Psychological Profiling & Team Assessment

Greater knowledge about what we do and why we do it can open the door to understanding and improvement. At M&MR we are advocates of this approach and we can assist you and your company to access important tools that can aid the ongoing challenges of people development, team assessment and building.

Psychological Profiling
Research shows that understanding our colleagues on a deeper level  - utilising processes with some science behind them – can assist in resolving issues of team communication, problem solving and conflict resolution, as well as tackling that tricky ‘diversity’ issue.

Probably the best regarded in this field is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, published by OPP. This approach has a strong psychological theory underpinning it, is easy to use and understand. With only four scales and sixteen possible types, anyone can quickly come to terms with their ‘type’ within a short time. Under the guidance of a trained M&MR facilitator, not only can people better understand why they do things the way they do, they can also understand why others operate differently – recognising that others are not setting out to be difficult, but may just have a different approach.

There are, of course, any number of alternatives and supplements to this method including Belbin and De Bono, together with other forms of specialist training such as one-to-one coaching, 360° performance appraisal systems, coaching skills workshops and organisational culture surveys. With the assistance of our occupational psychologists, we can offer the right programme to ensure a process of sustained change for your business becomes a reality.

Team Assessment
Our challenges include a combination of low level physical activity and initiative tests, which will naturally ensure all delegates have equally important roles to play. The tasks, often run as ‘leaderless’ activities, can also be adjusted in emphasis so that one person at a time takes charge of his/her team. Our experienced facilitators will focus on this individual, as well as ensuring others do not try to take over where they shouldn’t.

Our instructors can assess each team or leader on their activity, based not only on the completion of the task, but how they performed as team players and/or leaders in each of the criteria making up the challenge (they will be informed in advance of the qualities required throughout the day).

M&MR can, if required, provide feedback to guests on the day, comparing the group’s performance against a ‘benchmark’. This would be done in a positive way, with criticism being neither negative nor personally directed, but instead showing how and where teams are successful, and why.