Linking Skills are the activities and behaviors that managers and others need to exhibit in order to successfully integrate and coordinate the work of a team. These skills were identified through extensive interviews with teams and team leaders worldwide. Data collected from, for example, banking teams, engineering teams, administrative teams, marketing teams, production teams, and research teams, in the private and public sectors, highlighted a number of common elements that were responsible for integrating a team into a coherent 'whole'.
Team Management Systems has three versions of the Linking Skills Profile Questionnaire. Version 1 is the Linking of People Profile Questionnaire and contains 36-items suitable for all team members. Version 2 is the 66-item Linking of People and Tasks Profile Questionnaire, ideal for senior team members. Version 3 is the Linking Leader Profile Questionnaire especially designed for team leaders. It uses 78-items to assess all Linking Skills.
All three versions are multi-rater assessments where a number of different people rate an individual's Linking Skills.