Profiling Tools

We offer a wide range of tools and techniques to suit the needs of you, your team and your business, helping you and your team improve how you work together. We skilfully weave the right tools for you into our programmes and workshops to ensure you achieve the right outcomes for you and your business.

How can profiling tools support the growth of your business?

Profiling isn’t about pigeon-holing people or sticking someone in a category or box. Each individual is continually changing and is always free to choose how he or she responds in the future. In fact, simply understanding a framework or profiling report is often enough for some people to make the changes required to be more effective.

We have spent years developing our skills and abilities using the tools and matching the right ones, in the right scenarios with the right teams and leaders. This will continue to be tweaked with our continued learning, experience and practice.

Our work demonstrates how dialogue around team and leadership dynamics using good profiling frameworks and tools can be both enlightening and liberating.

We can help you to come up with a profiling strategy, clear any misconceptions and help you to follow up regularly so that reports are not left to gather dust. Used and understood correctly, profiling can be a key differentiator for your business: a way to maximise your success.

Reasons to use Profiling Tools

In our view the right tools used in the right ways can be extremely useful but they are often undervalued. Many teams and leaders we work with have found them to be helpful in thinking about leadership, team dynamics and organisational principles while keeping in mind improvements in employee performance, engagement and effectiveness.

Here are some of the reasons why incorporating profiling tools can add real value to targeted team or individual development:

• They create a common language across teams
• They can help to build synergy and more effective teamwork
• There is the opportunity to understand differences, respect and value in self and others
• They increase the awareness of individual and collective strengths and areas for development
• They help teams and leaders think about biases and blind spots
• They add real insight to targeted team development
• They support the active engagement of employees
• Some tools can be used alongside recruitment processes for selecting candidates
• They can support better decision-making, conflict resolution and even make for more effective selling.

The Profiling Tools we use

We offer a wide range of tools and techniques to suit the needs of you, your team and your business – helping you and your team to improve how you work together.

DiSC

The DiSC model provides a common language that people can use to better understand themselves and to adapt their behaviours with others. DiSC profiles help you and your team increase your self-knowledge; how you respond to conflict, what motivates you, what causes you stress and how you solve problems helping to improve working relationships and facilitate better teamwork.

• DiSC Workplace (for team members)
• DiSC Productive Conflict
• DiSC Management (for managers)

TMS Development International Magerison and McCann

• Team Management Profile
• Opportunity Orientation Profile QO2
• Window on Work Values
• Leadership Behaviours Profile 360

Strengths Profile

The Strengths Profile is an assessment tool giving deep insights into your strengths, learned behaviours and weaknesses. This tool gives you a complete understanding of your strengths so you can make the most of them at work, at home and in your relationships with others.

• Strengths Profile Introductory
• Strengths Profile Expert
• Strengths Profile Manager
• Strengths Profile Team

Values in Action

• VIA Institute on Character (values in action)

Positive Intelligence (PQ)

Positive Intelligence (PQ) is a mental fitness assessment and programme which enables you to build ‘mental muscles’ that gives you the capacity to understand and respond to life’s challenges with a positive rather than a negative mindset.  These skills have a positive impact in every aspect of life, including your work, wellbeing and relationships.

• Saboteur Assessment
• 6 week programme can be completed too
• Click here to find out more about Positive Intelligence and how you can book an initial discovery session to work through the Saboteur Assessment.

We use these in our coaching practice, in development programmes for leaders, teams and individuals, in team building events and in consultancy and other support.