Recently, the Highlands Company has expanded its training of Affiliates to include group feedback. In similar or homogeneous groups with common interests and objectives – college-bound students, individuals with a common profession (e.g., lawyers), the staff of a corporate department, corporate managers, etc. – this is a highly effective alternative to individual feedbacks.
Before the group feedback begins, the Highlands Affiliate receives a Team Profile and a Frequency Distribution Report. The Team Profile relates the worksample scores by the individuals in the group to functions such as Teaching, Motivating, Communicating, Diagnostic Problem Solving, etc. The individuals in the group are divided for each worksample into Strong Scorers, Borderline Scorers and Low-Match Scorers. Then their scores are averaged to create the Team Profile.
The Frequency Distribution Report shows the distribution of individual scores into low, medium and high, in three separate areas — Personal Style (Generalist/Specialist; Extrovert/Introvert; Time Frame); Driving Abilities (Classification; Concept Organization; Idea Productivity; Spatial Relations Theory; and Spatial Relations Visualization); and Specialized Abilities (Design Memory; Observation; Visual Speed, etc.).
Armed with these reports, the Affiliate is able to conduct a group workshop or feedback, explaining the results and meaning of the Battery to the individuals in the group. In corporate groups, the Affiliate explains how the results can influence the conduct of the group and their ability to work together for common goals.
