Setting priorities and managing time effectively is basic to managing individual and organizational performance. The pressure to find innovative ways to achieve goals, pay attention to the competition, respond quickly to customer needs, and enjoy life outside of work is even more intense in today's less structured, information-driven workplace. Meeting the daily challenge of managing professional and personal responsibilities requires a learning strategy designed to meet individual needs.  The Time Mastery Profile ® helps people understand how they think about and use their time. This understanding is the foundation for changing behaviors and attitudes surrounding time management.

Successful team members don't do the same thing at the same time. They do the right thing at the right time. And while team members work together toward a common goal, individuals still must play their individual roles in the process. As organizations rely more and more on teams to innovate, problem solve, produce, and compete at the speed of change, clearly understanding and capitalizing on individual approaches to group processes is the bottom line on creating high performance teams. The Team Dimensions Profile helps individuals learn to work from their strengths by identifying their most natural team role, while giving them added appreciation for the contributions of others. As a result, team innovation and productivity increase as conflict and project-cycle time decrease.

Discover the Right Roles for the Right People

The Team Dimensions Profile® identifies five key roles in innovative team performance:

• Creator: Generates original concepts, goes beyond the obvious, and sees the big picture. Hands off tasks to an Advancer.

• Advancer: Recognizes new opportunities, develops ways to promote ideas, and moves toward implementation. Hands off tasks to a Refiner.

• Refiner: Challenges and analyzes ideas to detect potential problems and may hand plans back to an Advancer or Creator before handing off tasks to an Executor.

• Executor: Lays the groundwork for implementation, manages the details, and moves the process to completion.

• Flexer: Steps into whatever role is necessary to fill in the gaps, working effectively in any of the roles.

The profile uses the “Z Process” to map the flow of assigning roles, completing tasks, and handing off tasks to other team members. Using the five C.A.R.E. roles in the “Z Process” gets new teams moving forward quickly and gets current teams unstuck.

INDIVIDUAL INSIGHTS

Personal Insight into Work Preferences: Help people understand their preferences for work activities and job tasks.

• Understand the nature and value of your contribution.
• Understand the strengths that you bring to a project and how to best capitalize on these strengths.
• Understand the sources of your frustrations at work, if you are consistently required to take on roles that don’t fit your preferences.
• Comprehend what motivates you in your work and find ways to maximize this motivation.
• Understand the danger of not realizing your limitations.

Understanding of Diversity in Work Roles: Help people understand how others view the group process and their roles.

• Understand that others may have different motivations, priorities, and instincts that compete with your own.
• Understand the roots of your frustrations with others.
• Realize that diversity does not equal adversity

INTERPERSONAL INSIGHTS

Valuing All Work Roles: Help people accept, welcome, and encourage the entire spectrum of work roles.

• Understand that although people need to adjust at times, their preferences are not necessarily bad.
• Develop a model and language through which you can more systematically, cooperatively, and efficiently work with others.
• Create a safe forum to discuss differences.
• Create a culture of acceptance around diverse work roles.
• Give team members the courage to step out and do what they do best.
• Realize when it is appropriate to let others do what they do best

Knowledge About Project Development: Help people understand the process through which a team or organization creates, develops, and realizes an idea or project.

• Identify the tasks that need to be completed at each stage of project development.
• Share a common understanding about the process to ensure less wasted time.
• Understand how unnecessary or mistimed digressions can be stopped or addressed later.

Ability to Create Balance in Work Tasks: Help individuals within groups understand that they will have to fill different work roles as a project progresses.

• Understand that you will have to shift your thinking and behaviors from time to time.
• Realize when it is necessary to stretch beyond your preferences.
• Understand how teams can be reformed to contain a more even balance of roles.

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