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Assessments can offer greater insight into personalities and behaviors.
Gallup-Clifton Strengths
Since 1999, Clifton Strengths (Formally StrengthsFinder®) millions of people have discovered their strengths and have common questions about the research. This widely known assessment is a powerful resource for personal and career development, leadership growth, enhancing employee engagement and so much more.
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Trusting your results is the first step in getting the most out of the CliftonStrengths assessment. Here are some common questions individuals have before and after they take the assessment:
Is CliftonStrengths reliable?
Yes. Gallup has abundant evidence that CliftonStrengths is reliable, with excellent test-retest results (results and differences between an individual’s initial test, and then retest). These results are particularly important because it indicates the long-term stability that respondents depend on.
Can my CliftonStrengths results change over time?
Respondents should not be concerned about their results becoming invalid over time and should expect a high degree of stability over several years. The order of themes (and strengths of the themes) is quite stable among those who tested more than once over a decade after their first assessment.
Should I retake the CliftonStrengths assessment?
Generally, no, as most individuals will not see meaningful changes in their results. The times we may advise retaking the assessment are if the individual was distracted while taking it, took it in a non-native language, or took it early on in their life and more than 10 years have passed (as they may interpret the questions differently).
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Personal and Professional Development
Developing a Strengths Based Culture
Improving Employee Engagement
Cultivating more collaborative teams
Enhancing Strengths Focused Management
Career Development
The Caliper Profile®
Caliper has been an industry standard in employment assessments for over 50 years.
The Caliper Profile is an employee- and applicant-assessment instrument that accurately measures an individual’s job-performance potential. It is a proven resource that helps you find out which person is the best fit for a given job based on their intrinsic motivations relative to the role’s responsibilities.
The Profile can be used to support hiring, employee development, team improvement, leadership development, talent alignment, and succession planning. With the right people in the right roles, you will increase productivity, employee engagement, and profitability. Improve performance with the right talent. Develop talent for organizational growth and talent retention.
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Aligning Talent with Strategy
Hiring the “Right” Talent
Leadership Development
Talent Development
Improving Performance
Organizational Effectiveness
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Strong Interest Inventory® Assessment
The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment is one of the world’s most widely respected and frequently used career planning tools. It has helped both academic and business organizations develop the brightest talent and has guided thousands of individuals—from high school and college students to mid career workers seeking a change—in their search for a rich and fulfilling career.
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Why It’s Popular
The Strong Interest Inventory assessment is a trusted tool because it is:
Empirically based
Underpinned by rigorous science and research
Regularly updated to reflect changes in today’s world of work
Backed by excellent support and guidance through CPP’s global distributor network
How It Helps
The Strong Interest Inventory assessment is ideal for a wide range of applications, including the following:
Choosing a college major—helps students uncover their career interests and identify which areas of study are appropriate or required for a particular field
Career exploration—opens up the world of work to first-time career seekers and those considering career transition by identifying their interests and demonstrating how they relate to various occupations and careers
Career development—helps heighten individuals’ self-awareness and provide deeper understanding of individual strengths and blind spots, including work style and risk-taking orientation
Employee engagement—helps employees align their interests with areas of responsibility in their job that reflect those interests
Reintegration—helps individuals navigate the reintroduction process after a period of disconnection
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DISC Profile Assessment
(One of the most widely known and used assessments)
I partner with Assessments 24×7 to offer the DISC online assessment as a resource for all types of individuals and organizations. DISC teaches users powerful behavioral profiling skills, which can directly improve performance and increase productivity in a variety of settings and professional frameworks. Learn to positively persuade other people and drive sales, build “A” teams for special projects, improve hiring & selection, empower management and much more.
Motivators Assessment
What truly motivates you? Are these motivators aligned with what you value and do everyday? The Motivators assessment identifies seven potential “drivers” of motivation that exist in everyone, to varying levels. By taking detailed measurements of these seven key impulses, the Motivators assessment is able to offer the practical applications and insights necessary to maximize performance and project outcomes.
I partner with Assessments 24×7 to offer the Motivators Assessment. The assessment measures variances among seven key dimensions (i.e. drivers) of personal motivation:
Aesthetic – Drive for balance, harmony and form.
Economic – Drive for economic or practical returns.
Individualistic – Drive to stand out as independent and unique.
Political – Drive to be in control or have influence.
Altruistic – Drive for humanitarian efforts; help others altruistically.
Regulatory – Drive to establish order, routine and structure.
Theoretical – Drive for knowledge, learning and understanding.
The DISC Profile can also be combined with the Motivators Assessment.
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Motivators offer insight into self-awareness. Having self-awareness means these individuals are better at recognizing opportunities that correlate with their inherent motivations, thereby increasing their likelihood for success.
Like-wise, business leaders are better equipped to make informed personnel decisions when they understand what galvanizes each new job applicant or team member. Steadfastness, attention to detail and accuracy are not issues for someone whose motivations align well with the values necessitated by a particular job.
Career Management, Career Development, Leadership Development are ideal for the Motivators Assessment.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i™ and EQ 360™ )
The EQ-i™ is ideal for business environments where developing effective communication between individuals, teams, and the entire organization is crucial to success. The EQ-360™ identifies key employee strengths and impediments to high performance that could be improved. The assessment process can also be used as a follow-up to formal coaching and to measure progress. Talent selection should not be made using EQ-i ™ alone, but can provide an additional resource in the process. The EQ-360™ is often used with high potentials that are in the leadership pipeline.
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Leadership development
Individual development
Organizational development
High potential identification
Team effectiveness
Succession planning initiatives
Executive and general coaching
Performance management
Student development (higher education)
Learning Styles Assessment
The Learning Styles assessment does just as its name implies; it identifies each individual’s best means for learning and retaining new information. Some people like to process information through text, while others need visual support and images. Some learners best assimilate information alone, while others prefer to work in groups. There are those who can grasp information intuitively, while others prefer to follow a strong sequential path. In essence, understanding learning styles offers the key to maximizing an organization’s training investments, enlightening its management teams and even assembling top performing teams.
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The Learning Styles assessment is designed to measure the learning style of an individual within most situations. These situations encompass four categories:
Attending
Translating
Relating
Understanding
ABLE – Assessment of Basic Leader Effectiveness®
The ABLE (Assessment of Basic Leader Effectiveness) is a customized 360° assessment that accurately measures how well a leader uses nine leadership skills that are essential for leaders at all levels.
The ABLE measures skills that can be learned and improved, rather than personality traits or innate talents. The leader, the leader’s boss, direct reports and/or peers can complete the ABLE online in as few as10 minutes. Results are presented in clear, easy-to-read graphs with customized paragraphs that explain the meaning of the score and a Leader Effectiveness Action Plan (Action Plan) for future development.
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Performance measurement
Individual/leadership development
Executive and general coaching
Organizational development
Designing training/coaching initiatives
Measuring training and coaching effectiveness
FIRO® Element B™ Assessment
FIRO® Element B™ is an excellent tool for group dynamics. People need to work together, and leaders need to manage the interpersonal issues that arise as a result. Element B™ reveals how a person prefers to interact with others, making it an ideal assessment for improving work relationships and team performance. Element B™ measures interpersonal behavior in three areas: Inclusion, Control and Openness. Element B™ provides the same information as the FIRO® plus twelve additional measures. Highly validated instrument to identify behavioral patterns, help people better understand their own and others’ behavior and create action plans.
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Group Dynamics
Individual, Leader and Team Development
Team Building
Executive Coaching
Performance Management
Compatible Team Design
ARSENAL Assessment™
Stress is a major factor in life, impacting people personally and professionally. Workplace performance and engagement can be impacting negatively when stress is not managed. Stress causes heart disease, high blood pressure, weight problems, poor performance, depression and more. Some stress is good, however, a person needs to be able to bounce back after periods of high stress.
ARSENAL can help manage stress, develop stress resilience and allow for better decision-making. It is based on the ARSENAL Model of seven best practices that are key to resisting the negative effects of stress. ARSENAL measures the overall level of stress as well as how well a person is currently doing in each of the seven areas.
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Benefits of the ARSENAL Assessment
Reduce stress
Improve overall health
Control emotions and stay calmer
Improve performance
Increase ability to tolerate stress
Make better decisions
Build new brain cells and Increase brain functioning
Reduce healthcare costs
Applications
Health and safety
Employee wellness programs
Leadership development
Individual development
Organizational development
Stress reduction initiatives
Performance management
Sales AP
The Sales AP measures eight scales that have been shown to relate to success in sales roles based on past research. Each participant in the Sales AP is compared to a group of 1,530 individuals who have taken the assessment previously. This sample is evenly distributed by gender and across five age-ranges and was matched to the 2016 U.S. Census by race/ethnicity and geographic region. The participants in the comparison group had a variety of employment statuses and levels of education.
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Achievement Motivation Using one’s inner drive to apply the effort needed to attain strategic goals
Assertiveness The open and direct expression of thoughts and beliefs
Competitiveness The desire to perform better than others and surpass personal standards of performance
Composure Staying calm under pressure and in difficult interactions
Sociability Engaging with others and developing relationships effortlessly
Persuasion Influencing others to change their thoughts or behaviors
Self-Confidence An individual’s level of belief in their abilities and judgments
Selling-Related Knowledge The desire to understand different sales techniques and learn about their respective industry
Is the Sales AP valid and reliable?
Research conducted by MHS in the development of the Sales AP provide evidence that the assessment results are both valid and reliable. Validity: The Sales AP has multiple sources of evidence that support its validity. The assessment has a factor structure that seems the most empirically and theoretically consistent compared to other plausible models. Additionally, the validity studies for the assessment demonstrated that sales professionals score higher than the general population. Those who have higher sales competencies as measured by the Sales AP have higher self-reported levels of job performance and average calls made in a day, supporting that the assessment relates to work outcomes. Furthermore, the scales of the assessment seem theoretically consistent, as they correspond closely to other measures that reflect similar content. • Reliability: The reliability of the Sales AP was examined using internal consistency. The coefficient alpha values of the Sales AP had a median of .87, with a range of .85 to .92. These high values imply that the questions assessing each competency are connected and are measuring the same idea.
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Application:
New Sales Talent Selection
Sales Talent Development
Why Certification Matters
Not all assessments require certification. However, I have selected assessments that offer a wide range of benefits for my clients. I am authorized and certified to administer the following assessments.