PROPHET Senior Team Profiling
Our senior team profiling process transforms how people communicate, make timely decisions, leverage strengths, value difference and pull together under pressure, ultimately creating greater value and business success.
This assessment and profining tool was designed specifically for senior leadership teams in a commercial environment and aligns to the four stages of the business development cycle – Create, Design, Operate and Improve.
PROPHET Assessment
PROPHET is an assessment tool to help senior teams understand how to get the best from everyone and form the right relationships to significantly enhance performance. It also helps individuals understand their style of working and implications for working with others. Finally, it helps organisations understand the potential of their people to execute business strategy.
PROPHET was developed by a consulting firm that advised businesses on how to leverage relationships to drive results. They recognised that senior leaders would benefit from insight tools in developing and implementing strategy.
PROPHET assessments and reports are developed and managed by PROPHET Profiling and is registered by the British Psychological Society.
Who will benefit from PROPHET
Situations where team profiling provides significant benefit include:
- New teams where collaborative relationships have not yet been established and the team is not yet aligned
- Established teams needing to refocus after a change such as a new strategic plan
- Senior teams that need to step up to a higher level of performance
- Two or more teams that need to come together and work as one team
- Teams formed from more than one organisation such as after a merger, acquisition, joint venture or alliance
An introduction to PROPHET
PROPHET follows the four stages in the business activity cycle: generating new ideas, turning them into workable plans, delivering on these plans and then improving them. The PROPHET schema is made up of 16 different Business Roles that a successful business is likely to need.
Using the assessment tool, individuals on the team are mapped to these roles and responsibilities. The 16 PROPHET Roles align to the four stages of business, looking at the extent to which people prefer to be Creative, to Design, to Operate or Improve within a business.
PROPHET helps people understand when it is time to leverage their own preferences within the business cycle and when it is time to leverage those of others.
Insight Reports
There are four key reports which are used to review team potential:
- Individual Insight report – one per team member
- Team Insight report – one per team or sub-group
- Pivotal Relationship Report – used to explore the working relationship between two individuals (optional)
- Organisational Insight Report – used to explore potential to implement business strategy (optional)
A typical PROPHET assessment
We find the PROPHET assessment and reports extremely valuable in senior team coaching assignments. Unlike other individual and team assessments, it is designed from first principles for a business context at senior level.
Where we believe PROPHET will add value, we propose the use of the assessment, explaining the methodology and providing sample reports for review. The individual team members complete an online assessment (available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) which is managed by Prophet Profiling. We then provide the Team and Individual reports for review. Usually, we will facilitate a discussion of the results with the team. Based on the team review of the reports we will then plan further workshops and individual coaching to address the agreed areas of over- or under-strength within the team.
Olwyn Merritt is an accredited PROPHET Practitioner.
You leave the team in a much stronger state than when you joined us...
Having you participate in the Team has really been very valuable. Having an impartial referee who has the right level of “presence” and gravitas calling out where things are working well as well as challenging us has enabled us to take our weaknesses onboard rather than skipping over the issues and not addressing it. Thank you for your tenacity and sticking to the challenging task in hand – you leave the team in a much stronger state than when you joined us – Thank You !!
Andy Lawrence, Head of Production Services
Maersk