What is the key to loyal customers? What will make you differentiate your brand? Often times the brand difference is your people! Learn about how competency based talent management can play a role in helping you achieve this.
Competency-based Talent Management: Creating a Unique Talent Brand
Our corporate clients like the fact that we provide integrated but modular solutions. They appreciate the completeness of the system and the flexibility of being able to focus on their immediate needs.
Corporate HR and Business Leaders Use our Solutions:
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To learn more about our unique certification process, please see our Certification page.
If you are interested in more information on how to hire and develop excellent consultative sales professionals, please go to our product section and click on “SalesMax”.
For cost effective tools to help you select the best entry-level candidates, we recommend our Select Associate Screening System— a family of related tests designed to measure important, work-related, personality characteristics in applicants for entry-level jobs.
Contact us to learn more about how to improve your total selection process.
Built specifically for business, Assess™ ensures you hire the best people, get the best out of them and get them ready for future roles. Assess™ has the highest level of workplace validation and applies to all major points in an employee’s lifecycle;
The first step is to create a competency (success) model.
Once the competency model is defined, you can measure both individuals and teams against your model to improve both individual and team performance. A number of individual and group reports are available in Assess™. Brief descriptions of reports follow. To see a full list of Assess™ Reports available by category, see ASSESS-Reports-by-Category.pdf.
ASSESS™ Selection Reports identify the personality traits of a candidate that are likely to help/hinder the individual’s ability to be successful in a given role. The report helps to focus a behavioural interview by providing questions specifically linked to competencies plus unique questions based on the candidate’s results.
The report also includes management suggestions or coaching tips, which can be used if the candidate is hired.
Hire based on a complete picture of competencies defined for success.
The result – increase the probability of hiring candidates that will succeed - lower hiring costs, higher retention and better performance.
ASSESS™ Development Reports provide an in-depth evaluation of a candidate’s assets and liabilities in relation to the needed competencies for a given role. The report provides development suggestions, books to read and courses to take in order to facilitate the coaching process and improve performance.
ASSESS™ 360 Reports can provide additional perspective and enhance the development process. This report includes a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of how the individual and other team members (boss, direct reports, peers, etc…) view the individual’s behaviour and performance. The printed report will provide developmental suggestions for some of the candidate’s lowest rated competencies. Additional development suggestions for each of the competencies will be available on-line.
ASSESS™ Focus 360 is an abbreviated 360 module, which measures observed changes for a group of targeted behaviours selected by an employee and their leader. It is designed to further enhance coaching and development.
ASSESS™ Group Summary Reports provide aggregate data for group(s) of participant's. Summary reports include information such as: most frequent developmental suggestions; overall "fit" of the group with their competency model, and average score of the group on ASSESS™ personality dimensions. This information may be used to target training and improve team performance.
The Team Effectiveness (Comparison) Plots display the results of selected individuals (pairs or groups) on combinations of ASSESS™ characteristics. The impact of each individual's "style" on team effectiveness can be explored through our 17 standard comparisons or customized plots can be created. Comparison Plots can aid in helping pairs or teams to recognize similarities and differences, understand potential strengths and potential weakness, and develop a team plan to increase group effectiveness.
ASSESS™ Group 360 Reports show aggregate results for all individuals for whom a 360 was generated and that were rated against the same model. It is also designed to help improve team performance and complements both the ASSESS™ group Summary Reports and Team Effectiveness plots.
We would be pleased to discuss how you can improve any of these processes by using Assess. Please contact us.
Assess Competency Modeling or Strategic Success Modeling (SSM) is a process by which an organization can easily develop a targeted competency model for a position or group of positions, or can update an existing competency model.
Use our unique process to translate business strategy in HR practices – using a common language to define the behaviours that are necessary to successfully execute strategy.
With the Optimal Assessment Process and the Assess suite of tools, once a competency model has been created it can be loaded into the Assess on-line system. Candidates – both internal and external can log into the system and complete Assess, a business assessment instrument that measures 24 personality traits in three major categories – Thinking, Working and Relating.
The Assess system provides an objective way to measure individuals against the behaviours critical to organizational success and can be used to improve the following processes:
Take our Competency Modeling Quiz to determine whether or not you can benefit by mapping your competencies to our Assess competency library or contact us.
We know that your schedule is hectic and your time is limited. We do our best to adapt our certification process to your needs and your schedule.
For coaches, executive search firms, and HR/OD consultants we also provide insight into how to effectively use the tools and expand your practice.
We also offer in-house certification allowing you and your team members the opportunity to tailor your learning to what is most relevant for your organization.
What makes our certification process unique is our commitment to service our clients. We provide follow-up coaching and advisory services to make sure that the tools are being used effectively and so that all of our clients achieve the best possible results.
During our workshops you will learn how to enhance the use of ASSESS with your clients or within your organization. We focus on the following:
For more information about certification and pricing please contact us.
Even when goals are clearly defined, leaders provide little feedback and coaching. They do this annually often as a result of a requirement imposed on them (annual review, bonus calculations, etc…) Many leaders are not equipped to provide effective feedback.
The Assess system helps leaders understand the connection between goals and the behaviours that are necessary to accomplish those goals.
Stage 1 of the OAP™ "Defining Success" shows how strategy and outcomes can be linked to behaviours that are necessary for success. Providing leaders and their team members with an ability to define what will be monitored and evaluated as part of the performance management process.
This common language is used as a framework for on-going coaching and performance improvement. Feedback can now be immediate, specific, non personal and it can highlight both positive and negative behaviours.
To learn more about how to incorporate Assess into your performance improvement process please contact us.
SalesMax was designed and validated to help organizations identify and develop top performers in consultative sales roles.
SalesMax is a state-of-the-art, web-based system that produces comprehensive reports to assist in the selection and development of professional sales people.
The SalesMax System provides immediate testing, evaluation and reporting from an internet connection.
Personality traits and sales knowledge that contribute to effectiveness in a sales role, specifically:
Everyone has made hiring mistakes.
Use SalesMax to minimize poor hires and focus on hiring individuals with natural sales ability.
SalesMax Selection Reports provide the following information to help evaluate candidates:
To assist in Development, the SalesMax Development Report provides:
To learn more about how SalesMax can help your organization please contact us.
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Optimal Assessments and Consulting provides our clients with the best assessment tools in the market, along with unique solutions to improve individual and team performance including executive coaching and leadership development, competency (success) modeling, and facilitation expertise.
Optimal Assessments and Consulting Inc. is a Canadian distributor of Assess Systems. We provide our clients with knowledge and training for state-of-the art assessment tools, which provide the following benefits:
To learn more about our unique process please visit our home page which describes our proprietary Optimal Assessment Process™ of employee engagement.
We are committed to ensuring our clients receive comprehensive certification and the best follow up service. We ensure that everyone who gets trained can quickly begin delivering value to their organizations or clients.