Behavioral assessments are a great tool to use in your hiring practices because they add insights about candidates and enable you to interview around specific strengths and weaknesses, not simply broad generalities. The other fantastic use of behavioral assessments is with your current workforce: leadership, managers, project management teams, etc...
Here are a few questions to ask yourself when considering bringing in assessments.
- Would gaining a focused behavioral overview of strengths and areas of concern (job specific) for your employees or yourself be helpful?
- Would assessing your current workforce to identify common strengths or areas of concern specific to successful performance be an asset to your managers?
- Would the ability to target your training dollars where the identified need is be an asset?
- Would creating focused on-boarding or coaching programs designed around behaviors, accountability and performance goals provide an advantage?
Benefits of having a quality behavioral assessment in your toolbox.
To the Individual
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Self-awareness---identify strengths and weaknesses; provide a starting point for forward career development.
- The ability to realize how behaviors affect personal and professional relationships, in both positive and negative ways.
- Reduce stress by understanding and correcting self-sabotage.
- Provide immediate awareness, and thus corrective action in any deficient area.
- Acknowledge and build on natural strengths.
To the Manager
- The knowledge gained through assessment feedback will form the basis of improved communication and trust.
- Help in identifying which workers are most likely to conform to the organization’s mission/vision statements.
- Reduce conflict with those who have oppositional behaviors, and will provide an understanding and starting point for coaching conversations.
- Enhance clarity of communication.
- Realize the real reason people act the way they do – not the apparent one.
- Understand which workers are self-sufficient and which are not.
To the Organization
- Enhance each leader’s ability to manage themselves, and their staff.
- Provide employees’ feedback to aide in their career success.
- Provide an objective measure, not a subjective opinion or “feeling” based on possible personality differences.
- Communication is profoundly enhanced; manager and worker can speak the same “language.”
- Initiates a uniform promotion/development/discipline system.
- Enhanced team unity through an increased level of openness and honesty.
- Establishes an excellent base for performance reviews and coaching programs.
If you need help understanding or implementing a behavioral assessment program within your organization do not hesitate to contact Windridge.... And if there are other areas where assessments play an important role in your organization’s development programs... Please share!
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