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"Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders. "


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Assessments Tools


We are trained extensively, and certified where necessary, on several different types of data gathering tools. We only work with the most highly researched, validated, and reliable tools, so we can offer you exactly what you need on an individual, team or organizational level. This is only a partial listing of the tools we are able to utilize; please contact us for more information.



Leadership:  Individual or Team Leadership Development


Hogan Leadership Forecast Series Reports:

The Leadership Forecast Series Reports are composed of four different reports all working together to identify strengths and developmental needs of a manager or executive.


  • Potential Report: The Potential Report outlines an individual's day–to–day leadership style, including behavioral descriptions, leadership competencies, and comprehensive development recommendations.
  • Challenge Report: The Challenge Report predicts career–derailing behaviors that can be the result of high stress or challenging work situations.
  • Values Report: The Values Report explores a person's core values and goals that ultimately dictate a leader's emphasis on working with others and the type of environment a leader will create. The report predicts individual fit with a career, team, and organization.
  • Coaching Report: The Coaching Report is a self–guided, comprehensive development planning tool. It integrates the information from the Potential, Challenge, and Values Reports into a five–step planning process. By completing this process, a person produces a powerful, personal development plan designed to foster professional growth.

Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ–i™):

Emotional Intelligence measures a core set of social and emotional abilities. How well we develop and use these abilities greatly affects how well we live our lives.


  • EQ–i™ Leadership Report: The EQ–i™ Leadership Report expands your understanding of leadership in organizations from the perspective of emotional intelligence and it helps you explore the direct role that EI plays in predicting leadership success.
  • EQ–360™: BarOn EQ–360™ assessments are ideal for use in corporate environments where developing successful human interaction between individuals, teams, and throughout the entire organization is crucial. The EQ–360™ assessment identifies key employee strengths and identifies impediments to high performance that can be improved or further developed. The assessment process can also be used to measure progress where formal coaching is used as a developmental strategy for EI skill enhancement.

DecisionWise:
  • Leadership Intelligence™ 360 Feedback: DecisionWise provides a complete 360 degree feedback outsourced solution that includes customized 360 assessments, confidential, online administration, detailed reporting, and expert coaching. You work with one of the DecisionWise partners along with a dedicated project manager who facilitates the 360 degree feedback process and handles all support.


Myers–Briggs:
  • Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI™): The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ (MBTI™) assessment is the best known and most trusted personality tool available today. From developing more productive work teams to building closer families, the MBTI can improve the quality of life for anyone and any organization.

Majors Personality Type Inventory:


Career Development


Hogan Developmnent Series Reports:

Development series reports provide high-impact development information on the behavioral tendencies likely to affect job performance. Combined, these reports are the fastest, most cost-effective tools available for on-boarding new employees or assisting current employees with their development.


  • Career Builder: Identifies strengths and shortcomings, and includes detailed developmental tips.
  • Career Compass: Outlines the occupational significance of a person's core values and provides effective career planning information.
  • Management Builder: Highlights the most effective techniques for managing an employee.
  • Interpretive Report: Presents scores in a graphical representation, interprets the business relevance of the scores, and describes how the scores interact.

DecisionWise:

Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ–i™):
  • EQ–i™ Business Report: The EQ–i™ Business Report is designed for respondents who work in a business environment. Business–specific content and development strategies for all 15 scales differentiate this report from the EQ–i™ Resource Report.


Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI™):


Talent Management and Selection


Hogan Selection Series Reports:
  • Suitability Report: As a basic report it provides a graphic display of scale performance, cut score performance, and a hiring recommendation. It is most often used for high–volume employee selection or as part of a multiple–hurdle system. It can be easily customized to include hiring recommendations for multiple positions. The Suitability Report format is available for all of our primary inventories, and hiring recommendations can take into account the results of more than one inventory.
  • BASIS Report: This is a comprehensive report that provides a rich description of a candidate's fit to the job and organization, a hiring recommendation, full behavioral interview guide, and a hiring decision process — all the information needed to evaluate a candidate and arrive at a quality hiring decision. This report establishes a new industry standard. It can be produced from one or all of our primary inventories and can be customized to meet specific hiring needs.
  • Individual Performance Assessment Report: Because of their complexity, certain positions require hands-on assessment interpretation that can only be achieved by an expert. The IPAR was developed to facilitate expert evaluation of assessment results. IPARs typically use all of our primary inventories and may incorporate results from supplemental assessment tools.
  • Candidate Potential Report: A major concern of HR managers today is the risks and costs of bad hires. The Candidate Potential Report (CPR) will help you select the right candidates for jobs throughout your organization, ultimately increasing productivity, decreasing turnover and minimizing the risks and costs of bad hires. The report provides an immediate recommendation based on the assessment results that will identify each candidate as high, moderate or low fit for the job opening. Additionally, the report identifies the candidate’s strengths, areas of concern and interview style.
  • Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory: An inventory of decision–making style in a business environment. The Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory evaluates a person's ability to solve problems and make business–related decisions using textual, graphic, and quantitative data.

DecisionWise:
  • Leadership Intelligence™ Performance Profile: DecisionWise provides a complete picture of each candidate's leadership ability for succession planning. We call this process a Performance Profile. The Performance Profile consists of a variety of assessments and an in–depth personal behavioral interview summarized into an easy to read report that provides a clear overview of the candidate.


Organization Development


Team Development


PeopleMap™:
  • PeopleMap™: The Peoplemap™ System is designed to develop your "people" skills. These skills apply to all areas of your life — work, home and with friends. This fun, simple and easy to use program gives you a "map" that creates effective relationships, helps you solve conflict and work with others to reach your goals. The Peoplemap™ System is comprised of a set of inter–related programs that build upon the Peoplemap™ basic Training Program: Understanding Yourself and Others. No need to use a whole new set of concepts and language!

Majors Personality Type Inventory:
Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ–i™):
  • EQ–i™ Group Summary Report: The Group report is a 25 to 30–page report that provides an anonymous summary of BarOn EQ–i™ scores for a group of respondents. In addition to Total EQ and subscale scores, frequency scores for each item are presented.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI™):


Employee Engagement


DecisionWise:
  • Leadership Intelligence® Employee Engagement Survey: Employee engagement is an ongoing process that transforms a company by making it a place employees enjoy and make great. Our process, including survey and action planning afterward, has been proven time and time again to be effective in improving your company's performance.


Organizational Culture


DecisionWise:

Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ–i™):
  • Benchmark of Organizational Emotional Intelligence (BOEI): The BOEI is a powerful organizational survey designed to assess the Emotional Intelligence of an organization as a whole as well as across departments, teams, and divisions. Organizational Emotional Intelligence refers to emotional abilities at the organizational or cultural level, and is more than the sum of the individual emotional intelligence levels of those within the organization.


All information gathered from the respective assessment’s website:





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