Why Assessments?

 
 

Assessments provide critical insight into all aspects of business.

Interestingly assessments may be the most underutilized tool leading to poor performance and even failure of viable businesses.

As a leader how do you measure success?

Do you count the money at the end of the day, end of the month, end of the year?

To what do you attribute the cash flow, success, failure?

Assessments are critical in all aspects of business!

Assessments should be utilized for employee selection to ensure new employees are a good fit with the culture, the key performance indicators, and acumen.

Assessments should also be utilized to measure the effectiveness of your business services, products, and relationships.

Further, assessments can be an early warning device for the health and welfare of your business.

Employee engagement and employee satisfaction assessments let you know if your employees share the company vision and advance the company objectives or if they are working against those objectives.

360 Degree Assessments

These assessments are used to evaluate the objective from different perspectives.

In personnel matters they measure from the subordinate level, the peer level, and the supervisor level providing an excellent tool to evaluate performance, potential, effectiveness or other measurable objectives.

Organizational assessments may include different stakeholders, customers, employees, vendors and others who interact with the organization.

It is critical to understand what is effective to ensure high functioning teams as well as optimized performance.

  1. Selection and Promotion

  2. Performance Review

  3. Organizational Effectiveness

  4. Employee / Customer Satisfaction

  5. Customizable for specific organizational needs

 

Individual Assessments

Individual assessments provide necessary insight into prospective employees as well as existing employees.

These assessments can be used to better predict team fit, personal preferences, strengths, and challenges.

Understanding employees allow leaders to provide employees the greatest opportunity for satisfaction and success.

The Beamish Group utilizes a battery of assessments to meet our client’s needs including the Strong Interest Inventory, CPI 260, and FIROB.

  1. Position Benchmarking & Employee Section

  2. Behaviors

  3. Motivators

  4. Emotional Intelligence

  5. Acumen

  6. Conflict Style

Assesssments Utilized:

StrengthsFinder

Donald Clifton said, “What would happen if we studied what is right with people” and so began the StrengthsFinder movement. 

People have innate talents that they leverage every day.  Those talents are how they make sense of the world and interact. 

Using the StrengthsFinder Assessment (Gallup) we can identify the specific Talents of each person. 

Individually understanding our Strengths allow us to engage more completely, find greater satisfaction with our work and engagements, we feel more energized and are more successful. 

When teams work with StrengthsFinder we have the ability to maximize the teams ability and to leverage key elements transforming ordinary teams to High Performing Teams.

 

Meyers Briggs Assessment

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the most widely used personality assessment in the world.

With a proven record of reliability spanning more than 50 years, it offers a foundation for understanding individual differences and applying that understanding to the ways people think, communicate, and interact.

Versatile and dependable, the MBTI tool sets the stage for lifelong learning and development.

  • Where you focus your attention

    • Extraversion (E)

    • Introversion (I)

  • The way you take in information

    • Sensing (S)

    • Intuition (N)

  • The way you make decisions

    • Thinking (T)

    • Feeling (F)

  • How you deal with the outer world

    • Judging (J)

    • Perceiving (P)

 
 
 

Thomas Kilmann Inventory - Conflict

The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is the world's best-selling instrument for conflict resolution.

Using the TKI, individuals can learn to move beyond conflict and focus on achieving organizational goals and business objectives.

Organizations can apply the TKI to such challenges as change management, team building, leadership development, stress management, negotiation, and communication

 

Tri Metrix EQ

Leveraging the power of three sciences, TTI TriMetrix EQ measures your ability to sense, understand and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity.

TriMetrix EQ combines Behaviors, Motivators, and Emotional Intelligence in a fully integrated assessment.

Certifications

TTI Assessments

The Beamish Group is proud to be a certified analyst and distributor for TTI assessments including Behaviors, Motivators, Emotional Intelligence, Accumen, Individual and Organizational 360 Degree Assessments and other assessment services.