It’s what you don’t know that really limits your ability to hire, place, manage and develop team members successfully.

A very real challenge business owners face in building a solid team is a lack of credible, unbiased information. When considering the future growth of your business, having clear, unbiased and accurate information that positions you to build and develop the best team possible is a key ingredient to your success.

Are you looking for a way to hire correctly the first time, reduce turnover and increase retention?

Do you wish you had access to clear-cut information that would allow you to place your team members in positions where they would be the most effective and the happiest?

Do you want to enhance engagement and productivity?

Would discovering the specific areas for the training and professional development that would deliver the greatest return on your investment appeal to you?

If you answered yes to any one of these questions, then accurate, nonbiased, comprehensive and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission compliant assessments may be just what you need.

There are five key assessments that lead the charge when building a great team is your intent:

• Behaviors (DISC): Behavioral assessments and effective training position individuals to gain more understanding of themselves and others. With this, they come to appreciate the differences in people and can adapt their communication style for more effective communication.

Team members are also exposed to their time wasters, areas to improve and how they break down under pressure. When combined with effective coaching, team members learn how to manage these for superior performance.

The assessment results enhance the hiring process by revealing how an individual is likely to perform.

• Driving Forces (Motivators): An assessment that measures one’s driving forces helps illuminate and amplify a person’s motivating factors. Motivators can be referred to as the aspects of life that you are passionate about, things that you perceive as important, or the thoughts that provide you with purpose and direction in life. Motivators are the drivers of our behavior or what motivates our actions.

By combining coaching, training and the knowledge of motivators, you can position and encourage team members in ways that satisfy their inner drive right from the start. The results will benefit hiring and coaching initiatives by revealing why individuals act the way they do or what motivates their behavior.

• Emotional Intelligence: An EQ assessment helps identify how well a person is able to manage emotions and impact relationships with others. It looks at a person’s emotional intelligence, which is the ability to sense, understand and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate higher levels of collaboration and productivity.
• Business Acumen Indicator: This assessment is unique in its ability to assess how astutely a person analyzes and interprets their experiences. A person’s acumen, or keenness and depth of perception or discernment, is directly related to their level of performance. The stronger a person’s acumen, the more aware they are of their reality in both their external and internal world and the better they are at responding effectively to them.

This report gives insight into the thought processes of the individual that affect performance and reveals what they can do, describing their capacity for superior performance.

• Competencies: This assessment describes what an individual’s strengths are in 25 research-based capacities, or personal skills, that directly relate to the business environment. The top skills outlined in the report highlight individuals’ well-developed capabilities and reveal the areas where they are most effective.

The results also provide a straightforward and easy way to close the gaps in competencies that are necessary for top performance. When used as a benchmarking tool, this component helps ensure the inherent skills of each individual match the personal skills required by the job.

This suite of powerful assessments provides business owners and managers with high quality, unbiased information that is critical in hiring, placing, managing and developing team members successfully. They provide a level of understanding and clarity that you and your team cannot get anywhere else.

This powerful information, when combined with professional development and training, creates greater buy-in and enhances communication and teamwork while increasing productivity, job satisfaction and talent retention.

When administered properly, the positive impact of these assessments on business performance is exceptional.

If you are going to hire effectively, understand where the gaps in ability exist, manage from a better understanding of your people, train with the greatest impact, retain talent and build a team of top performers, then high-quality assessments are essential to your success.