Early on in 2020 as the pandemic took hold we published a few documents focusing on the models of the Team Management Profile (TMP) and virtual work. Our small team here at TMS Americas has been virtual for about 18 years now and we thought if we captured some of our experiences through the lens of the TMP, people could … Read More
Who Gets Accredited?!? Part 2
Our last post began what will be a series reviewing the group of people who we accredited in 2019 in the Team Management Profile. The post looked at some of the high level differences between the 2019 accredited group and the worldwide TMP data from a preference perspective. The graphic below illustrates some of those high level differences: This post … Read More
TMS Research – Perspectives: Age and Analytic and Belief Preferences
Over the next little while I will be writing some posts using the data which comes from the newest version of Team Management Systems research; RM5. A couple of things about these posts: I will be using data directly from the TMS research material I will be adding my subjective perspective on why this data may be what it is I’ll … Read More
Which Work Functions are the Biggest Struggle – Part 2
The last post identified 3 of the work functions from the Margerison McCann Types of Work Model that tend to be challenging for teams in organizations to play: Maintaining Advising Developing When we add work preferences into the picture from the Team Management Profile (TMP) there are additional perspectives that may be at play here. The work preferences identified in the … Read More
Sustainability Resource Person – Who and What is This?
Earlier this year TMS Americas introduced the role of Sustainability Resource into the mix of things we do and offer to help sustain the use of our assessment products. We now call this the Sustainability Resource Person. So what is this you may ask? It’s really quite simple and we think an important step in helping people understand sustainability of assessment … Read More
Sustainable Assessment Use – The End User
The end user is the third variable of assessment use; the last two posts have looked at the product and the expert and how they may affect sustainable use. Interestingly, in the assessment business the end user tends to be the variable that gets the least amount of attention in terms of sustainable use, or use at all for that … Read More
Sustainable Assessment Use – The Expert
The last post looked at sustainable assessment use through the lens of the product. The second of the 3 key variables in sustainable assessment use is the expert. That person is typically trained and certified by the assessment company to use the product. Thus I’ve used the term expert. For most assessment companies the expert is their key customer. A … Read More
Sustainable Assessment Use – The Product
In the last post I listed 3 components that make up the typical usage model of assessments like the TMP: The product The expert The end user I also asked what people thought is the order of importance of those 3 components in enabling sustainable use. My perspective on that ordering is as follows: The end user The product The … Read More
Left Loop Stability and the Challenge of Behavior Change
In the last post I talked about the left loop of our interaction model. It is this left loop, our patterns of interaction that become stable over time. Stable enough that these patterns do not often really need to be thought about. This is what makes behavior change difficult and the point was made – ‘Heck, it’s not even easy … Read More
Sustainability in Learning – Ideas, Questions, Hopes and Concerns
Last year I wrote only one post for the TMS Americas site. My blog energy was spent on 10 Good Reasons To Hate Work Teams and OUCH! – The Misfit Between Theory and Experience in Organizations. While the OUCH! posts will continue for a while I am starting a series of posts on the TMS Americas site focusing on sustainability; … Read More