Assessments
Identifying opportunity for growth
Service Overview
Organizational Assessments
People Assessments
Understanding your starting point to reach your goals
We collaborate with team members at all levels as we utilize Organizational and Individual Assessments. We assess strengths, leverage existing resources, and identify areas for improvement. Through active listening, we gain a deeper understanding of team member roles and uncover opportunities for growth and enhancement. These services include, but are not limited to, human capital strategy, organizational assessments, diversity and inclusion initiatives, leadership and team assessments, succession planning, executive coaching, employee engagement, business continuity and strategic consulting.
Step 1 : Discovery
We take the time to get to know the challenges in your organization and/or team in order to develop your custom approach.
Step 2: Recommendations
We recommend where to start evaluating and assessing first, based on the observations and the needs that have been communicated to us.
Step 3: Mobilization and Communication
We begin the process with a communications plan for the organization and are transparent with the team about the assessments, potential outcomes, and milestones, all with an underlying focus of actions leading to progress and not retribution.
Step 4: Data Collection & Analysis
We administer assessments, conduct surveys and engage in interviews at all the necessary levels of the organization. We then go through the data and analyze the results to find trends and insights that will guide recommendations.
Step 5: Review Recommendations
We review the key findings from the data captured and develop recommendations to drive successful change based on the results coupled with the organization’s strategic goals. We work with you to modify our initial recommendations based on additional inputs to create a phased plan for implementation that is manageable for your unique team and organization.
Step 6: Implementation
We encourage managed and phased change for any organization. Our phased approach outlines clear next steps in a project schedule that aligns with your leadership’s approved execution plan.
Our Approach to Assessments
Organizational Reviews
Get a holistic view of your organization by reviewing the structure, departments, communication channels, resources and team leadership. If you are looking to gain a better understanding of what’s working and where there might be opportunities to refine and improve the organization’s success, our services are built for you.
Analyses + Studies
We analyze data from various sources (surveys, interviews, town halls, local and regional markets, etc) and develop recommendations and strategies to support the strategic vision and future growth of the organization. Separately, we offer studies that focus on different departments to ensure cultural and strategic alignment, readiness for change and preparedness for growth to meet the organization’s short and long-term objectives.
Process & Policy Evaluations
It is important to have regular evaluations and reviews of your organization's internal processes and policies to ensure they are enabling progress for your organization and not holding you back. We evaluate your organization to provide insight and data on what may be causing friction, identifying inconsistencies of process and/or policy application across departments and which policies are outdated or simply roadblocks to success..
Organizational Assessments
Our Organizational Assessment Solutions are designed to support our clients in evaluating, managing, developing, retaining, and empowering individuals and teams within their organizations. ACS provides a range of programs, catering to everyone from executive leadership to frontline employees.
People Assessments
Assessing your team is key to understanding what you have; and eye-opening to what you don't. Once you know, developing your team and reaching new heights becomes achievable. Our people focused assessments are centered around the most important asset of your organization, your team and your leadership. Specific proven assessments we use are the Hogan Personality Series, Hogan Emotional Intelligence, and our proprietary Executive Competency Assessment.
We evaluate what type of culture currently exists and if it’s one that is inviting and inclusive of modern organizations of today and tomorrow. We work with leadership to evaluate if the employees feel safe, supported, heard and valued by the organization. If you as the leader do not know where your organization stands, you’re likely overdue for a cultural assessment. Knowing and acting on the cultural data of your organization allows you to be more aware and grants you the ability to train and develop the team towards an improved culture. A byproduct of having an inviting and inclusive culture is improved recruitment and retention.
We find it important to understand what drives your employees, their level of motivation and engagement, and their overall satisfaction with the organization, their teams, and their leaders. Identifying the factors that contribute to your team’s success provides valuable insights to help you drive organizational success in the short and long-term. When was the last time you conducted an unbiased employee engagement survey?
We encourage our clients to have everyone take the Hogan Personality and the Hogan Emotional Intelligence Assessments. It allows you to understand the internal drivers, leadership strengths and opportunities of the team members taking it. Understanding these key data points and characteristics of your teams’ personalities can help you strategically lead, manage, develop and achieve greater productivity and profitability for your organization.
Following the Hogan Assessments, we perform a deeper individual assessment for teams to understand their background, education, experiences and their mastery of executive-level competencies. The collective assessments and evaluation enable us to determine one’s overall mastery of executive leadership as it relates to their specific role. Our unique formula of evaluating people and teams is vital to understanding one’s career path and allows us to work with them to create Individual Development Plans (IDPs) for future growth.
Our Approach
1. Discovery
Where they feel stuck or are noticing organizational or team challenges