Whichever accreditation option you choose – in-company, webinar or open programme – each has its own advantages. Here we focus on in-company accreditation and talk to one of our course leaders, Mark Gilroy, about the benefits of this route to accreditation. Continue reading
Today TMSDI network members gathered in London for another informative and thought-provoking network forum.
Having attended many of the Psychometrics Forum sessions over the past few years, TMSDI Learning & Development Consultant Mark Gilroy was honoured to be invited to speak at their September event in London, Coaching Teams for Effective Performance using Personality Measures. Continue reading
Like many universities, Canterbury Christ Church University is facing lots of changes and challenges within the education sector. To support middle and senior managers, Vue Training & Consultancy has been working in partnership with the University to develop a highly practical and inspiring programme that encompasses the University’s own leadership model.
Because no-one ever forgets the buzz of working in a high energy, high performing team…
The Margerison-McCann Team Management Profile has been designed to give all of us a better chance of feeling great about the work we do and the people we work with.
Through 25 years of research about how people work together, we’ve created a unique profiling tool designed to maximise personal potential and take the guesswork out of teamwork.
Combining ecologically and economically friendly solutions for the transportation and travel needs of companies is the pioneering focus of EcoLibro’s consultancy work. Based in Germany, the company takes traditional transport consulting a step further by asking: “How many cars do you really need – and what is the most efficient mobility solution?”
For Michael Schramek, founder and CEO, it was important to address their teamwork from the start. Continue reading
Left to right: June Dickens (Nottingham City PCT), Heather Sahman (HJS Innovations Ltd), Dirk Supply (Herbots Management Supply bvpa), Ray McMorrow (NHS Derby City), Gerda Herbots (Herbots Management Supply bvpa), Sarah Getley (Staffordshire County Council), Ray Barruffo (Base Over Apex), Bob Young (BYLD), Dr Charles Margerison, Mark Gilroy (TMS Development International Ltd), Chris Preston-Jones (RS Components)
Our latest group of Team Management Profile Accreditation participants were thrilled to be joined by one of the Team Management Systems authors, Dr Charles Margerison.
After spending two days working together with tutors Bob Young and Mark Gilroy, as part of their Team Mananagement Profile Accreditation Programme, the group were offered the rare opportunity to spend time hearing about Charles’ latest news and updates, as well as a look back at the early days of the research that he started with TMS co-author Dr Dick McCann.
Some 200 senior and middle managers from BNP Paribas Fortis in Belgium recently went through a development programme featuring both the Team Management Profile and Linking Skills Profile. The ‘Management Dynamics’ programme, introduced to help change management style and behaviour in the wake of the global financial crisis, was designed to augment managers’ strong commercial drive with people management and coaching skills. The initiative supports the five promises of the bank: listening, partnering, being accessible, transparency and engagement.
Using the Margerison-McCann Team Management Profile and Linking Skills Profile in conjunction can be a powerful way to help firms achieve their operational objectives and strategic goals. Leadership and management development company RedSky Learning has used the combined approach in organisations ranging from police forces and fire services to retailers, construction companies and financial services businesses.
The challenge
A few years ago a small northern financial services company went through a rebranding exercise designed to give impetus to a new, more dynamic and customer-focused way of working. But although the rebranding signalled a real step change in the company’s development, the board found it difficult to inject the pace required to deliver its ambitious new strategic objectives.
Alarmed by a persistent ‘them and us’ culture among executives and managers, as well as an entrenched silo mentality and high staff turnover, the company called in RedSky Learning. RedSky quickly diagnosed the problem as a top team that knew how to manage, but not lead. Their remedy was a tailored leadership programme, with the Margerison-McCann Linking Skills Profile at its heart, which has brought a radical transformation in the company’s health over the past two years.
Leading pharmaceutical company Sanofi is using the Team Management Profile to help drive new behaviours and higher performance among a restructured field sales force.
The restructuring at the end of 2010 was part of an organisation-wide shift towards a more consultative, key-account-management-focused approach, designed to foster deeper relationships with senior clinicians and managers within the NHS at a time when the health sector is facing major challenge.
