Profiles | this thinking

This collection of radar plots represents the relative strengths of different people across six thinking skills.

A custom survey tool collects data on each person's preferences and abilities for different thinking skills. Here, six have been selected for illustration. Their individual profiles can be inspected, with pop-ups revealing their 'scores' for each dimension. Their collective profile can be viewed by selecting combined plots. The teams they belong to (here, Legal and Finance) can be filtered for to examine profiles of sub-groups. (Note that this plot, and that below, use data that are not associated with real people.)

In large groups or organisations, individual profile data can be sorted in various ways...

This configurable dashboard represents each person in an organisation as a dot; each dot can be grouped, shaded, sized and compared on multiple variables.

Depending on what is being assessed, different visualisations can be produced. For example, try grouping by team, shading by qualifications and comparing by strength. Such dashboard views provided a foundation for discussing issues such as resourcing, training and team composition.

Having explored how the thinking skills of individuals and groups can be represented, why not examine the meanings these terms have, or their relations to each other?