How Multiple Assessments Add to Success

While DISC is one of the most common assessments used in the workplace, it does not reveal everything you need to know about a person. In fact, DISC only measures behavior style and communication tendencies, or “how” we act in our natural and adapted environments. It doesn’t tell us “why” we act in a certain way, what skills we have, or how well we are aware of our emotions. For almost every situation in training and development, knowing more than one facet of a person will help you provide better, more effective solutions.

Knowing everything about DISC is great, but why stop there? Knowing more about yourself and those around you will even further allow you to leverage your skills and harness your challenges to increase the success you and others bring to an organization. Just imagine how much it would help to know why someone you work with makes the decisions they do or what skills they have that could help you achieve your goals.

TTI – The Assessment Company

Shouldn’t you have the ability to choose from a variety of assessment options to help achieve your specific goals? TTI strongly believes in the very foundation of assessments - empowering you to better understand, appreciate and leverage your unique strengths to succeed in life both on and off the job. [ Read More ]

TTI Conducts Research with Behavioral Assessments

As a loyal subscriber of People Energizing People, you are invited you to take part in TTI’s research on the DISC style of President Obama based on your perception of his public image. The quick, 10-minute assessment will give you the opportunity to choose adjectives that you feel describe Obama the most and those that you feel describe Obama the least.

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Then, stay tuned for the research results to be released next month after TTI collects and analyzes the data to determine both the natural and adapted behavioral style of the President based on perceived public image. The outcome will be truly interesting! This research study will reveal how diverse or consistent our perceptions are and how well the public identifies observable behavior. It will also identify the public’s consensus of Barak Obama’s perceived behavioral style, a piece of the puzzle that makes us all unique.

Controlling Turnover and Addressing Disengagement with a Complete System

Turnover alone may be costing you millions, but what about the employees you still have? Is their disengagement costing you even more?

Fortunately, turnover and disengagement stem from job fit, and you can reduce costs associated with both by using a complete hiring system. With a process that looks at hiring from the very beginning to the very end, you can consider the job, the talent, professional development and performance management. However, with reduced budgets and overwhelming responses to job ads, many companies are finding themselves skipping a system all together. Unfortunately, a move like that doesn’t come without a hefty cost, as doing nothing to ensure job fit will cost you more than implementing a complete hiring system to start controlling turnover and disengagement costs now.

With a solution for future turnover and disengagement costs, let’s turn our focus to the disengaged employees on your payroll now. Can you determine the underlying issue? It may be decreased morale, lack of direction, little job satisfaction or no motivation. Whatever the case, you need to start by using the same complete system. [Read More]

To meet today’s challenges, companies world-wide are searching for ways to do more with less. While many strategies offer streamlined processes and ways to add value, the biggest opportunities to meet this challenge lie within the talent themselves and are critical to future success:

* Finding the right talent

* Retaining your top performers

* Ensuring your best employees have the opportunity to thrive

Managing talent can be tough, but it doesn’t have to be. The key is to understand the current needs of the organization and what each unique individual brings to the job to help you make tough talent decisions.

While education, experience and intelligence are important, you simply cannot uncover the true picture of human talent without a total person analysis that includes an assessment of behaviors, values and personal skills. Together, these areas present a more in-depth approach to truly understanding an individual’s unique characteristics and how they apply to performance on the job.Total Person Analysis Image

In particular, a behavioral assessment will reveal HOW a people behave through their natural style in dealing with four different areas: problems, people, pace and procedure. With a better understanding and appreciation for people with different behavioral styles, communication can be enhanced, conflict can be reduced and a better job fit can be made. With an assessment of motivators, you can reveal WHY people act, or what drives a person to take action. [ Read More ]

Personal accountability is not only an important skill to possess, but it is also in high demand. In over 95% of the jobs we studied, we found personal accountability to be one of the top seven personal skills that are required for superior performance on the job. Most companies would agree that responsibility for actions is a major component to success on the job and will look for this skill in any employee review or selection situation. Unfortunately, personal accountability can be difficult to gauge and is often times not genuine until you can scratch through the surface.

If personal accountability is so important to success on the job, yet difficult to find, how can we look for this skill in today’s talent? [Read Full Article]

What determines superior performance? What makes a prime candidate? If you were to pick just one skill, what would it be?

TTI’s soft skills assessments have allowed us to look at personal skills in a new light, and the picture of talent in today’s workplace is becoming clearer than ever before. After looking at research in several areas, we firmly believe that personal accountability is at the top on the list of ideal soft skills. [Read Full Article]

It has been said that 360 degree feedback assessments, also known as multi-rater evaluations, are the most widely recognized assessments in the business industry. The purpose of any 360 degree feedback assessment is to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of an individual by considering the input of several individuals who have a relationship with the subject. Yet the most crucial component to 360 feedback success is not in the responses, but in the questions themselves. [Read Full Article]

360 degree feedback assessments are a great resource in a wide variety of applications, from employee coaching to organizational development. Its valuable contribution to any coaching or business consulting situation lies within its ability to reveal the perceptions of others, making it a resource every business should have. [Read Full Article]

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