Corporate Outdoor Training has been delivering Team Management Systems workshops since 1990 and is one of Australia's leading providers of TMS concepts. Our experience spans Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA, with over 7,000 participants involved.

Peter Martini, a pioneer, and internationally recognised leader in integrating experiential activities with TMS concepts, is a TMS Master Trainer and heads the team of accredited TMS professionals.

WHY COMBINE TMS WITH OUTDOOR TRAINING?
Team Management System concepts provide the language and framework for teams to achieve high performance. Experiential activities provide the opportunity to practice, understand and fully embrace the concepts. When the two components are integrated by an expert facilitator, in a sequenced program they combine to produce a powerful learning experience.

TEAM PROCESS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES
How often have you heard "well it was fun, but not much more" or "too much touchy feely stuff!" in regard to outdoor training? All too often in our opinion. That is why we have become leaders in experiential training through our understanding and integration of Team Management Wheel concepts.

At Corporate Outdoor Training we believe experiential activities combined with tested 'process tools' improve retention of learning and application back into the workplace. An innovation, developed by Corporate Outdoor Training, is the development of the Types of Work Model into a Team Process Model.

WHAT IS TEAM PROCESS?
High performance doesn't just happen. Even the most committed team will not succeed if it does not have the tools or systems for high performance. Team process provides a systematic methodology for team based problem solving. Team process provides a team with a common language for teamwork, and a practical work tool for delivering high performance results.

On completion of the program participants return to work equipped with a versatile problem solving process that they can apply to workplace improvement projects.

TMS PRODUCTS DELIVERED BY COT
Team Management Systems - recognised internationally as the foremost integrated work-based assessment system - offers research-proven assessments that reveal critical dynamics to enable the development of high performance in the work place.

Team Management Profile
People tend to practice what they prefer and therefore perform better in those areas that match their work preference.

Understanding work preferences is a critical component in developing individual, team, and organisational performance. Team Management Systems' Team Management Profile Questionnaire (TMPQ) is a 60-item assessment focused on enhancing understanding of an individual's approach to work. Based on the responses to the TMPQ, the Personal Team Management Profile provides constructive, work-based information outlining an individual's work preferences, based on the Team Management Wheel, and the strengths that an individual brings to a team.

The Personal Team Management Profile highlights an individual's major and related areas of work preferences, including information focused on:

• Work Preferences
• Leadership Strengths
• Decision-Making
• Interpersonal Skills
• Team-Building

Team Performance Profile
For high performance in teams, ongoing assessment is a requirement. The Team Performance Profile Questionnaire (TPPQ) and resulting Profile are tools developed to support this process. The TPPQ is a 54-item multi-rater instrument that focuses on assessing a team's performance in nine team performance factors associated with high performing teams.

• Provides an ideal entry point to an assessment of team performance by offering a common language and shared understanding of critical factors for high performance
• Acts as a catalyst for team development and improved effectiveness by enabling team members to focus on areas requiring action.
• Is an ideal tool in any ongoing team development process - initial profiling of the team can be repeated at a later point to assess how team performance has improved.

Linking Skills Profile
There's more to teaming than just hooking things up! Linking -- the integrating of people and work process -- is necessary to ensure high performance at work.

Extensive interviews with teams and team leaders throughout the world continue to highlight common elements responsible for integrating teams into a coherent "whole". Team Management Systems identifies these elements as Linking Skills, which need to be implemented by all members of a team, though often focused on the team leader. Team Management Systems' Linking Skills Profile Questionnaire (LSPQ) is a 66-item multi-rater assessment through which a number of different people rate an individual's linking skills.

Is your glass half-empty or half-full? This new profile from Team Management Systems explores the fifth dimension of human behavior and determines the balance of effort people put into seeing the opportunities and obstacles at work. For most jobs it is important to have this 'balance' - people who focus on the opportunities, without seeing potential obstacles, can make hasty decisions, whereas those who focus too much on the obstacles may never give the go-ahead to new projects or ventures. This profile, together with the Team Management Profile, can give individuals work-based feedback on the five independent factors of the human psyche.

The has been developed in a rigorous research program and is built up from five subscales:

• MTG Energy - how much energy you put into 'Moving Towards Your Goals'
• Multi-Pathways - the extent to which you find ways around obstacles
• Fault-Finding - how good you are at seeing potential obstacles
• Optimism - The extent to which you expect positive outcomes
• Time-Focus - a measure of your psychological time and your orientation to the past, the present or the future

Influencing Skills Profile
Influencing Skills enable you to:

• Work collaboratively in changing environments
• Establish rapport and gain buy-in, support, and commitment
• Motivate others to "do more with less"
• Dissolve or overcome resistance
• Create positive partnerships critical for success

Building on the concepts of the Team Management Wheel, the Influencing Skills Profile has been designed to offer Team Management Systems Network Members an assessment to highlight successful communication strategies for working with others.