Corporate Assessment Savvy
Most of us use assessments to help us understand ourselves and those we are working with. Most employers use one or more assessments in their hiring processes.
But are you getting the most out of your investment as an individual or a corporation? Many assessments are costly in the time it takes for the employee or prospective employee to take as well as the time and money it takes to train your HR personnel to interpret and interview around the assessment. Then there is the cost of the assessment itself – some are as much as $200 – $300 each.
Ask the right questions about your assessments –
The most critical questions are . . .
- What are we really getting out of our investment? Usually you get a general picture of the person’s personality which is a product of his/her nurture, experience and training not a true picture of their core hard wiring.
- Does the assessment assure that we will be matching the person to the job and allow us to put the right person in the right seat a majority of the time?
- Is the assessment highly subjective (a long set of scenario based questions)? These types of questions are so subjective they allow for a broad range of ‘honest’ answers that make the person look great for just about any job?
- Is the assessment highly objective, being void of subjective scenarios?
- Is the assessment actually measuring what is critical for us to know in order to make a strong / positive hire that will guarantee a ‘fit’ for both the person and the company?
- Is it possible to use the assessment to evaluate and clarify every position in the company? This would allow you to match the person with the position with a high degree of accuracy.
These are important questions and millions of dollars and hours are spent trying to make good placements that honor both the individual and the company. Sadly, statistics show that turnover and employee satisfaction are issues that cost corporations of all sizes incredible amounts of time and money. (Not to mention the accelerated ageing of HR directors and department heads.)
Assessments that tell you ‘what a person should be’ are interesting but seldom helpful. The reason is because within any field or business there are numerous ‘types’ of individuals needed to make the team ‘work’. If you look at a car or a plane or even a human body, at first glance they seem to be a singular unit but we know that they are all made up of unique and specialized ‘parts’ and that when one of those parts is in the wrong place our not working efficiently it affects the productivity of the whole unit. It’s the same with a business.
What should your assessment tell you?
Bottom line is that a good assessment will reveal ‘who’ a person is. It will measure the ‘Innate Core Hard-wiring’ of an individual because it’s at that level that a person has to ‘fit’ the job and culture. We miss the mark when we hire on the basis of anything else and that costs us incredible amounts of time, money and corporate upheaval.
Understanding the unique ‘unchanging’ core hard-wiring of the individual is what will allow the business to place them in the right place doing the right thing.
At ExecuChart™ we use the powerful Core Values Index™. We are able to assess your entire workforce as well as your prospective hires so that you have the right people, in the right place, doing the right things and actually staying there and enjoying it.
Contact me at bob@execuchart.com