Building a competitive company

We have three big levers to pull. Our marketing strategy, the people we're going to do this with, and the management systems, (both soft and hard) that will hold it all together. The thinking at the top is most critical. One right decision can effect the entire health of the company. One policy decision, a misunderstanding of customers, a wrong choice in people, all have long reaching impact.

Thursday, 27 September 2012

How Trait Testing Becomes a Management Advantage.

Testing reaches into every level, 100% of your company's employees. Make testing part of your hiring practices. Here's why.
  1. Testing is three times more effective at predicting behaviour than is interviewing. Anyone that is being interviewed, has to be tested.
  2. Job fit. Workplace and culture fit translate into morale, teamwork, and productivity. Only people working in their correct roles can produce at high levels.
  3. Company morale. Use testing to establish a company culture benchmark to measure all new hires against.
  4. Often managers hire individually across a company. Testing ensures uniform hiring practices.
  5. Testing candidates generates specific questions for managers to use to drill down in second interviews.
  6. Without test results for each person, managers are working blind. Managers can't manage people they don't understand. Pushing for compliance is not enough.
Managers assess people at three levels:

Level 1. - Candidate appears to. (Interviewing, in person meetings)
Level 2. - Candidate can do. (Resume, experience, skills, education)
Level 3. - Candidate will do. (Testing, character, work ethic, maturity, personality traits).

It doesn't matter how great the candidate is if they "won't do." After you read the resume, determine if they "will do." Make testing a management tool to push productivity.

For more information call Metrik Management Inc. at 604-931-6813 or email Wolf@managing.ca

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