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Building a great team is not just a matter of getting qualified individuals together. True success comes when they work together in harmony. To do this, team leads need to be able to tap into what makes their team members tick and what roles and tasks are best suited to each person’s unique set of skills and traits. For an innovative way to do this, team leads are turning to psychometric assessments. Originating in the field of psychology, psychometrics do more than just help us understand, they help us create.
Understanding the Role of Psychometric Assessments
If some of your team members crave daily structure while others thrive in a more fluid environment, arranging the team to align with their psychometrics can help the team work together more efficiently. This can also help create a more harmonious workplace altogether.
Psychometric assessments can give you insights into a person’s personality, cognitive abilities, or emotional intelligence. They can help you understand what motivates a person, how they think, and even how they might respond to a bear charging at them in a forest (figuratively, of course). With all of this information in hand, managers can construct groups that will function well together, and avoid the scenarios that might cause fights and damage to relationships.
Complementary Strengths for Effective Collaboration
Not everyone thinks and communicates in the same way. By knowing how your team members express themselves and receive information, you can help improve team communication by setting clear expectations. Equally as important, members of the team will be prepared to compromise and help one another be heard.
A changing marketplace requires teams to be agile, but not all team members are prepared to react the same way. If you know how a team member prefers to handle life’s curveballs, you can adopt a compassionate approach — setting your team up in a way that prevents disruption.
Boosting Communication and Reducing Conflict
People have many different ways of communicating. While some may prefer a more proactive and direct approach, others might like to contemplate their thoughts before sharing them with others. Psychometric tests can help your team members understand these differences, and lead to more effective communication.
Let’s say your teammates are getting into arguments because one person prefers to make decisions on the fly, while the other only feels comfortable responding once they’ve given it some thought. If this second team person is made aware that their colleague is usually quicker to process information than they are, then they can adapt their own style, thus reducing conversational tension.
Enhancing Flexibility and Adaptability
Your psychometric profiles can also tell you what your team members are like when things start to alter. With this information, managers can implement transitions that don’t disrupt daily activities.
Let’s say a company is undergoing some major shifts by restructuring a branch. If this was you, and you based the division on work style and personality theory, you could help your team adapt to the changes in its own way and time. Naturally, this would ensure that morale and productivity remain relatively steadfast in the face of a major overhaul.
Building Teams for Long-Term Success
Managers are not the only ones who can benefit from psychometric analysis, they can also be used by members of the team to know themselves better as well as to value the rest of the team. That way it is possible to feel a sense of belonging and purpose to the team, supercharging morale and productivity.
Know what your team is made of When building great teams, skills are not everything -personality, group dynamics, and role identification make an incredible team. Using psychometric assessments the right way, helps you make a strategic decision, allowing the team and each one of its members to perform the best version of themselves.
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