Assessment tool: This is how you start improving your team.
- Are the employees in your team your most important asset?
- Do you invest in their development?
- Do you know exactly what makes them successful?
- Do you know what you need to do as a leader to motivate them?
I am often asked to optimize individuals and teams. But where do you start? It’s essential to know what the goal is, but it’s also important to know the exact starting point.
For this, I use an assessment tool in organizations as an objective measurement and starting point.
Three factors play a significant role in the success of your employees:
- How do they behave under different circumstances?
- What drives and motivates them, in short, their drivers?
- Their skills and talents.
With the latest online assessment tool from TTI Success Insights, it is now possible to make drivers and talents visible. The insights from this report enable the recipient and the leader to improve the performance of the individual or the team. It also provides the opportunity to match the right person to the right role. Each person receives a report based on the assessment instrument that is 46 pages long!
I know you’re thinking: “Wow, Gwen, what’s included in that report?” Here are a few examples of chapters: your value to the organization, communication tips (what to do and not to do with you), how you see yourself and how others see you, your time-wasters, your behavioral preferences, your behavior under pressure/stress, your key drivers, and what the combination of your behavior and your drivers means for you.
Drivers
What are drivers? Behavior shows what you do, and your drivers determine the why of our actions. Drivers are also known as hidden motivators because they are usually not visible or difficult to see for others. Sometimes they are even unclear to ourselves. They significantly determine why and when someone takes action and the choices they make in their (work) environment. Within organizations, this provides insight into the stimuli an employee needs to enjoy and find satisfaction in their work. In short, it is perhaps the most important foundation for being motivated to work every day and taking extra steps that lead to optimal performance.
I use this assessment tool for (among other things):
- performance improvement
- team development
- recruitment and selection
- creating complementary teams, putting the right person in the right place
- changes in your organizational culture
- career development
- assessment processes
It is always a means, never an end in itself. Some clients sometimes ask just to do such a test – an assessment tool – without follow-up. That makes no sense. It is important to have a clear goal: what do you want to achieve with the employee(s) and/or the team within the organization? The assessment tool is a starting point; it is the photo, the baseline measurement, the mirror. There must always be a feedback session and/or follow-up training linked to it. Otherwise, I think it’s a waste of money, and you’re better off doing nothing.
How can I give you insight into yourself and your team?
My offer:
Until summer – June 21, 2015 – I offer you a unique opportunity to get acquainted with this assessment tool and experience how you can use it: for yourself or for one of your employees. You will receive a digital and printed report and a (Skype or live) explanation and feedback session of two hours, including improvement tips. Until the mentioned date, you will receive 20% discount, and your investment will be only €815. Appointments will be made in the order of entry. Interested? Send an email to dudokvanheel@dudokconsulting.nl.
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