WHAT ARE ASSESSMENTS?
Performance Assessments are focused on increasing knowledge and awareness. People learn more about themselves, their blind spots, their developmental gaps and their strengths. They also learn how others perceive them, since perception is reality - this is key. Below are some of the assessments that, combined with effective feedback and coaching, can dramatically increase performance. Click on the individual assessment for more information.
Behavioral Style (DISC) – Provides a detailed individual report focused on improving effectiveness by identifying strengths, communication styles, problem solving abilities, ability to work with and influence others, how one operates under stress and recommendations for improvement. It takes 10 minutes to complete the assessment and is rated 90% accurate by clients.Click Here For Detailed Description
Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values (PIAV) – Identifies the primary motivators that drive a person, thus illuminating what individuals are compelled to do and what they don’t feel drawn to. It is useful for not only understanding self and others, but also validates career and job fit.Click Here For Detailed Description
360-degree Discovery – Offers a full spectrum view of a person’s performance on the job from the perspectives of up to ten people (peers, direct reports, boss, customers and self). This report illuminates other’s perceptions. Widely used for leadership and management development.Click Here For Detailed Description
Peak Performance Enhancement Program (PEP) – A wellness program for businesspeople, athletes, and anyone who wants to boost performance; developed by Dr. Joel Robertson, author of Peak Performance Living: Drug-free Ways to alter your own brain chemistry for improved productivity, greater energy, sharper thinking and optimal health. The 180-question survey provides you with your individual brain chemistry and the accompanying recommendations for how you can use behaviors and dietary choices to balance your neurochemistry and thus experience your best self.Click Here For Detailed Description
The Retirement Success Profile (RSP): Retiring Is a Career Transition - Just as a personal assessment is a central component of any plan for your career transition; so too is assessment the logical starting place for retirement preparation as well. That what's the RSP is all about. It is a scientifically designed, valid, and reliable assessment profile which measures the 15 factors shown to be crucial for pre-retirees to come to a comprehensive personal understanding of themselves so they can navigate the road to personal success in their next career developmental step, whatever option for retirement living they adopt. Click Here For Detailed Description
Behavioral Profile (DISC)
Analyzes the behavioral style; that is, a person’s manner of solving problems and challenges, ability to influence and work with others, ability to work in a rapid dynamic environment and to manage information and structure.
The DISC assessment tells us HOW a person behaves and performs in the work environment. This profile helps individuals understand how they project themselves to different people in different situations, so they can develop strategies to meet the needs of the role, culture and people.
The report measures the “how” of behavior and is the only DISC tool on the market to have been predictably validated. The predictive validation of this tool allows organizations to build a profile of the executives that excel in your environment and to hire and develop others to that profile.
What are the Benefits?
- Learn your value to the organization
- Target characteristics that can move you from a "manager" of people to a "leader" of people
- Learn strategies for communicating openly, honestly and directly to get the results you and your organization need
- Learn to what extent you adapt your behavior in the workplace
Why learn about behaviors?
Behavioral research suggests that the most effective people are those who understand themselves - their strengths and weaknesses - so they can develop strategies to meet the demands of their environment. Leadership is directly tied to self-understanding and awareness.
What Does this Assessment Look at?
- How we respond to problems and challenges
- How we influence others to our point of view
- How we respond to the pace of the work environment
- How we respond to the rules and procedures set by others
How Does it work?
This assessment is a one page, 24 question form that takes only 10 minutes to complete. It looks at thousands of interrelationships between responses.
Once we have the completed form, we have it scored and generate a report. We then send the client the report and schedule a feedback session. This report, combined with our feedback session helps people better understand their behavior as well as other people's behavior.
Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values (PIAV)
Knowledge of an individual's values and attitudes help tell us WHY they do things. The PIAV report measures the relative prominence of six basic interests, attitudes and or values. Attitudes are the prominent drivers behind human behavior and are sometimes called the hidden motivators because they are not readily observed. Knowledge of one’s motivating values helps that person position themselves in roles they will thrive in, and helps them understand how this plays out in their business relationships. In fact, most relationships either fail or succeed based on values.
This values inventory measures the relative prominence of six basic interests or motives in behavior:
- Theoretical - A passion to discover, systematize and analyze; a search for knowledge.
- Utilitarian - A passion to gain return on investment of time, resources and money.
- Aesthetic - A passion to experience the impressions of the world, achieve form and harmony.
- Social - A passion to eliminate pain and conflict in the world and to assist others in becoming all they can be.
- Individualistic - A passion to achieve position and to use that to affect and influence others.
- Traditional - A passion to seek out and pursue the higher meaning in life and achieve a system for living.
Benefits of the PIAV
- Be more effective overall
- Understand conflict, career satisfaction or dissatisfaction
- Understand relationships and interaction
- Illuminates and amplifies motivating factors
- Builds on personal strengths
How Does it Work?
This assessment is a one page, 12 question form that takes only 10 minutes to complete. It is simple and amazing in the results it produces because it looks at hundreds of inter-relationships between responses.
Once we have the form completed, we have it scored and a report is generated. We then send the client the report and schedule a feedback session. This report, combined with our feedback session is often what one of the most valuable developmental experiences for clients.
We then build on the assessment by coaching the client in pursuing their goals based on their values. This is the place to start, too often people pursue goals that are not aligned with values and then find themselves unmotivated to accomplish them. Our coaching is values-based so that goals are attractive and doable.
Discovery 360-Degree Feedback
What is a 360-degree Assessment?
The Discovery 360 is a powerful tool for providing feedback and helping an individual improve the primary competencies required for optimal performance. Unlike many other 360 tools on the market, Discovery 360 is fully customizable and can be linked to the Performance DNA position competency profile.
Discovery 360 is also a dual factor instrument, meaning that the tool measures performance perceptions about how well someone is doing in a specific areas and also how well they should be doing given the unique demands of a specific role. Lastly, Discovery 360 allows an organization to dissect performance results and create reporting at the team, group or enterprise level. This reporting provides senior executives and human resource professionals insights into performance strengths and deficiencies. This information allows the organization to target development resources and gain the greatest return on those investment dollars.
Why perform a 360-degree Assessment?
Research tells us that managers who receive 360-degree feedback can improve their performance. This assessment gathers information from several people about an individual's effectiveness. This gives a person the unique opportunity to see themselves through the eyes of others. This tool will identify areas in which a person is performing above, at or below the standards of his/her boss, self, peers and customers.
The 360 assessment is a powerful tool for helping individuals improve, grow and develop their "soft" (interpersonal) skills. Evidence tells us that better "soft" skills lead to better "hard" results. The development of effective soft skills begins with the awareness of ineffective soft skills. The 360 assessment shows an individual what others think their performance is versus what it should be and what they think it is. The understanding of others' perception will increase an individual's drive for success, when he/she is given the information in a coaching feedback session.
How Does it Work?
Our 360-degree tool can look at these areas and/or any others that we customize depending on the client:
- Leadership
- Empowerment
- Performance Management/Coaching
- Integrity/Initiative
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Quality
- Customer Service
Once the competencies that are to be assessed are identified, we customize the 360 tool to specifically look at those. Then the 360 questionnaire goes out the people that have been identified by either the individual for whom the 360 is being done, or their leader. When the results come back, we generate a detailed report showing the gaps between where they are and where they need to be. We then coach to close those gaps.
Peak Performance Enhancement Program (PEP)
Dr. Joel Robertson, pharmacologist and consultant to Fortune 100 corporations and professional sports teams has developed this scientifically proven program to improve performance, increase concentration, and boost energy by altering brain chemistry – naturally without such drugs as Prozac.
What Does This Assessment Look at?
- Are you stressed and not sleeping?
- Do you lose patience easily?
- Do you crave sweets and carbohydrates?
- Do you lose energy long before the day is over?
- Do you have trouble remembering things?
- Do you have trouble taking off those extra pounds?
- Do you have trouble maintaining successful relationships?
- Is exercising difficult for you or are you addicted to exercise?
As a coach, I‘ve often watched clients who appeared to be clear about what they wanted out of life and would work to make it happen; yet it wasn’t happening or they had to struggle to make it happen. When I read the book Peak Performance Living by Dr.Joel Robertson, I begin to understand why. When our brain chemistry is out of balance, our behaviors don’t make a lot of sense. We often work through lunch, cry at the drop of a hat, yell at our children or eat a whole bag of potato chips!
In the United States 60% of women have low serotonin. Some of the signs are low self-esteem, poor concentration, indecisiveness, procrastination, weight gain, and poor boundaries. For men (and some women), it is often high dopamine – increased heart rate, impulsiveness, muscle tension, short-attention span, anger, work through the night to complete a project or can’t sleep.
Your brain chemistry influences your performance, your attitude, your perceptions, your expectations, your behaviors and your relationships. The brain has no morals, it just wants what it wants when it wants it and is constantly striving to arrive at new place. Unfortunately what feels good TO you is usually not good FOR you.
Normal brain chemistry is affected by 4 majors:
- Exercise (the specific type of exercise and the specific frequency)
- Diet (what, when and how much you eat and drink)
- Activities you are involved in (like work, entertainment, even the type and beat of the music you listen to, the books you read, the movies you watch)
- Spiritual practices (walks in nature, prayer, meditation, God, or the lack of, community service)
When your brain chemistry is in balance, your mind is clearer, your perceptions more true, your energy stays up so you get more done, concentration and sleep are better and often the pounds melt away!
How Does It Work?
This confidential profile consists of a private coaching session to determine if this program is right for you and if so, then you will fill out the comprehensive survey (180 questions). When Dr. Robertson returns your personalized profile to me, we then have another session to explain the report and how to integrate it into your life. The four areas mentioned above will be specifically designed for your individual profile, based on your answers and what you said you would be willing to do; approximately 35 pages. Additional coaching sessions are included and scheduled to make sure the program is working for you and continues to work for you so that you can develop and maintain brain optimization and performance enhancement.
This is not a treatment profile - it is a knowledge profile. With the proper knowledge you can design your life for balance and peak performance. This profile is for healthy persons who want to be even healthier. It is totally confidential. Contact Judy and she’ll share with you directly her own personal benefits of working with this profile.
The Retirement Success Profile (RSP): Retiring Is a Career Transition
Just as a personal assessment is a central component of any plan for your career transition; so too is assessment the logical starting place for retirement preparation as well. That what's the RSP is all about.
The RSP is a scientifically designed, valid, and reliable assessment profile which measures the 15 factors shown to be crucial for pre-retirees to come to a comprehensive personal understanding of themselves so they can navigate the road to personal success in their next career developmental step, whatever option for retirement living they adopt.
The 15 retirement success factors are:- Career Reorientation: Let Go. . .
- Retirement Value: Reframe Your Attitudes. . .
- Personal Empowerment: Take Charge. . .
- Physical Wellness: Grow Well. . .
- Monetary Adequacy: Find Your Wealth. . .
- Quality of Life - Present: Seek Peace. . .
- Quality of Life - Future: Have Dreams. . .
- Spirituality/Meaning: Construct Purpose. . .
- Respect for Leisure: Have Fun. . .
- Personal Flexibility: Welcome Change. . .
- Lifespan Spiritual Development: Live Now. . .
- Care giving Responsibilities: Honor Yourself. . .
- Home Life: Get Connected. . .
- Maturation Vitality: Become Ageless. . .
- Replacement of Work Functions: Get Going
Good Retirement Decisions Come From Good Data
With your own Retirement Success Profile (RSP) `in hand' you will have the solid quantitative proof of the relevancy of the material for your own life. Since the Profile describes you alone, you become concretely yet intimately aware that this learning is personal; the material is not for the person sitting next to you ... it is for you! And with the specific adult learning suggestions and learning activities that flow from your RSP Personal Profile, you will immediately realize that the experience is individually practical.
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