Assessments

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Organizations need their leaders to be aligned and work together at the highest performance levels. To that end, employee assessments can give organizations and their managers consistent, in-depth, and objective information about their people. This includes the employee’s:

• Fit with organizational culture, job, leader, and team
• Knowledge, skills, job performance, and developmental needs
• Preferred learning and communication style
• Integrity, reliability, work ethic, and attitude toward substance abuse
• Response to conflict, stress, and frustration

Information uncovered from assessments helps leaders rely less on gut instinct and make smarter people's decisions. The specific benefits include:

• Selecting people most likely to succeed in a job
• Accelerating time for people to become fully productive in a new role
• Improving alignment and communication between managers and employees
• Reducing workforce conflict and improving employee satisfaction
• Maximizing each employee’s contribution to the organization
• Reducing employee absenteeism and turnover
• Reducing frequency and cost of theft
• Increasing sales performance and customer loyalty
• Enabling strategic workforce management and succession planning
• Increasing overall workforce capability, productivity, and agility

Although an HR department may manage the day-to-day administration of an assessment program, these initiatives thrive in the organization when sponsored by senior leaders committed to building and retaining a high-performing workforce.