Personnel assessments are an effective tool for improving the management of an organization. Let's say you're fully staffed. New hires aren't in the picture, yet things aren't exactly humming along. Assessments can help you better manage the staff you have by determining if people are in the optimum positions.
Personnel assessments can provide an accurate analysis of an employee's behavior and attitudes. Assessment Pros will help you use assessments and apply the information they gather for the most effective management of your organization.
For example, "job match" is the critical factor in turning a good person into a great employee. When a person's position calls on their native occupational interests, thinking abilities and behavioral traits, they are happy and perform well in their work.
When training, I sometimes find myself in a classroom full of eager students, yet I'm struck with the realization that the training won't make a difference in the work performance of some of them. The reason? They are a terrible "fit" for the role or position they are in, something training doesn't address or fix.
In a study published in the Harvard Business Review, some 300,000 subjects were evaluated for job performance. The study considered factors ranging from age, sex and race to education and experience. The study found that there was no statistical difference EXCEPT in the area of job match. The conclusion? That an employee's success in any given job was determined not by education or experience but on how well their personality as matched with their work.
With personnel assessments, you have the information you need to match each person with the work that calls on their skills and abilities. You'll put the right person in the right job, and avoid promoting otherwise excellent employees into roles they cannot perform satisfactorily.
Parents often lament that new babies don't come with instruction manuals. as someone that manages employees, you probably feel much the same way. Yet a proper assessment is very much like an instruction manual, giving you personalized information on individual employees that allows you to make decisions based on their talents and strengths.
Using assessments to make decisions about what position to place an employee in results in markedly increased productivity while reducing employee turnover. Stress and tension on your team is reduced, as are overall human resources expenses.
Assessments are critical when you want to:
- put your people into positions that make the most of their talents and strengths
- provide employees with the most effective training
- help manager become more effective
- promote people into positions where they will succeed
At Assessments Pros, we recognize that many companies today have very lean Human Resources departments–if they have one at all. We're prepared to fill the gaps, serving on an as-needed basis while providing you with the resources you need to better manage the employees you have. We can help you:
1. Develop and Retain Your People
Management Team:
- identify and develop management training needs
- work together as a more as a team
Current Employees:
- awareness and understanding of company’s goals/objective
- increase skills such as project management
New Hires:
- select the “right” candidate
- develop a 60 – 90 day evaluation of how they are doing
- ramp up new employees quicker with greater insight
2. Revise Performance Review Process
- Create goals and objectives
- Communicate objectives to employees with clear and consistent feedback
3. Create HR Metrics
- Requisition to hire date statistics
- Turnover / Retention data
The best methodology for using assessments is:
- Select the correct assessment – Choose the best one to gather necessary information within an organization
- Educate users so the assessment information is used appropriately.
- Implement the assessment data in the most practical way for your business.
Assessments Pros has been helping clients choose the right assessment tools since 1992. We have the expertise to help you find the right tool for your needs and apply them in away that returns the most benefits for your business.
We will help you:
1. Set up your assessment center. This role assists in the selection and procurement of the assessment tool(s) needed for the purposes outlined above.
2. Assist and/or provide training to those required to understand and use the assessment tool(s) and the resulting information. This can be done via telephone, webinars and/or on-site training.
Let's talk about the ways Assessment Pros can help your businesses develop and motivate the most productive team. Call today– Jennifer Leake at 866-373-0300–or click here to send email.
Jennifer Leake is a Certified Management Consultant CMC®. The certification mark awarded by the Institute of Management Consultants USA, represents the highest global standards and ethical canons of the profession. Fewer than 1% of all consultants have achieved this level of excellence.
