The workplace has thankfully got away from the “Am I in trouble?” performance review to something a bit more proactive, productive, empathetic and goal focused.
With the aid of the Predictive Index behavioral assessment we’re helping our clients to engage their new employees by writing a self assessment on joining and thus improve their onboarding experience.
This is key, 78% of HR leaders surveyed in 2023 cited onboarding as an area in need of improvement.
Combine this with a Gallup survey that said that only 31% of employees were engaged this means that you can kill two birds with one stone.
No matter how self aware somebody is, articulating it is always challenging.
The Predictive Index behavioral assessment takes 6 minutes to do and provides 3 pages of commentary on what you just told it about yourself.
That information then allows the software to produce all kinds of onboarding help for us. For every candidate that we place, we provide the client with
• A personal development guide for the new employee
• A coaching guide for the new employee
• A management strategy guide for the hiring manager
And here’s the good news, it’s all provided proactively on joining to enrich that onboarding experience.
You never want any performance review to feel like a “gotcha”. Our approach provides a roadmap for both the new employee and the manager, it forms a contract that makes them both accountable to each other.
If you’re looking at putting a bum in a seat then this isn’t for you but if you’re looking at using workplace behavioral and personality assessments to foster development and self development and incorporate all of that into the employee’s lifecycle then we should talk
Start looking at it as recruiting for performance retention and growth rather than putting a fire out and just replacing headcount.
Writing a performance review for yourself starts with having the tools at your disposal to do the self analysis and that doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Your self analysis has more value in the context of the company and team that you’re in.
Gareth Callaway
PRESIDENT
