Tools to Make Managers More Effective

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The following reports are powerful tools for the onboarding process and especially for the ongoing management of employees who have taken the assessment.   By understanding the motivations, natural tendencies, values, work preferences, styles and other attributes of your key people, you'll be much better able to engage them and to make the best use of their talents. 

Engagement and Retention Analysis

These reports focus on eight areas related to engagement and retention. They identify employee expectations as well as behaviors that relate to the shared responsibility of achieving those expectations. This report can be generated for individuals or groups. 
 

How to Manage, Develop and Retain 

The How to Manage, Develop and Retain Report identifies the key leverage points that help you to manage, develop or retain a particular employee. This report helps you to understand the person’s strengths and well as how to use them more effectively. It also helps you to understand a person’s weaknesses and take measures to prevent them from creating problems in the organization. This report is organized into three categories: Essential factors, Important factors, and Other Possible Factors. 
 

Traits and Definitions

The Traits and Definitions report lists the person’s scores on each trait and gives definition of each trait. This enables you to see a hierarchy of the candidate’s tendencies and provides a clear definition of each trait. The traits are listed in categories including basic traits, HATS preferences, work environment preferences, interests, behavioral competencies and traits to avoid. Each category of traits lists the related traits from the strongest trait of that person to the weakest trait. Managers can find helpful information to coach, engage, and motivate employees, in addition to information found in the Engagement & Retention Analysis report.
 

Benefits to Managing a Business 

 

The Leader/Owner

  • Provides the "intel" and understanding so that the leader can be most effective in dealing with themselves and others in planning, organizing, leading and managing the overall organization
 

The Organization

  • Find those who fit their job (enjoy it, master it…), they are as much as 4X's as productive as those who don't
  • Find those who fit your culture and values (or the one you want to move toward)
  • Eliminate those with ethical issues
  • Develop a team with a balanced set of talents so that weaknesses are compensated for by strengths
  • Avoid the conflicts that come from misunderstanding styles, motivations and preferences
  • Maximize productivity by using all your people's potential optimally
  • By understanding motivations and preferences, you can much more effectively engage all your employees, improving productivity , "pro-activeness" and enthusiasm
 

Outcomes

  1. Reduce costs through improve management, motivation and alignment
  2. Improve effectiveness(revenue growth) through improved understanding and alignment with goals