The Thomas Personal Profile Analysis report is useful for individuals to get an understanding about their preferred working behavior, how their behaviour-intensities and the combination of traits define their work style. These can be further applied to understanding how may one can be perceived (by others) and the impact they will have on people working around them.
When it comes to a team, collating and analysing the behaviour profile of teams, adds a new dimension to understanding the team. The team-profile provides important information that leaders will find useful for make better team decisions when forming, developing and most of all leading the team in the constantly changing work environment.
Leadership is about bringing the team to a higher level of performance vs managing a team, which is about supervision and delegation of tasks and work. Profiling using a reliable behaviour tool will provide for a more objective and scientific approach in looking at the behaviour of the team and applying the information in situations where performance is impacted by the general behaviour of the team and individual members.
Using a behaviour profiling tool
The team profiling uses the Marston 4 quadrant concept of behaviour. The quadrants defines four behaviours traits. They are Compliance, Steadiness, Influence and Dominance. According to Marston, every individual has a combination of the four behaviour traits. Each of us will have a work behaviour profile with consisting of these four traits with different degree of intensities.
Benefits of Profiling a Team:
Increase individual members Self-Awareness
Understand the Behaviour Traits Profile of the Team
Identifies the Strengths and Limitation of team’s overall profile
Identifies potential challenges of the team
Increase team-awareness for enhanced team-work
Applications of information derived from a Team Profile
Apply team’s group profile in the context of change in business growth, organisation (restructuring), business model, roles, and change in general
Team Development needs
Team formation
Growing High Performance Teams
There's more!
The fundamental focus of team profiling is about understanding the team by getting more information, in this case the behaviour aspect, for better decision making and with the additional knowledge about the team players, effectively “Influence” the team. There are other additional useful information (emotion-traits, potential-traits and cognition abilities) that can be collected about the team, that will be of immense use for leaders. We will be sharing some of these in the coming weeks.
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