Career development with Team Management Profile (TMP)

In career development, the tool is used to create insight into your own way of working and to identify the driving forces that govern choices and attitudes in professional development. TMP forms a basis for reflections on your own driving forces, individual focus and individual preferences and is a support for the choice of focus in the work. This is what you get:

• Individual profile (26-30 pages) that shows and suggests suitable work areas for the client.

• Self-instructional description (workbook) for the tool. The manual provides the underlying theory, exercises and tools for personal development and career development.

• The tool suggests and shows what a possible continued career development and career direction could look like for the client.

• The Types of Work model defines the universal recurring steps of the work wheel.

• The four work preference measures illustrate in a picture the main aspects of how we prefer to behave in a work environment.

• Margerison and McCann have integrated the work model and the personal model and thus developed the Team Management wheel. The wheel describes the types of work that people prefer and the roles they prefer to perform in a team.

Match between a job and a person

Problems arise when work requirements are too far from your own work preferences. What you may not always think about is that if work requirements and work preferences fully match, there is also no positive development in this. The work becomes easy to handle but at the same time boring because you are not challenged. For a positive career development, a difference is needed between what the job requires and what you can offer, but the distance needs to be big enough.

The research behind the TMP tool

• TMP has been developed by the two researchers dr. Charles Margerison and dr. Dick McCann.

• TMP is based on Carl Jung’s theory of personality types and is based on and adapted to the universal work process.

• TMP has extensive scientific documentation that meets very strict requirements for reliability. (See links for the summary and the report).

British Psychological Society’s evaluation of TMP (from the summary)