Personal and Business Competencies / Personal Skills

FRIS® Thinking Styles — Individual Diagnosis and Team Workshop

A FRIS® Thinking Styles diagnosis combined with a team workshop. Every participant completes an online questionnaire, receives an individual report and a feedback session, and the team then works on a shared map of styles: where misunderstandings come from, how to divide work, and how to turn cognitive diversity into an advantage. EITT is a certified FRIS® partner.

Not bad intentions — a different way of processing

In most teams the same misunderstandings come back year after year. One person wants the numbers first, another wants to talk it through, a third throws out a solution before anyone has described the problem, and a fourth holds the decision until the picture is complete. Each of them is convinced the others are making the work harder.

FRIS® shows that this is not about character or ill will. It is about what a person reaches for first when building an understanding of a situation. That single shift in framing usually defuses the conflict faster than any procedural agreement.

Four perspectives, four Thinking Styles

The name FRIS® is an acronym of four cognitive perspectives: Facts, Relationships, Ideas and Structures. From these come four Thinking Styles, each describing what a person turns to first when facing a new problem.

The methodology was created in Poland and continues to be developed against Polish cultural and business conditions, which distinguishes it from instruments carried over from other markets. It does not describe a personality type or a behavioural style — it describes information processing, which is what actually shows up in a conversation about a project.

How the programme runs

It begins before the workshop: each participant completes the questionnaire online, receives an individual report and works through it in a feedback session with a certified trainer. Only then does the team sit down together.

The workshop produces a map of styles across the whole team. It shows where the group’s strength lies and where the gap is — because a team made up of a single style has a predictable set of strengths and an equally predictable set of blind spots. We close with agreements: how to divide work, how to pass information to particular people, and what to return to when a disagreement arises.

EITT is a certified FRIS® partner

Assessments, reports and feedback sessions are delivered under official licence, and the workshop is led by a certified FRIS® trainer. We write more about the methodology itself in our knowledge base, including a piece on how FRIS® thinking styles influence team collaboration.

Benefits

Learn your own Thinking Style and Action Style from a validated diagnosis
Understand the four FRIS® cognitive perspectives and what they mean at work
Recognise another person's style and adapt how you pass information to them
Explain recurring misunderstandings as differences in processing rather than ill will
Build a map of the team's styles and read its strengths and gaps from it
Divide work in a way that reflects team members' natural predispositions
Plan your development around strengths rather than around compensating for weaknesses

Who is this training for?

Teams where the same misunderstandings keep recurring despite good intentions

Leaders who want to adapt how they communicate to specific people in the team

Cross-functional teams bringing together very different ways of working

Managers planning how to divide work according to natural predispositions

Teams after a change of composition, a merger or a reorganisation

HR and L&D functions looking for a diagnostic tool built for the Polish market

Individuals planning a development path around their strengths

Prerequisites

No prerequisites — the workshop assumes no background in psychology
Completion of the FRIS® online questionnaire before the workshop (around 30 minutes)
Willingness to discuss your own way of working within the team

Training program

The FRIS® questionnaire online — around 30 minutes to complete
Individual report: Thinking Style, Action Style and practical guidance
Feedback session with a certified trainer to work through the result
Identifying the work situations where your natural style helps and where it gets in the way

The four cognitive perspectives: Facts, Relationships, Ideas, Structures
The four Thinking Styles and how they differ in practice
A map of styles across the team: who processes information and decides in what way
Exercises showing how the same problem looks to people of different styles
Where everyday misunderstandings come from — different processing, not bad intent

Adapting how you communicate to the style of the person in front of you
Dividing work according to the team's natural predispositions
Spotting capability gaps that come from a style missing in the team
Action Style under pressure — what changes as stress rises
Individual implementation plans and team agreements for the weeks ahead

Delivery Methods

Online

Convenience of participating from anywhere
Interactive live sessions with trainer
Materials available for 30 days
No travel costs

On-site

Direct contact with trainer and group
Intensive hands-on workshops
Networking with other participants
Full focus on learning

Training Topics

Frequently asked questions

Can EITT administer the FRIS® assessment?

Yes. EITT is a certified FRIS® partner — assessments, reports and feedback sessions are delivered under official licence, and the workshop is led by a certified FRIS® trainer.

How does FRIS® differ from DISC, Insights Discovery or personality tests?

FRIS® does not describe a personality type or a behavioural style. It describes how a person processes information — how they read a situation and what they base a decision on. It was developed in Poland against Polish cultural and business conditions, which sets it apart from instruments translated in from other markets.

How long does the assessment itself take?

Completing the online questionnaire takes around 30 minutes and happens before the workshop. Participants receive their individual report as a PDF, and the result is worked through in the feedback session.

Can we order the diagnosis alone, without the team workshop?

Yes. We deliver both individual diagnoses with a feedback session and full team workshops. The workshop adds something the diagnosis alone cannot: a shared map of the team and concrete agreements about working together.

How many people can take part in the workshop?

Six to fourteen works best — small enough for everyone to work through their own result, large enough for all four styles to appear on the team map. Larger organisations are split into workshop groups.

Does the workshop work remotely?

Yes. The assessment happens online in any case, and we run the workshop both on site and remotely. The on-site format leaves more room for small-group conversation, but the substance is comparable.

Are results shared with the employer?

The individual report belongs to the participant. In the workshop we work on the team map only to the extent participants agree to — taking part does not mean handing your report to your manager.

Is a certificate issued?

Yes, every participant receives a personalised certificate of completion issued by EITT along with their individual FRIS® report.