Develop your Team Change Your Organisation

At Thales Training & Consultancy we recognise that many organisations face the challenge of creating and managing effective, high-performance teams.

Team identity and performance can be adversely affected by numerous factors, including personality profiles, changes in market conditions, business restructuring, cross-border or cross-functional team structures, remote working, language and cultural barriers and so on.

To help teams become more effective and productive in business, we provide a range of team building days coupled with specific profiling tools creating a learning and development environment that is highly effective and applicable in the workplace.

Profiling is a way of recognising the clusters of behaviours we all prefer to use when we work in teams. Notably as no one team role is better than any other, it is important that all members of the team take part.

Some of the profiling tools we specialise in are as follows:

Belbin Team roles

• Identifies strengths & weaknesses in the team
• Helps to get the right balance within the team
• Increases team performance
• Team members have greater understanding of the contribution made by others

Facet 5

Is a 'Big 5' factor personality model, which allows managers to understand how people differ in their behaviour, motivation, attitudes and aspirations. Based on the 5 fundamental building blocks of personality - Will, Energy, Affection, Control, Emotionality.

MBTi

The MBTi instrument is an exceptionally versatile tool that provides individuals and teams with a powerful understanding of their own and others personality styles. By understanding the differences between personality types, groups and individuals are able to work more effectively, improving communication and reducing conflict.

Mayor-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test

This is an ability based test designed to measure the 4 branches of the Emotional Intelligence model of Mayor and Salovey. The MSCEIT is the only published ability measure of Emotional Intelligence skills and is widely used in corporate coaching settings. It is the leading scientifically validated measurement tool.

Insights Discovery

This is a preference-based system with its foundations in the work of Carl Jung. Using colours is a common language for self-understanding, effective interaction and organisational growth. Each of us uses these colour energies to varying degrees, though it is our unique ordering of the energies that will shape our personal style, and it will be our preference for one colour energy that will indicate our dominant preferred style of thinking working and communicating