Strength-Based Assessment and Development Methods

OUR APPROACH

HPS offers our clients a unique strength-based approach to assessment and development. Our strength-based focus is fundamentally changing our clients' approach to performance management and yielding impressive results.

HPS helps our clients to identify (assessment) and more fully leverage the strengths (development) of leaders and leadership teams. This allows leaders to inspire the best from their people, ignite highest potential, and more fully leverage the strengths of employees, teams and the organization.
 
The truth is that traditional approaches to assessment and development are no longer the most effective pathway to improving human performance.

Traditional approaches incorporated some type of performance evaluation process, formal or informal, with the primary focus on weaknesses or, in the more politically correct, improvement opportunities. The manager or management team conducted the evaluation and tended to assume something like, "If we just round out his/her weaknesses, he/she will become a much better performer." Well intentioned? Yes. Inspiring the tapping into and best leveraging of the strengths of the individual? No.

In essence, the focus has been on the weaknesses and not on the strengths. Here is an example of why the traditional approach (i.e. focusing on and improving the weaknesses) is so seriously flawed. Our first experience and early messages about a need to improve our weaknesses likely occurred in the early school years. We all received As, Bs, Cs, etc. Which grades got the most attention when the report card went home? It was likely the Bs and Cs or areas needing improvement. However, new research has revealed that the greatest improvement occurs in the areas of our greatest strengths.

Researchers recently posed a series of questions to a very large sample group which included thousands of working professionals in the U.S. and U.K. One of the questions was, "At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?" The results were staggering: data revealed that less than 15% of respondents answered "Yes." In other words, over 85% of these professionals were not using their strengths at work the majority of the time. If they were not using their strengths, then what were they using?

The data further revealed that these individuals were not necessarily a poor fit or in positions for which they were not qualified. Rather, these individuals were simply not able to use or play fully to their strengths. If these individuals were able to use their strengths, then imagine the possibilities! Imagine the impact on productivity and business results.

Investment in a Strength-Based Organization Development Program is a savvy investment in the development of your human resources and in improving long-term business results.

HPS offers effective, reliable and validated strength-based assessment and development tools. We partner with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Insights Learning and Development, and a short list of others who meet our quality and reliability standards.

We look forward to helping you to identify and tap into the strengths of your people and to help elevate your people and organization from good to great.

YOUR RESULTS

Senior leaders who are more fully aware of, more fully leveraging, and playing to their strengths.

A senior leadership team that is more aware of and values each member’s unique strengths and more fully leverages and plays to each other’s strengths on a consistent basis.

Employees who are more fully aware, more fully leveraging and playing more to their strengths.

Employees who are inspired to perform at their best and take pride in their work, their team and their organization.

Teams that are more fully aware, more fully leveraging and playing more to their strengths.

An organization — and, importantly, culture — which values and harnesses the power of collective strengths and focuses these strengths on achieving business goals and objectives.

Customers who experience superior customer service and are retained for life.

A community which is attracted to and pursues career opportunities with your organization and thinks of your organization as an employer of choice.