You might be thinking that I am describing your boss…

According to the Wall Street Journal and Cohegic Corp., a Houston management-consulting firm, three-quarters of 36 U.S. companies recently polled by Cohegic said they are asking executives to take on unfamiliar roles.  The economic rebound also is spurring “a renewed focus on grooming better leadership,” says Stephen Miles, head of leadership-advisory services for recruiters Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. “That’s why we are seeing a renewed focus on alien role rotations.”

More executives are finding their duties suddenly changing to cover areas they know nothing about. Businesses eager for quicker growth during the recovery want fresh viewpoints without hiring new management.  Fast-moving firms like leaders who “can adapt quickly to strange situations”.

Is your company considering you for an alien role rotation in your organization??  How can you increase the odds of your success??

You can increase your odds of your success by quickly learning about your new team with the use of Profiles assessments. Profiles assessments can reduce the 12-24 months of learning about your new team, to just a matter of days and weeks.  You can begin by assessing your employees working directly for you via the ProfileXT.  In about 45 minutes, you can learn the thinking and learning style, the behavior traits, and the occupational interests of each of the members of your direct team.  Use the Coaching Report to receive on-the-job coaching directions for each of your employees.

You can also see how your thinking and learning style, behavior traits, and occupational interests match those of your direct reports via the Profiles Managerial Fit (PMF) Report.  In the PMF Report you receive coaching tips on how to work with your team members that match, and do not match, your individual traits.

Next, you can utilize the Profiles Performance Indicator (PPI) to reveals aspects of an individual’s personality that could impact their fit with you, coworkers, and team, as well as their job performance.  The PPI specifically measures an individual’s motivational intensity and behaviors related to productivity, quality of work, initiative, teamwork, problem solving, and adapting to change, as well as responses to conflict, stress and frustration. The output from this assessment serves as an “operator’s manual” for an employee, which helps you better motivate, coach, and communicate with the employee. It also helps to predict and minimize conflict among co-workers, and it provides crucial information for improving team selection and performance.

A powerful feature of the PPI is the Team Analysis Report, designed to help you form new teams, reduce team conflict, improve team communication, improve their ability to anticipate problems, and enhance their team leadership skills.  It helps evaluate overall team balance, strengths and weaknesses, as well as team members’ personality characteristics along 12 key factors: control, composure, social influence, analytical, patience, results orientation, precision, expressiveness, ambition, teamwork, positive expectancy and quality of work. It also provides team leaders with practical recommendations and action steps to take in order to succeed in their jobs.

So how do you go from an “alien” manager to a great manager and coach??  Assess your new team with the ProfileXT, the PMF, and the PPI.  Want to find out more?  Go to www.royalmountainresources.com/products-and-services.