Individual Assessments

Find out if:

• Leaders have the right skills and behaviors to move your organization forward.
• Teams are functioning at a mediocre or high level of performance.
• Internal customers communicate as effectively as they could to best serve your external customers.
• Individuals want to stay and contribute to your organization's growth.

Gaining Insight:
KEYGroup® is professionally certified to deliver a full range of assessments that provide insight into the true capabilities of your leaders and your company. These assessments enable you to analyze your retention quotients, leadership strength, interaction styles, thinking preferences, communication styles, and overall health of your organization. Our assessments provide you with valuable feedback, emphasizing success or highlighting necessary change. Our goal is to support leaders in building vision-guided, value-driven successful organizations - for the long term.

Determine whether:

• Executive leaders possess the necessary skills and behaviors to facilitate and lead your company.
• Teams are focusing on the right initiatives and exceeding performance standards.
• Internal customers are utilizing effective communication strategies to best serve your external customers.
• Individuals want to contribute to the growth of your company and its future endeavors.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)
The MBTI®® is a self-report questionnaire designed to help individuals determine their personality type. It emphasizes individuals' preferences in four key areas:

1. Where they primarily direct their focus and energy
2. How they prefer to process information
3. How they prefer to make decisions
4. How they prefer to organize their life

The MBTI® helps individuals and teams to improve professional relationships, increase productivity, and produce results more quickly and efficiently.

Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)
The HBDI profile illustrates and explains the methods of thinking, learning, communicating, and decision-making in individuals. Understanding these preferences enables individuals to optimize their ability to adapt their thinking, while communicating more effectively in different professional settings.

The HBDI provides an in-depth analysis of thinking patterns, information processing, and work preferences. It is a powerful catalyst for increased team effectiveness:

• Improves communication: Break down the barriers, create more effective listening and discussion strategies, generate a common language
• Increases Productivity: Maximize the brain power of the team
• Encourages Innovation: Ignite breakthrough thinking and creativity for high- involvement with team members
• Enhances Performance: Match individual strengths to specific tasks
• Assists Management: Understand how to motivate and lead employees with diverse thinking styles

Personal Profile System (DISC)
The foundation of professional success lies in understanding self, understanding others and realizing the impact of personal behavior in the professional environment. DISC is a multi-level learning tool for exploring behavioral issues in four key dimensions: dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness. This assessment helps individuals determine to what degree they operate in each dimension for their particular work environment. It is the culmination of extensive field research and testing, and is scaled in accordance to today's diverse workforce.

The Personal Profile System helps individuals in your organization:

• Discover behavioral strengths.
• Value the strengths of others.
• Manage effectively.
• Foster teamwork.
• Develop strategies to meet diverse needs.
• Improve communication skills.
• Increase sales.
• Improve customer relationships.
• Reduce conflict and stress.

Life Orientations Training (LIFO)
LIFO training focuses on the strengths of leaders, teams, and individuals. It begins by identifying each person's basic orientation to life and work. Based on this information, it offers powerful learning strategies for greater personal productivity, increased influence with key people, and more effective teamwork. LIFO will enable your company to build collaborative teamwork, bridge the communication gap, and break the productivity barrier.

Profiles International
Profiles International assessments can be easily accessed by your employees and are comprehensively tested and validated. Administering these assessments can facilitate your company to:

• Hire the right people for the right job - Step One Survey
• Measure behavioral tendencies that are critical job-related competencies - Profiles Performance Indicator
• Determine job-fit and placement - The Profile
• Evaluate the manager's perception of skills and competencies compared to his or her boss, direct reports and peers - Checkpoint 360 Feedback
• Determine the individual's potential success rate for hard-to-fill positions - Sales Indicator; Customer Service Indicator and Call Center Survey
• Analyze a team's strengths, weaknesses and blind spots - The Profile Team Analysis
• Conduct effective background checks - Background Check Packet

Profiles International assessment tools focus on understanding and objectively measuring core competencies, behaviors, and interests of employees in companies and industries. It helps companies avoid costly mistakes, identify and develop leadership skills of supervisors, managers, and executives, and ultimately increase employee retention of top performing employees.

Use of these Profiles International assessments can help you to:

• Reduce annualized voluntary turnover
• Improve employee motivation
• Increase sales
• Increase productivity and customer service levels
• Decrease employee theft

Employee Engagement Surveys
Optimizing employee satisfaction and involvement is the key to the successful growth and sustainability of an organization. KEYGroup® offers customized Employee Engagement Surveys created and administered by Edward J. Donovan, a specialist in the design and delivery of employee and workplace needs assessments. Through careful analysis of these assessments, KEYGroup® provides valuable insights into your company. Your company will be provided with customized design, and measurable outcomes to develop an implementation plan and a baseline for evaluating progress.

By addressing and instituting interim review of employee engagement issues over time, your company can:

• Improve employee relations and reduce grievances
• Solicit suggestions for improvement
• Retain top talent
• Better serve customers
• Reduce turnover
• Strengthen recruitment