WSA Group Profiles
What are Group Profiles?
WSA Group Profiles are a mathematically accurate summary of the results of at least 5 WSA individual profiles. Preferences, non-preferences and flexibilities of all group members are shown in graphs as percentages with interpretations. Particularly meaningful is the section Combined Group Strength with interpretations of the individual stylistic elements that make up the unique strength of this group.
This information is particularly important for trainers and team leaders.
In addition, group profiles contain individual results, which show the entire WSA profile of each individual group member encrypted and anonymized in an overview.
On the last page, in each Group Profile, there is a complete list of names of all group members with references to highly analytical and holistic tendencies as well as possible learning and concentration problems.
The evaluation can be used to identify the shared working style strengths, weaknesses and preferences of all team members. Based on this information, the results can be used to support team building and improve communication and collaboration within the team.
WSA Group Profiles can also be used as a basis for creating individual development plans or to identify potential additions or changes in a team to promote optimal team composition and performance.
How to create Group Profiles:
1. You must have at least 5 complete individual profiles of the same WSA instrument to create a Group pProfile in your web account.
2. Go to the 'My Account' section and click on 'Manage my existing profiles' and on the 'Saved Profiles' page, select the WSA instrument from which you want to create a Group Profile. Select the names of the desired participants that you want to combine into a group. On the right-hand side, click on 'Create Group Profile'. You will now see some fields where you need to enter information about the group.
3. Once you have entered the required information, click on 'Create Group Profile'.
4. Immediately this message will appear on the screen: 'Group Profile has been successfully created' and it will be saved in your account. To print, click on 'Download Group Profile'.
Learning in the Workplace:
Micro Content Personalized – Even for Groups
by Barbara Prashnig
With our Personal Assessment Software WSA we have - maybe for the first time - a tool that goes far beyond psychological and cognitive features of a person, giving profound and detailed insight into biological needs (like the need for sound, light, temperature, work area, movement, intake, time of day and sensory modalities), and how human brains function when it comes to thinking, problem solving and absorbing new and difficult information. What’s more, this new self-knowledge reshapes old beliefs about an individual’s own learning ability. However, all that important information how to work and learn more effectively, is not only available for individual people - it’s also available as information about whole groups, teams, or classes through our WSA Group Profiles. In addition, this new self-awareness changes old ideas about a person's own ability to learn. However, all important information on how you can work and learn more effectively is not only available to individuals, but is also available as information about entire groups, teams or classes via the WSA Group Profiles.
In order to optimize the learning potential of whole groups, such group results provide valuable insights into human diversity as well as the actual learning needs of individual group members. This is particularly useful for managers, trainers, team leaders, group facilitators, and workshop leaders in regular group learning sessions. And here is my suggestion for the future: when Micro Content is personalized for groups of people who share the same or similar learning preferences within their groups, information intake and processing is made significantly easier and faster, memory and thinking power is increased, self-esteem can be (re)built, stress reduced and performance improvement in the work place is guaranteed.
As people are the greatest asset of any organisation, we need to know what makes them tick, what keeps them going and what switches them off. We need better knowledge at this micro level of human performance, about biological needs and resulting personal behaviour. Unless companies know what styles of learning and working their employees have, they will continue to invest money in expensive training programmes that have little or no long-term effect and hardly generate the desired outcomes.
Chief executives, managers, human resource officers, supervisors, trainers and educators need to know what styles the people in their organisations and classrooms have and how to accommodate these style needs particularly in MicroLearning. The long-term outcome of such new individualised or personalized training approaches based on Style Diversity is fast knowledge build-up, sustained optimisation of job performance and desired successful professional change.
