work

This isn't something more tact can fix. Each person works the way they'd want to be worked with, and everyone is wired differently. Nobody has said that out loud, so the team guesses, usually with a copy of themselves.

You already have the real answer. After each person finished, a one-page trading card built from their results landed in their inbox. Ask everyone to bring theirs.

The card names their working style. In their own words, it says how they like to communicate, how they decide, and what builds or breaks trust.

Where a pair needs more, open Understanding Styles. Its "Working with [each style]" pages cover the four styles, Accelerator, Analyst, Harmonizer, Pragmatist: how to read each one, build trust, decide, and handle friction.

Thirty minutes, one room, every card on the table.

Minutes 0 to 5: name it. We each work the way we'd want, so today we trade the real instructions out loud. You've been reading each other off a card no one ever handed you.

Minutes 5 to 20: each person shares, then the room reads itself. Go one at a time. Each person reads their own card: their style, and how they like to be worked with.

Then go first on yourself. Before you ask anyone to admit a mis-read, name one of your own: someone you've been managing off your own manual, not theirs. It makes it safe for everyone after.

Then open it up. Whoever works with that person most says how they'd been doing it: "I've been sending you the two-line version." The gap between that and the card is the exercise.

If the room tightens, keep it on the card, not the person. The mis-read is about a card nobody shared, not a flaw in anyone.

Minutes 20 to 30: put every answer in the open, then each person takes one thing home. Go around once. Each person states, in one line, how to work with them, grounded in their card. Write each on the board: tell me who a change affects before you tell me what changed.

Then close on one change each. Going around once more, each person reads one teammate's line off the board and names one thing they'll do differently with that person. "Jules's line says tell her who a change touches first. Next time I hand her one, I start with who it hits."

The team leaves with more than a nice conversation: every person's how-to-work-with-me on the board and one change each person agreed to make. Next time work crosses between two people, they read the real instructions instead of guessing.