A Dynamic New Approach To Organizational Productivity And Financial Performance

"It has been Leadership Strategies assessments alone that have reduced our staff and labor expenses from 29.4% to 25.7% of revenue in 11 months. It’s that simple, and much simpler than I thought it would be."
-Chief Operating Officer, Fortune 200 Leadership Strategies client company.

A very important part of our practice is devoted to providing our clients with systems and tools to dramatically improve the caliber of employees and executives hired, internally promoted, and retained.

Organizational productivity is composed of those who do well, those who do okay and those whose performance is less or much less than okay. Consequently, most companies struggle while attempting to improve the combined output of their human capital while receiving a continually increasing return on their human capital investment.

The majority of selection processes used by most companies are fairly standard, differing mostly in degrees of sophistication at certain steps in the process such as application or resume review, interviewing, reference checks, and the variable competence of interviewer(s). With the assistance of many of our clients we have undertaken exhaustive research and have found that most of the assessments in use today are decades old and based on outdated research and constructs, while suffering from dubious or non-existent validation. Until now, there has not been a product or service of note that can significantly impact the beneficial selection of employees by predicting the probability of their success with a very high degree of certainty. Now there is.

While we have utilized and are able to provide you with nearly any assessment system that you desire, we will recommend Profiles International assessments in nearly all cases. Our clients have found without exception that the caliber and contribution of individuals hired and promoted has improved dramatically while utilizing these assessments as part of their applicant and internal candidate selection and development processes. Because of many customization options, most of the Profiles International assessment line is equally useful for all position types from entry level to senior executive, within all industries and in multiple languages. Each product is supported by a full and recent validation study, and all products are administered and processed via the Internet. These assessments eliminate the guesswork related to hiring, promotion and succession planning, and pricing for each of these products varies based upon planned usage volume. Using these assessments provides you and your organization with an absolute assurance of improved human productivity, reduced turnover and improved financial performance. To view a seven-minute introductory video about these assessments and their potential benefit to your organization, Click here

Profiles On The Web™

Our Profiles On The Web™ assessment center provides you and your organization with 24-hour, 7-day per week candidate assessment and reporting capabilities on a worldwide basis in seven languages. Click on the logo to the left to go directly to our Profiles On The Web™ assessment center. To view detailed information about our security and up-time assurance policy, click the link near the bottom of this page.

The Profile XT™

The ProfileXT™ is a 50-minute multi-purpose, normative (compares the employee or candidate's attributes to the general population, making comparative judgment possible) full psychometric assessment that can be used for selection, training, promotion, managing, and succession planning at all employment levels up to the most senior executive positions and board levels.

It is a powerful and dynamic management tool that employs 21st Century technology while going far beyond simple Ipsative (does not compare the employee or candidate's attributes to the general human population, making comparative judgment impossible) personality assessments.

It is the latest; most advanced, most thorough and most valid assessment of its type available, and was introduced in January 2003. It is administered on the Internet and reports are available immediately after assessment completion.

The ProfileXT™ validly compares an individual's thinking style, behavioral characteristics and occupational interests against a position specific job pattern. This assessment provides a job match percentage that is a valid indicator of how the individual will perform in that position. Predictive and test-retest reliability of the ProfileXT™ is exceedingly high.

The ProfileXT™ produces the following five reports for use in hiring, development and organizational planning:

• Placement Report
• Individual Report
• Coaching Report
• Multi-Candidate Report (succession planning)
• Multi-Job Report (succession planning)

The ProfileXT™ provides such outstanding results that we have not one client who has begun using it while then deciding not to use it. It improves human productivity and efficiency remarkably. Candidates may take the ProfileXT™ anywhere in the world where they have access to the Internet,. For a sample ProfileXT™ assessment report, Click here

Profiles Sales Indicator™

Selling in today's marketplace is much more challenging than it has ever been in the past. Salespeople are expected to be competitive, while maintaining allegiance to the organizational team. They are expected to be self-reliant while having a persistent level of effort that causes them not to take "no" for an answer. They are expected to be subject matter experts regarding their products and services as well those of their competitors. And, they are expected to have a drive to sell, while maintaining the correct balance within customer and prospect relationships.

The Profiles Sales Indicator™ is a tool for selecting, managing, and improving the performance of salespeople and sales managers. It measures five key qualities of successful salespeople and predicts performance in seven critical sales behaviors. Using the Profiles Sales Indicator™to build and develop a sales organization can result in record-breaking productivity, retention of top performers, and exceptional revenue AND profitability growth.

Candidates may take the Profiles Sales Indicator™anywhere in the world where they have access to the Internet. For a sample Profiles Sales Indicator™assessment report,
Click here.

Profiles The Customer Service Perspective™

The Customer Service Perspective™ is a customizable tool that provides an easy comparison of an individual’s perspective with your company’s perspective on customer service. It is used for placement, self-improvement, and coaching.

The Customer Service Perspective™ measures all of the following:

• Behavioral Characteristics
  o Trust
  o Tact
  o Empathy
  o Conscientiousness
  o Conformity
  o Focus
  o Courtesy
  o Flexibility
  
• Proficiencies
  o Vocabulary
  o Numerical
  
• Job Match
• Company Service Perspective

Candidates may take The Customer Service Perspective™24/7, anywhere in the world they have access to the Internet or a paper/pencil booklet method can also be used, if desired. For a sample The Customer Service Perspective™assessment report, Click here

Profiles Performance Indicator™

The Profiles Performance Indicator™ measures key behavioral factors and their impact on the critically important aspects of success in business, providing information that makes every employee or executive more productive.

The report helps you understand how an individual is effectively understood, motivated, and managed and ensures greater human productivity and improved workplace relationships. The Profiles Performance Indicator™ measures the following:

• Behavioral tendencies in the following critical, job-related competencies and provides suggestions for improving performance in the following areas:
  o Productivity
  o Quality of Work
  o Initiative
  o Teamwork
  o Problem Solving
  
• Response to job related stress, frustration and conflict
• How to motivate the employee.
• Whether the employee is internally motivated or will need to be externally motivated.

Most personality assessments such as The Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorTM, The Kolbe IndexTM, The Firo-BTM, The Insight InventoryTM, and DiSCTM provide only personality labels and color codes as feedback. Alternatively, the Profiles Performance Indicator™ provides actionable feedback in business terms without simplistic labeling in soft terms, and is administered via the Internet.

For full details on this assessment and to view any of its sample reports click on the logo

Profiles Team Analysis™

The Profiles Team Analysis™ eliminates the challenge of improving team performance. Using the results from the Profiles Performance Indicator™, this system reports the attributes of each team member, shows the team's strengths, and alerts the team leader to individual and team weaknesses or conflicts. It provides the team leader with easily actionable steps to improve workgroup effectiveness and performance.

The Profiles Team Analysis™ measures the following:

• Team balance
• Strengths and weaknesses of the overall team
• Describes each team member’s characteristics compared to the team leader’s characteristics in the following 12 team factors:
  
  o Control
  o Social
  o Patience
  o Precision
  o Ambition
  o Positive Expectancy
  o Composure
  o Analytical
  o Results Orientation
  o Emotions
  o Team Player
  o Quality Orientation
  
• Describes methods a leader can use to maximize the performance of each member as part of the team and what role the leader must play on the team.

Step One Survey II™

The Step One Survey II™ is a scientifically designed and heavily validated assessment tool that evaluates job applicants for integrity, tendency toward substance abuse, reliability, and work ethic. The Step One Survey II™ report results are immediately available to hiring decision makers. The report contains the following information for consideration while making an employment decision:

• Quick Check - Providing the candidate's employment status, availability to start, mist recent salary, and supervisory experience
• Employment Profile - Concise employment history plus supporting interview questions.
• Integrity - A summary of admissions regarding theft of money, property, data and time.
• Substance Abuse - Admissions regarding personal use and/or distribution of illegal and/or regulated substances.
• Criminal Convictions - Admissions regarding criminal convictions.
• Candidate’s Attitudes – Regarding Integrity, Substance Abuse, Reliability, and Work Ethic.
• Graph – A visual summary of the candidate’s results.
• Structured Interview Questions – Structured interview questions related to certain issues that may be of concern to you regarding the information provided. Asking these questions provides additional information for making appropriate hiring decisions.

Candidates may take the Step One Survey II™ anywhere in the world where they have access to the Internet. For a sample assessment report, Click here.

Profiles Checkpoint™360°

The Checkpoint™ 360° is a powerful professional development tool, designed to positively impact an individual's position performance, and an organization's success.

Designed for executives, managers, supervisors, and others in leadership positions it can facilitate peak performance that generates improved productivity in the workplace. The Checkpoint™ 360°quantifies a participant's competencies, verifies the results from a variety of perspectives, and identifies ways to enhance skills. It is the most advanced and validated instrument of its type and is administered via the Internet.

Many organizations suffer from the negative aftereffects resulting from poorly designed and excessively complex 360° instruments that are actually designed by their publishers to create downstream challenges for which your organization must seek assistance from the publisher, at great expense or inefficiency cost to your organization. One widely distributed and poorly designed 360° instrument, for instance, utilizes a very dubious competency construct whereby one of their competencies…similar to many others…is “dealing with ambiguity”. Our position, alternatively, is clear; it is much more important to organizational success to eliminate ambiguity rather than merely deal with it.

The Checkpoint™360° universal management and leadership competencies and 18 skill sets in simple terms and in a manner that creates individual and organizational performance improvement immediately. For a sample Checkpoint™360° assessment report, Click here.

An exceptionally valuable option within this system is the Checkpoint™360° Organizational Management Analysis. This report combines all feedback for an entire group of directly reporting staff members in a concise and easy-to-interpret manner, creating not only a clear indication of the organization’s primary human capital opportunities but also an instructional call-to-action for the team leader or supervising executive. For a sample Checkpoint™360° Organizational Management Analysis report, Click here.

The Organizational Management AnalysisT

The Organizational Management Analysis™ (OMA) is an essential element of organizational development. An OMA report presents a compilation of the information obtained from the individual Checkpoint results of a group of managers. Delivered via the Internet, the report provides a factual summary of the perceptions of a management group with input from the managers' bosses, peers, and direct reports. The OMA provides organizations with specific information regarding where they stand currently and what is necessary to move the organization forward.For a sample Organizational Management Analysis report, Click here.

The Checkpoint SkillBuilder™

The Checkpoint SkillBuilder SeriesT consists of 18 self-paced and customized self-improvement programs designed to help managers and executives improve their performance and results. The SkillBuilder Series is a companion to the Checkpoint 360° Competency Feedback System, offering managers and executives the opportunity to develop the competencies that are most important to their professional growth and organizational success. Available exclusively on the Internet, for full details on this development system click on the logo to the left and for a sample development action plan created by SkillBuilder, Click here.

Verifications Background Checks

Verifications is a full information service that verifies job applicants' application/resume data, driving records, examines credit, academic credentials, criminal and civil history to dramatically reduce the risk of bad hiring decisions and negligent hiring liability. This service, with very rapid turnaround, eliminates headaches related to receiving accurate, truthful and thorough information about job applicants from any U.S. county, state, or federal jurisdiction. For a sample Verifications report, Click here.

Answers To Some Of Your Immediate Questions:

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