Your Thomas Profile is a treasure trove of insights on how you like to work. They’re only available to your colleagues if you choose to share them – but once you share your profile with your colleagues, you can use these insights to build real connection.
We built the worlds-first connection platform, Thomas Connect, because we realized that you could use our insights in a whole new way. Not only can you use psychometric assessments to supercharge your recruitment processes, you can also use them to create a sense of trust, respect and connection within your teams.
The world of work is different since the pandemic. We have more workers who are remote or hybrid, teams scattered all over the world connecting via instant messaging or video calls and some colleagues never meeting face-to-face. The typical team building activities are harder to do virtually, and sometimes getting everyone in the same room just isn’t feasible. Thomas Connect is something that can be with you every day, not just once a year as part of a team building activity. It can support you throughout your career, if you move teams, if you get a new manager or even if you become a manger for the first time yourself. It’s there to provide tools to really connect with your colleagues in any situation you need it to.
But enough about what it can do, let’s talk about how it works. So, you have your profile bursting with all of the insights about how you like to work. Communication style, how you like to receive information, how you collaborate, what your strengths are... these will give you a new level of self-awareness that will aid your career development and success in your role. The real magic happens when you share it with your colleagues. Then, you can use the Colleague Compare tool to see how you and certain team members differ, how you can work to your combined strengths and tailored advice from our team of Psychologists on what to bear in mind when working together. By looking at this information and adapting your own behavior to work better together, you start to build trust and respect. Without these insights, this can take months.
These only have to be small changes too. You might discover through your Thomas Connect profile that you like to be spontaneous in meetings, you work best in a brainstorm environment and highly value interactions between you and your fellow team members. When comparing to a colleague, you could see that they are more methodical, they need an agenda before the meeting so they can prepare, and they like to have a clear list of actions at the end, so they know what the next steps are. This example shows two pretty different people – but if you know this about each other then they could make an excellent team as they both excel in the setting that the other isn’t naturally drawn to.
You can gain this comparison in a team setting too with our Teams profile. Here, you can build a team of up to thirty people and receive tailored advice on how the team can work best together and where potential pitfalls may lie. By giving this tool to an entire team, everyone can see what each person brings to the table. There is no right or wrong answer, and you won’t find any negative language anywhere within our platform. Thomas Connect is there to celebrate everyone’s differences and channel these to build a productive, successful team built on a solid foundation of trust, respect and connection.
