Assessing a team’s profile with an emphasis upon creativity

 ASD Metal Services is the UK’s largest independent multi-metal stockholding and distribution operation, with over 100,000 tonnes of metals in stock at any one time.

The HR team of ASD was keen to explore how psychometric assessment could be used to help better understand themselves and each other, and to create a clearer sense of team identity. The team wished to have an action plan which would build on the identified strengths of each individual. Pauline Garnett, the Group HR Manager, said: ‘We were also particularly interested in gauging our innovation and creativity, a quality of increasing importance as we respond to the varied challenges we face within ASD.’

The process was facilitated by Informed Assessment over the course of a day. The event consisted of an introduction and overview to what makes an effective team, the administration and scoring of two psychometric assessments - a personality questionnaire and a test of occupational creativity - followed by individual and team reviews of the results.

Towards the end of the day, the questionnaire outputs were used to derive Belbin team types to capture differing team styles and contributions in an accessible way.

The team was facilitated to review members’ relative strengths and areas for development, and an action plan was discussed and agreed to ensure that learning from the session was carried back to the ‘day jobs’ and gave a practical framework to help improve team effectiveness.

Reflecting afterwards on the day, Pauline Garnett said:  
 

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‘The session gave us practical and powerful insights into our individual styles, our team strengths and areas for development. We also identified some realistic ways that we can collectively build on our different strengths.’