Successful team members don’t do the same thing at the same time. They do the right thing at the right time. The Team Dimensions Profile helps individuals work from theirstrengths by identifying their most natural team role, while giving them added appreciation for the contributions of others.

The Team Dimensions Profile identifies the following five team roles:

• Creators generate new ideas and fresh concepts.
• Advancers communicate new ideas and carry them forward.
• Refiners analyze ideas for flaws or revise projects systematically.
• Executors deliver concrete results and seek successful implementations.
• Flexers have an equal preference for most or all of the roles and can often adapt their styles to fit the team’s needs.

Organizations use the Team Dimensions Profile to match individual strengths with team roles, build team unity, foster innovation, shorten project cycle time, and reduce conflict.

As organizations rely more on teams to innovate, problem-solve, produce, and compete at the speed of change, understanding and capitalizing on individual approaches to group processes is the bottom line on creating high-performance teams.