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Performance Optimization

  • Better match tasks to skills

  • Increase employee productivity

  • Increase employee job satisfaction

  • Create a better sense of career path

With a Baseline Skills Assessment, you will be armed to better match tasks to abilities, which will help you ensure high employee productivity and job satisfaction. At the same time, you will be better positioned to know when not to assign a project or task to an individual for whom it would be too much of a stretch.

A significant part of technical job satisfaction comes from the feeling of being challenged. Objective understanding of existing skills is key to knowing just how much challenge a particular assignment would create. When the timing is not right to provide an employee with the challenge they feel they are up for, the results of this process will help you talk with an employee about that and give you the language to do so. At times, the learning curve can be too great for the timeframe or the cost factors involved.

The mechanisms for achieving job satisfaction then become assigning appropriate challenges and support resources so neither you nor the individual are frustrated, and creating the right development plan to make an individual stronger in their role and better directed in their career. The Baseline Skills Assessment gives you the tools to make this work.

It is essential to understand if abilities and interests are aligned with roles and needs. Closely aligning your staff's individual objectives with the organization's goals and needs leads to a more productive and healthier employment relationship.

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Relevant Case Studies

Case Study 1: Integrating an Acquisition

Case Study 2: Enterprise Distributed Desktop Support


Related Documents

The Case for Staff Assessments (PDF)

Baseline Skills Assessment Datasheet (PDF)

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