Many of us feel pressure in our workplace roles because of the downsizing of resources and upsizing of expectations in today’s marketplace. Resourceful and effective leaders strive to utilize all available assets, especially the most cost-effective ones. A very accessible, yet often overlooked asset is untapped talent among the staff within organizations!
Most of us have experienced a season in our career when our best talents were not utilized. We felt the disappointment, disillusionment, and apathy that surfaces when we are stuck punching a time clock rather than contributing in meaningful and fulfilling ways. Obviously, most leaders try to bring out the best in each team member. However, people are multi-faceted and complex. Understanding what makes people tick can be difficult to discern without tools and it takes some additional effort and time.
The secret to engaging people is finding that perfect fit between what attributes a job requires and a person’s natural strengths. To help with this, many organizations are now turning to objective and validated assessment tools to help ascertain people’s strengths. The tool provides additional insight about candidates BEFORE a job offer, project assignment, or promotion is extended. Not only do assessments provide rich and often concealed information about candidates, they also unveil information that allows you to quickly know and understand the person you are assimilating into the team.
Well designed assessments predict performance success by evaluating three important attributes:
1. Personality style: “HOW” employees will operate within your organization.
2. Motivational drivers: “WHY” employees engage and contribute.
3. Skills/Talents: “WHAT” natural soft skills and talents employees possess
Simply understanding the unique “how”, “why”, and “what” of each employee helps leaders to leverage existing and future assets. It also enables leaders to optimize the whole team’s talents.
Utilization of structured interviews, along with personality and cognitive assessments increased performance predictability by 35 times.
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2008)
Try a Complimentary Assessment. If you are not utilizing an assessment tool, we invite you to try Talent Journey’s complimentary assessment. We use the most validated assessments in the world, and are a global leader in assessment-based solutions for selection, on-boarding, retention, team building, leadership, sales, customer service and more. Try it without obligation or risk and experience the rich benefits. Please contact our office, (760) 471-2703.
