Team
Profiles
TeamMark
Report
The
TeamMark
is an assessment used to develop a unique profile and
characterization of teams, work groups, departments, business units
and entire organizations. The report presents a profile of your
group’s similarities and differences, as well as the advantages
and disadvantages associated with your group type.
Additionally, the profile contains a framework and suggested
strategies for improving group effectiveness and interpersonal
relationships within your group.
The
TeamMark
ReportTM
can help:
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Better understand
and build on team members’ similarities and differences. |
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Analyze and
identify your team’s strengths and resources, as well as potential
weaknesses. |
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Improve
communications between team members. |
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Determine roadblocks
and develop work-arounds so not to impede progress. |
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Utilize and maximize the
talents of all the team members. |
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Serve as a professional
development experience for members. |
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Implement a specific
action plan for goal attainment.
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Dimensions
of Measurement
Type: Identifies one's management style, learning style, and communication
style.
Contribution:
One's attributes and skills that contribute in bringing about a positive and
beneficial result.
Approach: Describes a persons predisposition towards problem solving and decision
making.
Needs: Addresses the tension that occurs when needs are met against when needs
are not met.
Motivation:
Refers to the desire, emotion, and impulse that moves one to action.
Team
Scores Relative to Normative Scores:
Measures the team's preferences in four areas of team effectiveness and makes a
comparison with normative results of other teams who have conducted the
assessment.
Where we prefer focus our attention
How we take in
information, find out about things
How we make decisions
How we orient toward the outer world
Important
Combinations:
Combination of types within the team's members are the basis to evaluate two key
behaviors; 'on a team' and 'potential blind spots and pitfalls'
Unique
Makeup of the Team:
Identifies the unique strengths and weaknesses of the team type as well as the
characteristics of the team leader and tips for working with the leader.
The report includes the following:
Introduction
Defining
a Team
Creating
a Team’s Purpose
Building
Team Effectiveness Needs
Considering
the Constraints
Stating
the Assumptions
General
Characteristics of the TeamMark Sixteen Types
Predictions
About Teams
My
Team – Members and Type
My
Team – Make-up
My
Team – Totals and Percentages
Type
Distribution in the US Population at Large
Similarities
and Differences
E/I
Preference – Where We Prefer to Focus Our Attention
S/N
Preference – How We Take In Information and find Out About Things
T/F
Preference – How We Make Decisions
J/P
Preference – How We Orient Toward the Outer World
Team
Characteristics – Important Combinations
Sensing/Judging
– Guardians
Intuition/Thinking
– Rationals
Intuition/Feeling
– Idealists
Sensing/Perceiving
– Artisans
My
Team – Combinations
My
Team – Strengths and Weaknesses
My
Team – Leading the Team
Setting
the Ground Rules
Suggestions
for the Leader
My
Team – Decision Making Model
Individual
– The TeamMark
Report has its origin in each
individual team member conducting a CenterMark assessment. The
results of the assessment provide valuable information and feedback to the
individual team member as well as the relationship of those results to ones
effectiveness and contributions as a team member.
Team – The TeamMark
Report aggregates the individual
assessment results along with the results of the team leader and produces a
report of approximately 25-pages that provides insight into the team member's
similarities and differences and how the team's balance of similarities and
differences will affect important key performance issues.
TeamStyle
Report
The TeamStyle
Report™ expands upon the four-quadrant model introduced
in the
Working Style assessment. It
presents a profile of your team’s characteristics and helps you determine your
team’s favored style, its strengths and growth opportunities.
The report provides insights as similarities and differences among team
members and contains valuable guidelines and tips you can draw on to promote
understanding, defuse conflict and more fully utilize each member’s talents.
The TeamStyle
Report™ can help:
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Build cohesiveness, create a
shared purpose and build respect among members. |
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Understand
the behaviors of the four styles, the advantages and disadvantages of each
style, and how the styles affect each other.
This understanding will help you negotiate interpersonal
relationships and tasks so that all parties achieve mutually satisfactory
goals. |
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Learn how to “read”
situations and the needs of the people with whom you work as well as
guidelines and steps you can take to make your relationship with other
styles more effective. |
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Appreciate and maximize the
contributions each style brings to the team. |
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Analyze and identify your
team’s strengths and potential growth opportunities. |
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Improve communication among
team members. |
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Grow in your professional
development. |
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Build an environment that
promotes trust and understanding among team members, achieving goals that
bring value to the organization and its stakeholders. |
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Understand that team development
is not a program but an on-going process.
No team is ever perfect; there is always room for improvement. |
Dimensions
of Measurement
Characteristic
Behavior:
Actions that people can see or hear. What
a person does; it is the outer state expressed by the way a person prefers to
communicate and do things.
Assertiveness: Degree of forcefulness expressed in behavior.
Describes a person’s forcefulness, energy and directness.
Preferred Orientation: People or task;
addresses a person’s
priority for people (interpersonal relationship) or task (work assignment).
Emotional
Expression:
Describes a person’s responsiveness, readiness to express emotions and
feelings and the degree of
emotion expressed in behavior.
Pace:
Relative rate of action or speed.
Style:
is the way in which something is said, done, expressed or performed:
behavior pattern, conduct, posture, gestures, tone.
A person’s style is based on a
pattern of behaviors. Because
behaviors associated with our style are so habitual, they feel
natural…that’s why our style is often referred to as our ‘comfort zone.’
Adaptability:
Speaks to a person’s ability to be changeable and flexible in different
situations and to adjust to other people’s style.
Teamability:
Is the ability of a person to work as a collaborative member of a team.
Direct
vs. Indirect: Describes how a person approaches various situations.
Direct: Quick decisions talks
and tells, impatient, confronting, outgoing, gives opinions.
Indirect: Cautious decisions, listens and asks, unhurried,
non-confronting, reserved, restricts opinions.
The
report includes the following:
Map of the four working styles
Characteristics of the four styles
Definitions and meanings of the four
styles
Stress behaviors
Predictions about teams
Graphical and tabular
representations of the team
TeamStyle map
Team characteristics
TeamStyle report; including actions
to take to strengthen the team's effectiveness
Team communication tips
Team leader characteristics
Suggestions for being an effective
team leader
Social and task congruency charts
Suggestions for interacting with
styles
How others perceive you
Action steps; getting feedback on
your leadership style, following-up with co-workers
When your style differs from your
team leader's
Delegating strategies (exercise)
Team ground rules (exercise)
Individual
– The TeamStyle Report has its origin in individual team members conducting a
Working Styles assessment which includes a self-assessment as well as a
self-managed 360 degree multi-rater component.
The results of the assessment provide valuable information and feedback
to the individual team members by describing how they primarily approach and
deal with people and situations at work such as: their most effective
environment, their least effective environment, how to effectively manage, how
to be effectively managed, communication and persuasion, and growth
opportunities.
Team
– The TeamStyle Report aggregates the individual assessment results along with
the results of the team leader and produces a report of approximately 30-pages
that addresses team performance (task) and team relationships (people) and the
implication of task and people on the team's chemistry in terms of performance
and behavior. A key outcome of the
assessment is an ability to view ones self as well as see how others view us.
The 'observable behavior' feature is a key differentiator from other
assessment instruments and provides a compelling reason to incorporate the
TeamStyle Report for building team performance, productivity, and communication.
