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TAIS ASSESSMENT FOR ATHLETES
Understand your patterns. Make your mental training more specific.
The Attentional and Interpersonal Style inventory—TAIS—helps you understand your attention, information processing and interpersonal tendencies. Review your results with Kate Allgood and connect those insights to how you prepare, respond and perform in your sport.
Start with a complimentary conversation about your goals and the coaching approach that fits.
WHAT IS THE TAIS ASSESSMENT?
TAIS is an online questionnaire that explores attentional and interpersonal characteristics relevant to performance. These include tendencies in concentration, distraction, decision-making and interaction with others.
Your results provide a profile that we interpret alongside your experiences and the demands of your sport. Together, we explore where your tendencies support you, where they may create
challenges and what would be useful to train
Developed by psychologist Dr. Robert Nideffer, TAIS has been applied in sport, business and military settings. At Quantum Performance, the emphasis is on translating your profile into practical direction for your development
WHAT CAN TAIS HELP YOU UNDERSTAND?
You may want to understand why your focus changes in competition, why you get caught in overthinking or what helps you perform well. TAIS provides a structured starting point for exploring these questions
The goal is to identify what you can build on and give your mental training a clearer direction.
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ATTENTION & DISTRACTIONS
Explore how you tend to direct your attention and how thoughts, feelings or activity around you can pull it away. Connect those tendencies to the focus your sport requires.
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RESPONSES UNDER PRESSURE
Connect your profile to situations where expectations, intensity or uncertainty rise. Identify patterns worth observing and relevant skills to train for those moments.
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INFORMATION PROCESSING & DECISIONS
Understand your tendencies toward analysis, awareness and attention to detail. Explore when those tendencies support your decisions and when you may need to shift your focus.
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COMMUNICATION & INTERPERSONAL STYLE
Explore how you tend to express ideas, respond to feedback and interact with others. Use that understanding to support communication with coaches, teammates and the people involved in your development.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN YOUR TAIS ASSESSMENT?
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ONLINE ASSESSMENT
Complete the questionnaire online at a time when you can give it your full attention. Respond to statements about your typical thoughts and behaviors to create your individual profile.
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INDIVIDUAL DEBRIEF WITH KATE
Meet one-to-one with Kate Allgood, a certified TAIS interpreter, to review your results. Connect the findings to your experiences in training and competition, ask questions and explore what they mean for your development.
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TAIS REPORT
Receive your individual report outlining your attentional and interpersonal profile. Your debrief helps you understand the findings and gives you context to return to as you continue training.
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PERSONALIZED TRAINING DIRECTION
Identify relevant priorities and practical next steps based on your profile, goals and sport. Leave with a clearer understanding of what to observe, what to train and how to begin applying the insights.
TURN YOUR ASSESSMENT INSIGHTS INTO TRAINING
Understanding your profile gives you direction. Training helps you develop the skills to apply it. We connect the assessment findings to specific practices relevant to your performance.
You can continue developing through one-to-one coaching or use resources within The Athlete Within® online platform to support independent training. We discuss a suitable next step based on your goals.
Depending on your needs, that training may include:
Directing and shifting attention to match the task.
Returning your focus after internal or external distractions.
Developing preparation routines for demanding situations.
Managing activation and practicing responses to pressure.
Rehearsing decisions and responses through mental imagery.
Strengthening communication and your response to feedback.
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM TAIS?
ATHLETES
For athletes who want a clearer understanding of their performance patterns and more specific mental training. Explore strengths you can build on, challenges you want to address and how your tendencies relate to the demands of your sport.
COACHES
For coaches interested in understanding their own attention, decision-making and interpersonal tendencies, or exploring how individual athlete profiles can inform coaching and communication.
TEAMS & ORGANIZATIONS
For teams seeking greater understanding of individual differences in attention and interpersonal style. Assessment insights can inform development conversations, communication and how people function together.
Individual assessments and team arrangements are discussed separately so the process fits the people and goals involved.
REVIEW YOUR RESULTS WITH KATE ALLGOOD.
Kate is a certified TAIS interpreter, mental performance coach and former collegiate and professional hockey player. She brings more than 16 years of coaching experience and two master’s degrees—in Applied Sport Psychology and General Psychology—to her work with athletes.
Her experience includes four seasons as a mental performance consultant with the AHL’s San Diego Gulls. She helps athletes connect assessment findings to their experiences and turn those insights into relevant mental training.
EXPERIENCE WITH TAIS INTERPRETATION
"Kate's extensive experience as a practitioner and elite athlete provide her with the ability to effectively communicate the results of TAIS in a manner that's relevant and applicable for both athletes and coaches."
-David Urquhart,
Head Coach McGill University Men's Hockey Team
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