In a time when you are trying to “do more with less,” how can you ensure that your people are working at their optimal level? Even if all else is finely tuned – organizational structure, competitive advantage, targeted marketing -- people are sometimes the greatest enigma in organizations.
And it’s not just people working individually. Are your teams hitting on all cylinders?
People don’t come with user manuals or schematic diagrams. Team dynamics are often inscrutable. So what is a manager to do? One solution is a Talent Assessment Profile (TAP), a proven, scientific and reliable method to better understand people and how they interact in a team environment.
Simply stated, every person has a basic personality style comprised of numerous traits that impact their feelings, motivations and behaviors -- and thus performance on the job. So understanding a personality style can help you understand the person and manage their work behaviors. A profile can help determine if there are roadblocks – or at least speed bumps – that can inhibit a team of employees from achieving its goals.
Read more about some practical applications of a TAP and our offer of a Free Talent Assessment Profile.
Here are some other practical applications for TAP:
- Improving how a manager and employee communicate and work together.
- Identifying the traits that may be holding back an underperforming employee from succeeding
- Gaining insight into your own leadership management style to improve how you function as an executive
- Understanding why teams don’t work well and isolating team members who are creating the problem
- Selecting the recruit who will best thrive and succeed in your organization
We’ve witnessed several examples of how TAP benefited our clients:
- While coaching a VP of a NYSE Company, TAP helped us unlock and understand the underlying issues regarding a negative behavioral trait. The result was a successful intervention and assignment of greater responsibility to the executive we coached.
- A prominent financial services company profiled its dealmakers, leading to creation of a target profile for hiring. The result was reduced turnover and improved performance among new hires.
- The president of a leading non-profit learned how to improve communications with her direct reports by profiling them. Using their profiles, she also devised individual developments plans that dramatically improved performance through a period of rapid growth.
- After a small manufacturing company profiled its entire work force of about 25 people, five were identified as high potential candidates who were then trained as complex machine programmers, assuring the company access to highly trained staff for the next 10 years.
- A newly hired CEO of a financial services organization was struggling to work productively with an existing staff. Our personality profiles uncovered cultural and operational differences. A process was then implemented that allowed for a far greater level of mutual respect and cooperation.
Human Capital Advisors’ Talent Assessment Profile is a proprietary tool that’s more accurate in assessing behavior than similar systems because it measures intelligence, a dimension often overlooked by similar tools.
TAP includes a one-on-one discussion with our industrial psychologist who will confer with you in detail about how a person or a team functions in your organization. With that information, Human Capital Advisors can help devise a program that will improve the individual’s performance and increase the likelihood of a team working more efficiently and successfully. TAP can also help you make the best hiring decision or prepare a plan of action that could lead to improved performance.
A Talent Assessment Profile, properly employed, can often lead to improved performance for your organization and better hires. So before you give up on an underachieving person or team, consider an HCA TAP.
For more information about this valuable tool, call 703.790.5021.
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