Profiling Tools and Models in Banff

Banff, located in Aberdeenshire in N Scotland, boasts a charming harbour and historic town centre with many buildings of note. Duff House, a 5 star visitor attraction, and the surrounding parkland is a wonderful venue for small meetings and team building activities.

We use profiling to create a common language, examine and maximise team strengths and development areas.

Within a wide spectrum of theoretical models, relevant profiling tools can be incorporated into our interventions to help provide clarity and develop cohesion within, between and across teams and organisations.

We use internationally recognised behavioural and personality profiling tools and models to provide a wide range of benefits and meet the diverse requirements of our client groups. With such profiling tools, a holistic and progressive approach is adopted in order to allow a dynamic learning environment to be created, whilst facilitating the acquisition and transfer of learning and knowledge.

Maximillion's lead facilitators are accredited and experienced in using BELBIN Team Role Types & Myers Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI), as well as a wide variety of other profiling tools and models. These include Team Effectiveness Inventory (TEI), StrengthsFinder™, Team Management Systems (TMS), brain dominance personal mapping, DiSC & Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI).

Who are they for?

Individuals, teams and groups from across all organisational and functional levels, e.g. leadership teams, operational teams, project teams, sales teams, as well as multi-disciplinary cross functional teams and groups. The choice of profiling tool will depend on your expectations, the scope of the intervention and its desired outcomes.

Key features

• Profiling process and data is managed, interpreted and played back by expert practitioners
• Online or paper-based options, whichever is the most practical and cost-effective

• Safe and non-threatening, but stimulating and insightful

Key benefits of profiling tools used by Maximillion

• Easy to use, score and explain
• Many are short and quick to complete
• Clients benefit from the playback of the data during the workshop and find the results helpful
• They work (there is extensive evidence of validity for each one used)
• Promote a constructive approach to the differences between individuals
• Widely used, so there is plenty of comparative data available

• A large body of associated resource material available - books, booklets, manuals, video and workshop materials.

Which one?

Due to the diverse nature and purpose of each profiling tool or model, the choice will depend on many factors, such as your intervention brief, your expectations and the desired outcomes. Maximillion would be pleased to advise you on which ones would be best suited to your requirements.

Please find below an overview of our most widely-used tools and models:

• BELBIN Team Role Types. A behavioural diagnostic tool to profile an individual's team role preferences, through workplace behaviours, as well as the collective team picture. Maximillion is an accredited BELBIN Team Role centre and we provide full Belbin Profiling Services and allied workshops to help your team identify individual team role preferences, the collective team role strengths of your team and their implications for and applications in the workplace.
• MBTI. Myers-Briggs Type Indicators classify the ways in which we view the world around us, deal with it and react to it. It is a self-reporting tool that allows people to understand how they interact in every day life. The tool identifies valuable differences between people - differences that can be the source of much misunderstanding and miscommunication. Awareness of MBTI profiles can help colleagues to operate more effectively together.
• TEI. In order to achieve a baseline measure of team effectiveness prior to a team development intervention, we can engage teams with our online team profiling tool - Team Effectiveness Inventory.  When we compare this to results of a similar survey conducted within two to three months of the initial TEI, we can carry out a gap analysis by isolating many of the variables that affect team effectiveness and performance. A final comparative report is produced and its findings will assist in identifying opportunities for future development and subsequently we are able to calculate the return on investment for you and the team.
• TMS. This is a suite of tools that enable teams to organise themselves to value differences, create balance, improve imaginative and critical thinking, set appropriate goals, and make effective decisions.   It also explains sources of conflict and can identify those best placed in a team to bring harmony. Like the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI), it's based on the work of Jung and has been positively reviewed by the British Psychological Society, but it's not a pure psychometric instrument. Instead it describes people's role preferences within a team.
• Brain dominance profiling - our four selves. By identifying thinking, learning and communication styles people can gain a new perspective of themselves and others and develop a greater appreciation of how individuals think, learn, make decisions, solve problems, and communicate. The brain dominance profile provides a very clear and simple language by which to explain cognitive strengths and weaknesses. The profile can be used very effectively in team building, communication, project management, change management and to explore corporate culture.

What next?

If you think that one of more of the above individual or team profiling tools might be for your company, you can find out more by reviewing the 'how we do it' links or getting in touch with our Learning & Development Consultant Sandy Smith on 0131 333 0066 or make an enquiry.

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