Understand Yourself. Work Better with Others.
Great teamwork starts with self-awareness. Understand how you prefer to work. Then, recognise how your colleagues’ preferences differ from yours. When you grasp how both approaches bring unique value, collaboration becomes easier and your contribution becomes more impactful.
Discover your work preferences and learn how to bring your best to every team.
Your Experience
You have probably experienced these team frustrations:
- Colleagues who work in ways that seem inefficient or confusing can make it difficult to understand yourself and work better with others.
- Meetings where you feel unheard or misunderstood highlight the importance of self-awareness and collaboration in order to work better with others and fully understand yourself.
- Tasks assigned to you that drain your energy and leave you exhausted at the end of the day often reflect not understanding yourself and not being able to work better with others.
- Disagreements with teammates despite everyone having good intentions can reveal gaps in understanding yourself and the tools needed to work better with others.
- Uncertainty about how to communicate with one of your colleagues is a signal to work better with others by first understanding yourself.
- Feeling like you are not contributing your best work? It’s time to understand yourself more and work better alongside others.
- Frustration when others do not value what you bring to the team can stem from not having the insight to work better with others and truly understand yourself.
The problem is that teams rarely have a shared positive language for understanding different work styles and how to make them work together.
How TMS Global Helps You
Discover Your Work Preferences
The Team Management Profile (TMP) shows how you naturally prefer to approach work. It doesn’t look at your personality or put you in a box, but gives you practical insights about how you contribute, communicate and collaborate.
Understand Your Colleagues
When your whole team completes TMP, you will understand why your colleagues approach work differently and how this can contribute to the strength of your team.
Communicate More Effectively
Learn to adapt your communication for different work styles. Know who needs detail, who wants the big picture, who prefers time to reflect, who needs the data and who wants to move quickly.
Find Your Zone
Understand which tasks energise you and which drain you. Have informed conversations with your manager about work allocation that plays to your strengths and job crafting.
Navigate Change and Uncertainty
QO2 shows how you respond to uncertainty, complexity and risk. Understanding your own opportunity/obstacle orientation helps you manage your reactions and contribute positively during decision-making and transitions.
Align Your Values
WoWV helps you understand what you truly value at work. When your work aligns with your values, engagement and satisfaction increase.
What You’ll Gain
When you’re invited to complete TMS Global assessments by your organisation, you’ll get a lot of useful insight:
Clear understanding of your work preferences and strengths
Insight into how others perceive your work style
Practical strategies for working with different preferences
Language to discuss work preferences without judgment
Awareness of your opportunity/obstacle orientation and how to manage it
Understanding of your core work values
Tools for having productive conversations about collaboration
Your Toolkit
Team Management Profile (TMP)
Your foundation for self-awareness
- Detailed personal profile report
- Practical tips for working with different preferences make it easier to understand yourself and work better with others in any setting.
- Team role identification helps people work better with others, but also prompts reflection on how to understand yourself.
Opportunities-Obstacles Quotient Profile (QO2)
Understand your response to change and uncertainty
- Shows how you perceive risk and opportunity—an important way to understand yourself so you can work better with colleagues.
- Helps you navigate uncertainty and transformation more effectively as you focus on understanding yourself and finding ways to work better with your team members.
- Practical strategies for decision-making encourage you to both understand yourself and work better with others no matter the scenario.
Window on Work Values Profile (WoWV)
Discover what drives you
- Reveals your core work values, supporting your ability to work better with others while deepening understanding of yourself.
- Helps you understand what matters most to you and gives guidance so you can work better with others as well.
- Guides decisions about work and career, which allows you to understand yourself and equips you to work better with others.
Team Signals
Contribute to team improvement
- Quick diagnostic on team functioning—this helps everyone to work better with others and encourages self-understanding.
- Your input shapes your team development, reflecting how you can understand yourself in relation to working better with others.
- Track how your team improves over time—this process supports your journey to understand yourself and work better with others in evolving contexts.
How to Access TMS Global
Have you been asked to complete a TMS Global Assessment? Access the platform to take your assessment or use some of the tools at your disposal.
Go to the Respondent Platform
Access the platform directly to complete your assessment.
Through Your Organisation
Does your organisation offer TMS Global assessments through your HR or L&D teams? Ask your manager or HR about team development programs.
If your organisation doesn’t currently use TMS Global, you can suggest it. Share this page with your manager or HR.
Through a Practitioner
Connect with a local TMS Global practitioner.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this like a personality test?
It is similar, but the focus is different. TMS Global gives you awareness of work preferences. That means it looks at how you approach work, without looking at your fixed personality traits. Your preferences can develop and adapt to different situations. With our assessments you will get practical insights, suggestions for growth areas, tips for better collaboration with others, plus resources to help you understand yourself and work better with your team, as well as awareness of blind spots and strengths.
How long does the assessment take?
The Team Management Profile takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete online. Other assessments vary but are similarly accessible. Completing these is a great first step if you want to truly understand yourself and work better with others in the workplace.
Will my results be shared with my manager?
TMS Global is committed to high ethical standards and maintaining the confidentiality of your assessment results. The facilitator conducting your session will review your profile with you privately. Let your facilitator know if you do not wish to have your profile shared with anyone else – including your manager. This approach helps everyone understand themselves and work better with others in a supportive environment.
Assessment is designed to be a tool for your personal development and self-awareness. For the assessment to be most valuable, you need to feel safe answering honestly without concern that your responses will be used against you in performance evaluations or other employment decisions. Ultimately, this process helps you work better with others because you understand yourself.
While you control whether results are shared, many participants find value in discussing relevant insights with their managers as part of development conversations. This is entirely your choice and should be done in a way that supports your growth and career goals as you learn to understand yourself and work better with others.
If your organisation is using TMP assessments, they may receive aggregate, anonymised data for organisational development purposes, but individual results remain confidential unless you consent to sharing them. This ensures that you retain the opportunity to understand yourself and work better with your colleagues in a safe way.
If you have concerns about how your results might be used in your specific organisational context, we encourage you to discuss these with your facilitator or HR representative before completing the assessment. Open communication is vital in helping everyone in your organisation understand yourself and work better with others.
What if I do not like my results?
There are no good or bad profiles. Every work preference has strengths. TMS Global Profiles don’t measure ability, intelligence, or competence—they identify your natural work preferences. The aim is to provide the foundation needed to understand yourself and work better with others.
All preference patterns have inherent strengths and potential blind spots. What matters most is self-awareness and knowing how to leverage your natural strengths in a way that allows you to work better with others and at the same time understand yourself.
Your debriefing session with a trained facilitator is specifically designed to help you:
- Understand the nuances of your profile so you can work better with others while understanding yourself.
- Identify the strengths within your preference pattern and discover more about how to understand yourself to work better with others in a team.
- Recognise how your preferences show up in real work situations, which gives you the ability to understand yourself and work better with others.
- Develop strategies for situations that require you to flex outside your natural style; this will help you understand yourself and work better with colleagues.
- Appreciate how your unique combination of preferences adds value to teams and gives you the opportunity to understand yourself and work better with others at the same time.
Effective teams need people with different work preferences. What might feel like a limitation in one context is often exactly what’s needed in another. The goal is to gain true self-insight: understand yourself fully so you can work better with others and find greater satisfaction in your career.
Can this help my career?
Yes, understanding your work preferences helps you make better career decisions, communicate your strengths and find roles that energise rather than drain you. Ultimately, the process is about your ability to understand yourself and work better with others in every work situation.