# Woosah Teams

> Woosah Teams helps managers understand the people they lead. Every team member takes a short work-style assessment and gets a plain-language profile. Managers see their whole team overlaid on one page: where work styles cluster, where they contrast, where the team has blind spots, and how to lead each person the way they work best.

Status: pre-launch. Woosah Teams is being built now. People who join the early-access list get free access for a limited period at launch. There are no customers, ratings, or published pricing yet.

Founders: Laura Farkas and Billy Gozum. Their core ideas: "You are not your team." "Almost every people problem is a management problem." "Empathy isn't a soft skill. It's the method."

## Product

- [How it works](https://woosahteams.com/how-it-works/): Assessment, individual profile, team overlay, and guidance, step by step.
- [For managers](https://woosahteams.com/for-managers/): How managers and team leads use it.
- [For HR and People Ops](https://woosahteams.com/for-hr/): Retention, onboarding, and team health.
- [FAQ](https://woosahteams.com/faq/): Common questions about the product, privacy, early access, and pricing.
- [Early access](https://woosahteams.com/early-access/): Join the early-access list.
- [About](https://woosahteams.com/about/): The founders and the story behind the company.

## Guides

- [Your team is a design problem: a manager's guide to design thinking](https://woosahteams.com/guides/your-team-is-a-design-problem/): How to lead a team with design thinking: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test, applied to the people you manage, with steps for each stage.

## Articles

- [Hire people, not résumés: what to look for beyond the interview](https://woosahteams.com/blog/hire-people-not-resumes/): A résumé shows what someone has done, not how they work. How to hire for the role and the team you have, then onboard people so they stay.
- [Opposite work styles: how to turn friction into balance](https://woosahteams.com/blog/opposite-work-styles/): Opposite work styles cause friction when nobody can see them. Once you name them, they balance each other. Here is how managers make that shift.
- [You are not your team: the mistake most new managers make](https://woosahteams.com/blog/you-are-not-your-team/): Most new managers assume their team works the way they do. Here is how to notice that habit and lead each person the way they actually work.

## Glossary

- [Communication styles at work](https://woosahteams.com/glossary/communication-styles-at-work/): Communication styles at work are the different ways people prefer to share and receive information on the job, such as written or spoken, detailed or high-level, direct or diplomatic, immediate or with time to reflect.
- [Design thinking (for managers)](https://woosahteams.com/glossary/design-thinking/): Design thinking is a human-centered problem-solving method that starts with understanding people's needs, then moves through defining the problem, generating ideas, prototyping, and testing. For managers, it means treating team problems the way designers treat product problems.
- [Employee retention](https://woosahteams.com/glossary/employee-retention/): Employee retention is an organization's ability to keep its people over time. It is often tracked as the share of employees who stay over a given period, and it is shaped heavily by pay, growth, workload, and the day-to-day relationship with a manager.
- [People-first management](https://woosahteams.com/glossary/people-first-management/): People-first management is an approach to leading a team that starts with understanding each person, including how they work, communicate, and handle pressure, and then shapes goals, assignments, and support around that understanding.
- [Role clarity](https://woosahteams.com/glossary/role-clarity/): Role clarity is how well each person on a team understands what they are responsible for, what decisions they can make, and how their work connects to everyone else's.
- [Team dynamics](https://woosahteams.com/glossary/team-dynamics/): Team dynamics are the patterns in how members of a team interact: how they communicate, make decisions, share work, handle disagreement, and support each other. They shape how well a team performs and how it feels to be on it.
- [Team personality assessment](https://woosahteams.com/glossary/team-personality-assessment/): A team personality assessment combines individual work-style or personality results into one view of a whole team. It shows where people's preferences overlap, where they contrast, and where the team as a group may have gaps.
- [Work-style assessment](https://woosahteams.com/glossary/work-style-assessment/): A work-style assessment is a short questionnaire that describes how a person prefers to take in information, make decisions, work with others, and respond to stress. It describes preferences, not ability or performance.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://woosahteams.com/sitemap-index.xml): Every indexable page.