Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Why Chose DISC Personality Profiles?



Small and large, non-profit firms and fortune 500 companies have all asked the question: Why should we conduct DISC personality profiles? The answer for many of these organizations has been simple: because they work.

We discussed, albeit in short, what a DISC personality test is in our previous blog. In doing so, we touched on a few of its key benefits. Owners and managers build powerful teams, develop effective training programs, improve customer retention, and increase productivity using the information obtained through a DISC profile. Test results also help operators enhance counseling programs, improve conflict management skills, helps train sales teams, and improves customer service.

Knowing an individual's personality profile helps managers lead more effectively. When you involve everyone, it helps individuals work together more effectively, too. That is because the profile puts a non-bias name to personality categories that everyone can understand. This facilitates conversations that quickly work around the conflicts that keep teams from producing what they should. In short, knowing the details of the DISC personality test helps teams communicate.

Good, confident communication is the key to business success. It changes everything for the better, from making sales to leading meetings and hiring the best personnel possible. The best way to see these results is through a DISC personality profile.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

DISC Personality Profiles - What Are They?


Understanding your workforce is a key factor for getting the most out of your company. It is crucial to effective management and it is vital to productivity. Enter the DISC personality profile (also known as the DISC personality test). This non-judgmental system analyzes behavioral differences people have, helping you understand your employees and optimize the work they do.

DISC stands for: dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness. These are the four, core factors measured by the personality test and used to create the profile. Though they are all very different, they are not dissimilar. For instance:

·         Dominance-based individuals are characterized by and individual who focuses on results.
·         Influence types tend to place meaning on influencing others. They are also very open.
·         Steadiness is characterized by cooperation, a sincere persona, and reliability.
·         Conscientiousness is a person who focuses on value and accuracy. They want to be the experts.

The aforementioned characteristics are seen in everyone—even if they are seen in small amounts. Identifying the strong traits along with underlying accent traits is essential to a number of business and management operations. This includes building winning teams, constructing training materials, and focusing coaching techniques.

Whether you are looking to build the ideal sales force, improve customer retention rates, or increase operation capacity. An accurate, non-bias DISC personality profile is a solid step in the right direction.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Finding the Right Personnel

Locating the ideal job candidate in a job posting is like finding a needle in a stack of needles. With unemployment rates hovering and employed persons more apt than ever to seek other positions, it's no wonder that your job postings produce hundreds and even thousands of responses. Out of that resume stack though, which person is the right person for the job?

Sorting through piles of resumes is time consuming and it is something we increasingly do not have time for. Fortunately, there is a better way. There is a more accurate way. Moreover, there is a better, more scientific means of churning the milk and helping the cream rise to the top.

Enter psychometric pre-employment testing. These tools relieve the pressure related to finding ideal qualified professionals. Most importantly, through these tools, you and your hiring staff access branded job boards, unlimited listings, usable reports, and friendly application processes. More specifically, your company creates a pipeline for its future job needs.


In addition to providing you with the information you need to select the best of the best, our system supplies you with measureable, itemized results. This data is vital to a company's success this day in age. Everything is fast paced in our world today. Your ideal applicants will not be there for months, waiting for the best prospect. They will be enticed by the first. Our tools help your business be that prospect.

Friday, November 21, 2014

Sales Professionals - Hiring Benefits of Employee Screening

As employers, we want the best sales experts possible. We want top-performing, focused individuals who are self-motivated and driven by success. When you find these princes and princesses of profitability, we know it. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a better way to know who is on the level and who is not?

Applicant testing is the key to discovering sales professionals, weeding out individuals who don't have the right stuff, and arming your company with the personnel it needs to grow. Remember though, when you want the best of the best, you must trust the best of the tests.

Detailed analytic tools like our employee screening (SSI) test measure every aspect of a sales professional. They take personality elements into account, quantify relationship building skills, and calculate basic as well as advanced sales skills.

Our SSI Test Assesses Skills Like:
Prospecting
Impression and Approach
Qualifying
Persuasion
Closing


In addition to providing you with tangible evidence, our test gives you a recommended basis for the aforementioned and other measurements. This makes selecting the best of the best as easy as averaging grades—and our test does the math for you. Moreover, it puts additional training needs into focus by noting how below or above a person is relative to each field. 

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Keeping Your Workforce Happy - Our Employee Retention Strategies

Maintaining your existing workforce is just as important as adding new faces through business growth and development. We understand that managers provide the greatest value when they motivate their team and have a positive influence on their co-workers. Using our coaching tools, we can show you how to overwrite failure patterns, and measure employee satisfaction.

Our employee retention strategies use 3 different tools to maximize effectiveness:
  • Corporate Coaching Tools – A corporate coach measures an employee’s attitude toward the company and their position, while improving development and morale. This set of tools allows for improved communication between employees and managers, along with providing various training solutions.
  • Emotional Intelligence Quotient – Measuring self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills, an EIQ is designed to improve an employee’s ability to interact with and influence others around them. This helps managers and other officials make difficult and complex decisions.
  • Professional Development Coach – used for management, staff, and sales training purposes, this toolset measures how an individual’s approach to his or her job reflects personal attitudes, interests, and values. This helps you understand, engage, and develop each employee in your organization.
Contact us today at AptitudeAnalytics.com to learn more about employee retention and other strategies to maintain key individuals at your business. 

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Aptitude Analytics - The Applicant Testing Specialists

Whether you’re managing a small business or a multi-national corporation, finding the right employees is always a difficult task. Not only do you have to spend a lot of time making sure your potential hires are productive and reliable, they also have to be a perfect fit for your company.  Aptitude Analytics simplifies the process of finding the highly qualified individuals your company needs.

Founded in 2003, Aptitude Analytics provides hiring managers with the tools they need to systematically and cost effectively improve their odds of hiring better employees. Using psychometric assessments, Aptitude Analytics can measure knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits, and education level to help you find the perfect match for your business.

There are more job seekers today than ever before and reviewing hundreds or thousands of applications is daunting and time-consuming. Using our resources, we free your company from resume- based hiring procedures. Now you can select your top candidates from an easy-to-read report and focus on just those who deserve your attention.

Our process is both employer and applicant friendly, so it’s easy to perform assessments, set benchmarks, and even automatically send rejection letters to those who don’t make the cut.

Perform accurate applicant testing today with Aptitude Analytics. Visit us at AptitudeAnalytics.com.