A number of our Network Members have recently got in touch with questions about Split Wheels. Here are some of the common questions that came up, along with how to answer them!

Q. What is a Split Wheel?

A. The majority of Team Management Profiles (TMPs) result in major and related role preferences that are adjacent on the Team Management Wheel. In the picture below the major role is Assessor-Developer, with the related roles of Explorer-Promoter and Thruster-Organiser falling either side.

The work and research we generate at Team Management Systems focuses on identifying and understanding the critical work activities necessary for all teams to be successful. The research provides insights into optimal team performance in terms of nine team performance factors, summarised by the Margerison-McCann Types of Work Wheel as seen below. Effective teams continually demonstrate a sustained focus on all of these nine performance factors.

2012 is already shaping up to be a big year for Team Management Systems.

The use of psychometric profiles in business has been growing in popularity since the 1970’s. The business case being that you have more control over the factors which you are aware and can measure.

Organisations are finding that training plus coaching can be 4 times more effective than training alone.

That is because coaching is about personal bests. It’s about showing someone how to become the person they want to become.

And you can’t do this without self-awareness, that fundamental emotional intelligence upon which many others are based.

In his article Australian Mateship: an ingredient of successful teams? Michael Burns argues that it is the spirit of mateship that not only helps Australia win on the sporting field, but also in business.

We love hearing from accredited Network Members on how they have used the TMS Profiles in interesting ways or in programmes that have successfully enhanced teamwork and leadership in the workplace. So it is with great pleasure to put together our special event series – Great Teams, Great Leaders, Great Results. This special series feature six experts from a range of industries discussing the strategies they have employed to empower teams and drive organisational performance

You walk into your client’s office, knowing that a team building programme would successfully address their workplace concerns. However they’re dead against it.

Waste of time!
Not worth the money!
I don’t’ need that airy fairy rubbish!