Measuring Personality Traits and Behaviours of Employeesfor the purpose of enhancing their engagement and efficiency

Anna Ward & Matt Pocock

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Who We Are

Consulting Tools has been a provider and developer of leading edge web-based assessment and development tools for 20 years

Located in Cambridge (UK) and operates internationally through a partner network in over 30 countries

Provides tools that drive measurable performance improvements for individuals, teams and organisations

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Who We Are

Used worldwide by Consultants, Coaches, Recruiters and Human Resource Professionals in recruitment, talent selection, development, engagement and retention.

Tools currently available in 25 languages including Serbian (partnership with Advance Response International)

Works predominantly in the intermediary sector, supplying consultancy clients of all sizes and our tools are used by some of the world’s biggest organisations

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What We Do

ConsultingTools’ solutions address key people issues that drive organisational performance

ORGANISATIONS TEAMS INDIVIDUALS

Maximising PerformanceBuilding high performance Teams

CoachingDevelopment

WellbeingPerformance Management

RecruitingCreating strong cultures

Identifying and building talent Succession planning

Engaging staffLeading

Retaining key staff

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What is Engagement?

“A positive, fulfilling, affective-motivational state of work-related well-being”

“Engagement can be defined in terms of high levels of energy and high levels of involvement in work”

Leiter and Bakker (2010)

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What is Engagement?

Engagement has often been used to describe a diverse set of measures:

Psychological States (e.g., energy, involvement, commitment, satisfaction, job burnout, perceived stress, perceived justice, empowerment)

Personality (e.g., positive affect, negative affect, conscientiousness, resilience/hardiness, optimism, core self-evaluations, proactive personality)

Behaviours/Performance (e.g., organisational citizenship behaviour, initiative, high performance, collaboration/team work, dishonesty)

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What is Engagement?

Is “engagement” a state,

that impacts other things, or the outcome?

Talent today don’t leave organisations,

they leave toxic leaders and

poor leadership practices !

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Engagement Factors

Top “retention drivers” -

1.Exciting work/challenge

2.Career growth, learning and development

3.Relationships and working with great people

A Gallop study, with 2 million employees in 700 US companies, found tenure and productivity to be directly related to relationships between employees and their supervisors and not salary !

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Engagement & Performance Connection

Ambivalent employees have low morale, feel unappreciated and are likely to leave the organization

Actively Disengaged employees are unproductive and their negative emotions are contagious to others

• Engaged employees are fully committed to the mission, vision, values of the company

• Enrolled employees tend to be motivated and generally are solid producers

Blessing & White, Employee Engagement 2011 Global Study, December 2010Gallup Consulting, The State of the American Workforce, 2008 – 2010, November 2010

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How our tools help with Engagement

1. Investing in people and giving them feedback motivates and engages

2.Developing effective leadership skills and behaviours

3. Identifying individuals core drivers to support career planning and job satisfaction

4.Building effective working relationships

5.Personality tests can give clues about whether people will be motivated by say, money, praise, esteem

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How our tools help with Engagement

6. Personality and 360° Feedback affect engagement indirectly by giving managers instructions on how to manage someone effectively

7. Providing an understanding of an individuals strength and development areas to facilitate development planning

8. Understanding organisational culture and defining optimum culture

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Helps maximise job performance and job satisfaction by:

Providing clarity around an individual’s natural preferences and strengths to facilitate professional development planning

Enables you to identify an individual’s core drivers and motivating factors:

– to help identify how to maximise these in their current role

–support career and succession planning

Personality profiling and building engagement and efficiency

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Helps maximise job performance and job satisfaction by:

Builds an appreciation of diversity and how to flex our style when working with others for effective working

Supports effective leadership behaviours

Provides guidance for managers on how best to manage, motivate and inspire an individual

Personality profiling and building engagement and efficiency

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Facet5 Personality Tool

Based on the ‘Big 5’ factor personality model: the globally accepted gold standard for describing and predicting behaviour

Measures these five factors precisely and quickly to give the most accurate and easily applied portrait of individual differences in behaviour

Allows understanding into how people differ in their behaviour, motivation, attitudes and aspirations.

Quick and easy to complete on-line, understand and interpret

Designed specifically for business usage

Available in over 30 languages including Serbian, with local norms

Proved in the real world: it has been used by many blue chip companies, consultancies and SMEs.

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Facet5 Addresses the Full Cycle of People Issues

To maximise engagement and efficiency…

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360 Degree Feedback

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How does 360 Degree Feedback support engagement and efficiency?

Provides the participant with an opportunity to learn how others perceive them, leading to increased self‐awareness

Facilitates professional development planning: how to leverage their strengths and address their development areas

Clarifies supervisory and managerial expectations

Engages employees in the organisational goals, by increasing their understanding of the behaviours required to improve

Repeat 360 assessments provide an efficient measure of progress and a powerful motivator for employees

Is a powerful initiator for individual and team change

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360° Feedback Product Offering

A complete range of 360 degree feedback tools – Used in performance management, talent spotting and development

•A suite of research based validated 360 feedback tools

•Designed for non-management up to senior executive

•Available in multiple languages

•Fully flexible to an organisation’s exact needs

•Utilises client’s own competency framework to provide precise measurement against organisational goals

•An online competency/item database of over 800 items

•Pick and choose items to build your 360 degree feedback questionnaire

•Contains all items within our off the shelf tools and much more.

Off the Shelf 360Degree Feedback

Tools

Off the Shelf 360Degree Feedback

Tools

360 Degree Competency Library

Customised 360 Degree Tool

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The 360° Feedback System and Customised Reports

• Web based questionnaire, administration and feedback reporting system

• Flexible system customised for the client

• Incorporating full client branding (logos, colours, images)

• User friendly and accessible to all

• Automated process management

• A safe, confidential and ISO secure system

• Questionnaires available in multiple languages• Fully branded to the organisation

• Highly visual reporting options

• Clear and accessible data and messages

• Organisational, level and function reports to support targeted development

• Optional repeat 360 reports

•Available in multiple languages

The 360 degree reports

The online 360 degree system

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Our Range of Standard 360 Tools

A range of standard off-the-shelf assessment tools, well researched and validated:

•Emotional IntelligenceView360 – based on Daniel Goleman EI model, a competency based 360 measuring; Self Management, Relationship Management and Communication

•ExecutiveView360 – an in-depth report on senior executives' strengths and developmental needs measuring Performance, Change, Interpersonal and Personal Leadership competencies

•LeaderView360 – a concise assessment focused on middle and senior managers measuring Planning, Problem solving, Controlling, Self Management, Managing Relationships, Leading and Communicating

•ManagerView360 – for supervisory, middle to senior managers who would prefer a more detailed analysis measuring Communication, Performance Management, Interpersonal and Problem Solving

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Our Range of Standard 360 Tools

A range of standard off-the-shelf assessment tools, well researched and validated:

•PerformanceView360 – for non-supervisory and non-managerial staff measuring communication, task and inter-personal based competencies

•SalesView360 – aimed at internal and external sales and account representatives measuring sales, interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies

•Sales ManagerView360 - aimed at sales supervisors and managers measuring Sales Performance Leadership, Interpersonal Leadership and Intrapersonal Leadership

•TeamView360 – team based 360 tool which invites each team member to provide feedback on each other

•Transformational LeaderView360 – measures Transformational and Transactional Leadership

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Competency Library

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Provide individual or group coaching to assist in interpreting and using the 360 feedback results

Hold participant and manager accountable to create and implement a professional development plan

Track and monitor progress on the completion of the development plan

Link the 360 intervention to a human resources performance management process

Use 360 tools with sound psychometric properties

Target competencies for 360 feedback interventions that are related to strategic business needs

360° Feedback “Best Practices

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Facet5 and 360: A Powerful Combination

Facet5 measures natural preferences and predicts how an individual is likely to choose to behave…

…..360° Feedback focuses on observed behaviour

Together, they help you identify:

How personality preferences drive observed behaviour

Where learnt behaviours have been built/need to be built

Learned Skills

Observable Behaviour360 Degree Feedback

Natural PreferencesFacet5

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The Benefits of combining Facet5 and 360

The combined perspectives based on predicted and actual behaviour offer a number of benefits including:

Provides a depth of understanding and information to focus development

Helps differentiate natural preferences from learnt behaviour and identify where change will be most difficult

360 feedback (skills/competency oriented) are psychometrics most closely associated with job performance/efficacy

Personality is associated with both job performance (e.g., drive/conscientiousness) and emotional states associated with engagement (e.g., energy, sociability)

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A Selection of Global Users…

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and some of our users in Serbia and region

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