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I recently came across a great site, aptly named Finding Potential, that offers a bunch of free, high quality assessment tools. These tools provide a very useful solution for companies of all sizes and are focused in three areas:
Personality Assessment – This is a simple personality questionnaire baed on self-assessment by individuals. It is ideally used as a predictive tool to support the hiring process. In order for this to be most effective you should start by benchmarking your ideal candidate profile based on the key performance criteria for each role and/or your most successful people who are currently in that role. I would also advise that you never rely on a personality assessment when hiring but rather, use the results in conjunction with behavioural based interviewing (BBI).
360 Assessment – This is a professional 360 Assessment Tool that enables the prioritzation of competencies by both the individual and their manager followed by 131 questions to explore those competencies from a variety of respondents including; the individual, their manager, their peers, their direct reports and other relevant stakeholders. It is less cumbersome than many commercial 360 tools while offering an intuitive admin area and comprehensive reporting. The system also automates email invitations and reminders.
Engagement Questionnaire – How engaged are your people? While many companies run an annual employee engagement survey, it is often not particularly helpful to individual leaders and managers. This engagement questionnaire enables leaders and managers to run a localized survey of their entire team or various individuals within a team.
There are no catches in the Finding Potential service. It is run by a UK based consultancy firm called Talent Drain. The tools are completely free to use and of course, require registration (one per company). The only time a charge might be incurred is if you request customization of the tools or want to access any of their premium reports. However, the off-the-shelf solution and standard reports are completely adequate for most purposes.
All in all, these tools offer outstanding value and are very useful in support of leaders or HR professionals who are taking a proactive approach to talent management.
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The 360 assessment seems like a brilliant idea…any more information on the same?
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The 360 looks really cool. Awesome that its free.
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I believe that the Personality Assessment is the most effective among the three tools you mentioned. Self assessments of individuals is very important.
I’m sure the tools are all good but you still need to introduce the human element. Ultimately it’s all about getting a “feel” for who really has potential.
Absolutely Jim, tools are just a supporting element. They provide a useful guide and introduce an element of objectivity to the talent management process.
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Thanks for sharing this information. Finding Potential sure has some great assessment tools. I went through personality assessment myself and it’s great.
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I’m glad to stop by on your blog and learn from this kind of information, thanks for sharing all of this and tool…
Finding potential is the same as seeking for greatness, well, everyone’s wanted to have a security in every single things and its great…
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Potential is a common tool that we have foremost, this is the essential things that we have and we need to workout from it in order to attain it effectively…
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Thank you. Knowing who can make a good leader is a very important skill to have.
This can surely help a lot in leadership development training programs!
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Thanks for sharing these. I’m always on the lookout for free web resources that truly add value, and this is wonderful – particularly the personality questionnaires.
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For me, potential is a factor that most of us want it too… This make us well impress with the huge satisfaction it provide… Finding potential must take time to consider with…
We can developed our potential if we are able to do thing effective, all of us were blessed with this quality but on the other hand, not all can make it worthy…
Don’t you think that relying on a questionnaire or computer algorithm is somewhat ironic when a quality of a good leader is to be able to get those reads on people and develop those relationships with their team… I don’t have a boss, but if I did I’d be appalled if they needed a questionnaire to know how I felt!
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Being a leader is a responsibility and pride. A good leader must always be strong and unshakable in the a principled. And he should be able to lead and encourage his subordinates to carry out their duties properly.
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That’s a fair point and in an ideal world I agree with you. However, many people have to lead or manage who are not naturally talented as leaders. In this instance, feedback can help them grow, learn and develop. I would also add that all of us have blind spots and receiving feedback helps us to reduce those blind spots. People do not always find it easy to give this feedback face to face.
These are great tools to help assess the employees….really helpful.
This is useful for those who are going to interviews and want to understand how these tests work, it’s a bit unnerving when you are asked quite ambiguous questions that seem unrelated to the job at hand. Study these and figure out what your potential employer is looking for!
Thanks for such a benignant share . The 360 assessment sounds quite gripping . All the tools mentioned by you can indeed make a vital difference however I believe that Personality Assessment is the most effective among the three tools .Would like to add that we all have grey areas in personalities which can indeed be worked on if we are open to feedbacks . Nice share.
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I’m going to have to look at the Finding Potential site soon so I can see how it can help me and my business. Thanks for sharing this.
This is a great post. The tools mentioned in the post for assessing the potential of the workforce can work to enhance the productivity of a company. the tools are simply awesome. But the sole aim of using all these tools should be an effort on the part of the individual to ameliorate his grey areas and thus increase his potential.
These are great tools for personality assessment and are being frequently used. Thank for sharing these useful info.
Hmm. Had never heard of them. Thanks for the recommendation. Gonna explore them a bit more!
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Thanks so much for this wonderful website as well as this post. This post is the kind of thing that keeps me on track through. I’ve been looking around for this site after I heard about them from a buddy and was thrilled. Thanks a bunch
I’m sure a lot of your readers will benefit from this resource you provided. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing this useful reference. More power!
This is a great post, but three is the importance of the the human element. Finding the potential is an art, be creative and focused.
Engagement Questionnaire and Personality Assessment i think are best tools that every company should use for assessment. I am planning to give try to these tools let me see how it work for me
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I’m going to have to look at the Finding Potential site soon so I can see how it can help me and my business. Thanks for sharing this.
360 assessment has become a powerful tool now to evaluate the competencies. All these tools are effective in their own way. Thanks for the share.
Thank you sharing this! The 360 assessment is clearly going to catch on, take off and really reinvent how potential is identified within individuals across the globe!
I am close to our HR and she really admits that it is not easy to find potential people for the position. Tools can be helpful but sometimes it takes really knowing the people to know his/her true identity.
Nice blog given by you ,its happy to read this.