Know Your Talent

"The match between your employees' values and the organization or team's values is a more powerful factor by far than money in keeping good people." ~ Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans of FastCompany.com

Are you concerned about retaining your best employees?

Do you want to create highly productive, motivated and loyal team members?

Do you want to optimize performance based on their individual natural talents and personalities?

If you answered YES to one or more questions, the three-step Know Your Talent system will help you achieve these results and more!

The Know Your Talent system, designed by two top executive coaches, is designed for management teams who are willing to invest in their human capital.

The benefits of the Know Your Talent system include:

• Retaining your talent – a cost and time savings in today's competitive marketplace
• Doing more with less resources – create high functioning teams
• Increased morale – satisfaction leads to more effective and innovative workers
• Unearthing hidden talents – who knows what your staff may be able to do!
• Ending ongoing conflicts – conserve valuable time and energy
• Optimizing job responsibilities – use your talent strategically
• Ongoing coaching - support managers to continually integrate the assessment information into real life situations

This three-step Know Your Talent system includes:

Step 1: Assessment testing

The Highland's Natural Abilities test

"Your company's future depends on its people. A happy and motivated worker is productive, creative and enterprising. A team whose members trust and respect each other can move mountains." – Lazar Emanuel, CEO, The Highlands Company

One key to successful management is understanding your employee's natural abilities. This allows you to better allocate your workforce and creates more satisfied employees by utilizing their strengths. The Highlands Ability Battery (THAB) is a state-of-the art tool that reliably gives you this exact information for nineteen innate abilities including: concept organization, classification, idea productivity, spatial relations, design memory, number memory and thirteen others. We believe that people are happiest when they work using their strongest abilities.

The Battery is an objective test of 19 abilities, each measured by a time-tested worksample taking three hours to complete. The Battery is available online and on a CD. Each employee's confidential results are reported and analyzed on a detailed 30-page Report. This test takes requires no advance preparation. Further discussion of ability scores will take place at the on-site.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Do you ever sit in meetings feeling like everyone is speaking a different language? Do certain tasks drain your energy? Do you feel frustrated when some team members consistently miss deadlines? Or, from your perspective, seem to focus too much on deadlines? The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator can help you eliminate these common sources of conflict and capitalize on innate personality preferences through easily applicable concepts.

The MBTI is a valid and reliable tool for assessing your personality type -- your source of energy, how you take in information, how you make decisions and how you orient yourself in the external world.

The MBTI will help you and your team understand:

• Your similarities and differences
• Your innate communication style
• Your natural decision making style
• Your favorite ways to manage time
• Your sources of energy – what drains and energizes you?

How does the MBTI instrument work? Simply set aside 30 minutes of your time. You'll need a pencil and quiet space. Once your assessment is scored, you'll receive a three page confidential report outlining your innate personality type.

Step 2: On-Site Presentation

During a full day on-site presentation, an analysis of the Highland's and Myers-Briggs results will be presented. The impact of this information for both individual and team will be applied through discussion and hands on exercises.
The combination of these two assessments will tell each team member their:

• Natural talents in 18 different categories
• Ideal work culture
• Long or short time frame orientation
• Most effective communication style
• Individual problem solving & decision making styles
• Five modes of learning & memory retention
• Energy orientation

Step 3: Implementation Coaching

We recommend follow up coaching to help leaders and managers integrate this new information into specific work challenges and projects.

1. Action Planning - develop and revise action plans to provide focus, commitment, accountability, and a context to use this new information.
    
2. Follow-up Coaching – these calls are conducted via telephone, 1-2 times per month throughout the year, and are intended to:
   
   
   • Review information and accelerate progress
   • Assess successes and challenges
   • Provide direct coaching and problem solving
   • Suggest solutions and next steps