About Employee Assessments

Overview of Employee Assessments

In many organizations, personnel costs are among the largest budget line items. Given the top challenges facing CEO’s, organizations need their leaders, managers, and people aligned and working together at the highest levels of performance.

Employee assessments can give organizations and managers consistent, in-depth, and objective information about their people. This includes the employee’s:

Fit with organizational culture, job, manager, and team
Knowledge, skills, job performance, and developmental needs
Preferred learning and communication style
Integrity, reliability and work ethic, and attitude towards substance abuse
Response to conflict, stress, and frustration and likelihood of aggression

Information uncovered from assessments helps leaders and managers rely less on gut instinct and make smarter people decisions. The specific benefits include:

Selecting people most likely to succeed in a job
Accelerating time for people to become fully productive in a new role
Improving alignment and communication between managers and employees
Reducing workforce conflict and improving employee satisfaction
Maximizing each employee’s contribution to the organization
Reducing employee absenteeism and turnover
Reducing frequency and cost of theft
Increasing sales performance and customer loyalty
Enabling strategic workforce management and succession planning
Increasing overall workforce capability, productivity, and agility

Most Valuable Uses of Assessments

Although an HR department may manage the day-to-day administration of an assessment program, these initiatives thrive in the organization when sponsored by senior leaders who are committed to building and retaining a high-performing workforce.