Profiling - Boosting Performance
We use TMSDI's proven psychometric tools to boost personal and team performance and linking skills, beginning with an understanding of their types of work model. The profiles are used for a variety of purposes, including project kick-offs, re-invigorating existing teams, investigating whether all business functions are performed, effective task allocation, coaching and mentoring, conflict resolution, cultural mergers, or developing a customer focus, the profiles provide practical toolkits for individuals and teams. Please ring to discuss how the profiles can improve your bottom triple line - provider of choice, employer of choice and investment of choice. Call Roger on +44 (0)23 9249 2603 to discuss how profiling can help your business.
The underlying assumption of the Team Management Profile is that people work best when working in their areas of preference, shown below:
Margerison-McCann Team Management Profile Model
A 4500- word report looks at your motivation, how you can best support team success, and how you are likely to lead, manage and link with others. It is excellent for discovering whether you have a balanced team that maximises the value of the diversity of people and how to accommodate the work preferences of others. The report is available in 14 different languages and is at its most powerful when used to build and sustain high performing teams. We provide facilitated feedback on the report to ensure you obtain the optimal value.
The Team Performance Profile provides a snapshot of perceived team performance based on a researched model of effectiveness. The profile is based on 360-feedback for your choice, for example, of customers, suppliers, co-worker groups and senior stakeholders, for example. A 5500-word report provides highly focused insights, ranking tasks by importance, providing levels of satisfaction, highlighting strengths, and identifying weaknesses where energy may be directed more efficiently. By shifting the focus onto the needs and requirements of key stakeholders, the report spotlights where development is required to boost performance. We provide facilitated feedback on the report to ensure you extract the most value from it.
The Linking Skills Profile is a carefully researched multi-rater tool that clearly identifies your performance in fundamental people, task and leadership related skills. Teams need more than a clear vision and implementing strategy with common objectives. Their success depends on the quantity and quality of their coordination skills, the "glue" that keeps them all together and aligned coherently. The profile explores the extent to which you should and you do demonstrate the key behaviours for each linking skill at the individual or team level to achieve alignment.
Margerison-McCann Linking Skills Profile Model
The Linking Skills Profile provides a narrative report with full colour graphics that provides clear development guide-lines to boost performance, strengthening the glue and boosting performance. The linking skills are:
- Linking of People: Active listening, communication, team relationships, problem solving and counselling, participative decision-making and interface management.
- Linking of Tasks: Work allocation, team development, delegation, objectives setting and quality standards.
- Leadership Linking: Motivation and strategy.
The profile provides measurable outcomes providing excellent diagnostics, generating self-awareness and charting development needs. The full-colour graphics report provides a macro-picture from multiple perspectives that makes it more acceptable to individuals and teams, and is accompanied by facilitated feedback.
The Opportunity Orientation Profile focuses on how people approach and deal with risk. Throughout our working life we are constantly faced with opportunities and obstacles; how we choose to deal with them depends on the emphasis we place on "seeing the opportunities" or "seeing the obstacles". Some will use obstacles as a pretext to give up or a stumbling block which slows down momentum or kills a project, whereas other will see opportunities as stepping-stones to the future or a new avenue to pursue.
The profile measures your approach to opportunities and obstacles. People who are wholly focused on opportunities may be blind to the practical difficulties; those who are consumed by the difficulties may not see the opportunities. Excessive optimism or pessimism may occur, resulting in conflict, under-performance, catastrophic business failure, lack of innovation and creativity or unsustainable risk that over-reaches a company or results in decay.
Margerison-McCann Opportunity Orientation Profile Model
The feedback is excellent for personal and team development through facilitated discussion and text reports. An excellent use of the profile is in change management where the profile helps to identify how some will embrace change more easily than others, who may be more resistant. In coaching, we can use the profile to explore attitude to risk, from which development strategies may be created. Within a team context, the insights gained from an objective analysis of each individual's profile can help more opportunities to be seized, whilst being fully cognisant of the attendant risks.
Please ring Roger Lane on +44 (0) 23 9249 2603 for more information on how to use the profiles to support your business objectives, or contact by email: roger@rogerlaneconsulting.com.
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