Using Psychometrics to Develop your Workforce
As touched upon in the previous blog, psychometric testing can be used to develop your existing workforce as well as in the recruitment process.
An international HR survey, including 2,776 respondents from 37 different countries found that Irish, Malaysian, Swedish and Dutch companies tend to use psychometric testing for developing their own workforce more than organisations in other countries. But why and how exactly are they doing this and what are the benefits of it?
The How and Why
The purpose of developing your staff is to improve an individual and in turn increases the competencies found in your team. Many of these areas are identifiable through psychometric testing, such as: Creativity, stress management, planning, leadership, team working and planning. All traits that are often coached in business.
Using psychometrics as a blanket test across your existing staff can assist you in learning what makes them tick. Are they a highly motivated person? Are they introverted or extroverted? Ambitious? This allows team leaders to create a clearer career path for their team having identified which traits could use development to improve their job performance.
Developing your staff this way can also help to maintain, or even evolve, a company culture. This can be put in place as early as the recruitment stage. Assessments deployed during the screening process can be used to put together a training programme that will best suit the candidate’s strengths, whilst building upon a weakness.
Essentially, the development process must begin with psychometric testing to gauge the level of a candidate’s trait, such as creativity. However, the initial test does not only help by showing the candidate’s traits but may give some indication as to how they react to training and how to get the best out of them in a training situation. Traits such as motivation and conscientiousness have been found to be key attributes that directly correlate to the success of training programmes.
Improving Your Training
Once a training session has taken place it is important to evaluate not only the employee receiving the training, but also the training programme itself. This allows both the person giving the training and the employee undertaking the training to benefit and improve. Therefore, it is essential that an open dialogue is maintained once the training has been completed; with the trainee giving honest feedback about the training programme and the trainer giving feedback about the trainees results.
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