Overview
The Thomas Indicator Profile® (TIP)
goes to the core source of a person’s uniqueness and creativity - the
brain. Recent neuroscience findings support the critical role the brain
plays in everything we do. Each person is unique. Through TIP each
person can understand how that uniqueness is created and how to
intentionally apply the knowledge with appropriate, brain-based, customized
strategies.
TIP is a cognitive assessment based on
neuroscience findings and learning theory combined with 25 years of
research and business application from the work of Jan Thomas, cofounder
of CereCore® Institute. The profile’s 10
short activities are designed to illuminate the core thinking groups
unique to every person. This core information is translated into
innovative, strategic, and tactical tools for today's organizations and professionals.
TIP particularly assesses an individual’s potential for associational thinking by assessing the various components of a person’s working memory
- from visual and spatial processing to visual and auditory sequencing
of information to central executive (planning and organizing) to
monitoring task difficulty. Working memory is the platform for
associational thinking. TIP has been validated to measure all of these
components reliably.
Benefits
For organizations: TIP offers a profiling
approach that is comparatively unique through its incorporation of
explicit cognitive processing capabilities involving working memory and
associational thinking. The possibility exists for utilizing TIP to
validate workplace capabilities distinct from (and potentially more
important than) those instruments based predominantly on personality
self-assessments or on a person’s subjective perceptions of themselves.
For individuals:The ability to accurately
monitor one’s own basic level, cognitive performance is a
unique measure TIP provides for distinguishing people based on their
cognitive capabilities, again offering a potential predictor of a
person’s workplace talents and contributions.
Characteristics
Uniqueness
is evident in the possibility that not one in 5.5 million reports will
be exactly the same. This is no cookie-cutter approach.
Iformation about personal thinking
approaches is of little value if it cannot be applied easily,
practically and rapidly for results. TIP does just that – it bridges
solid theory and real world needs.
- TIP reports are purposely concise, highly
visual, and web-like so people can “get it” rapidly without losing the
depth of insight. Using a technique that taps into each person’s
associational memory, recipients are able to rapidly integrate the
insights and immediately apply customized strategies and tools with
confidence. TIP is used nationally and internationally by businesses and
individuals who want high quality information and effective strategies.
Each of the three TIP reports has a different focus:
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- Foundation - for teams and innovation development
- Leader - for leadership coaching and development
- Career -for strategic career management or transition
- Uses
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- Building high performance teams through a thinking infrastructure for innovation
- Leadership coaching using the cognitive platform
- Strategic career management and transitions
- The Thomas Indicator Profile® is unique in the field of assessments
- TIP is 70% objective in a field where the 100%
subjective question format is most common and people respond
from personal experience only. As a result, TIP reduces the possibility
of assessment answer manipulation or responses of how a person would
like to be seen rather than how he/she really is.
- TIP results are both highly accurate and stay
in range over time unlike behavior responses used in many assessments which can
vary and provide less reliable data for skill development.
- The high level of objectivity of TIP sets the
foundation for customized strategies that work with success the first
time - building confidence and ongoing use from the start.
Contact us for information on individual and group use of TIP and supporting materials.