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  • Credentialed Professional Coach & Team Coach Practitioner (ICF, EMCC), Certified Learning & Development and HR Practitioner
  • TEDx speaker, live show host, e-learning and online courses contributing author, executive contributor on leadership topics
  • Ex Head of Learning & Development, over 15 years in corporate L&D executive level, top legal consulting firms
  • Team coaching and leadership coaching, workshops and learning programs on building and leading highly effective teams
  • Workplace Culture & Communication course designer and facilitator for York University and College Boreal in Toronto

Roxana Radulescu

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Today’s Agenda

  1. Why assessment tools
  2. Top 5 – what, why, when
  3. Assess business impact

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1. Why Assessment Tools?

  • What do you want to measure?
  • What is the purpose of using them?
  • Ask ‘So what?’

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People Decisions

  • Pre-hire�what we want them to bring
  • Hire�what we want them to do
  • Develop (including entrepreneurs)�how we help them grow
  • Promote / Move�what they can do next
  • Fire �where we don’t align anymore

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Why NOT assessment tools?

  • Not the only source for making people decisions
  • Factor in culture fit & culture add

?

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2. Top 5 – What, what for, when

Assessment Name

What it measures

Best use

Motivation Finder

Personal motivators

Individual

Belbin

Behaviour

Individual & Teams

MBTI

Personality types

Individual

Social motivation

Drivers

Individual

The Game-Changing Index

Business Impact & Energy

Individual & Teams

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So What?�Impact vs Personality

  • What do you need this information for?
  • How does it help your goal?

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So What?�Impact vs Personality

  • What do you need this information for?
  • How does it help your goal?

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Top 5 by business priority

Assessment Name

What it measures

Business phase

Business Impact & Energy

Pre-hire, hire, develop, promote, lateral move

Behaviour (in teams)

Develop, promote / lateral move

Personality types

Develop 1-1

Personal motivators

Develop 1-1

Personal drivers

Develop 1-1 and team

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�3. Assess Business Impact ��Example: �How do I choose / work with my co-founder for best results?

  • Be clear on what your best impact is
  • Be clear on what you want and need from your co-founder
  • Interview them, ask behavioural and situations questions
  • Align on ways of working!

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Example: �Recruiting Start-Up �Co-Founder Team

Co-Founder A

Co-Founder B

Pluses

  1. Drive to deliver high quality service
  2. Focus on market differentiator
  3. Open to new ways of doing and thinking

Minuses

  1. Almost no long-term planning
  2. Average energy for team’s ideas & contributions
  3. Low drive for high-stake conversations

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Example: �Team Impact

Pluses

  • Creative problem solvers
  • Drive for coming up with new products / services and implement right away
  • Average focus on quality, improvement or innovation

Minuses

  • No long-term strategy
  • Quantity over quality
  • Group think – no room for all team voices
  • Uncertain about the ‘why’ and priorities
  • Possible avoidance or mis-management of high stakes conversations and conflict

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Helpful Questions to Ask event

  • Add to cart custom event in Google Tag Manager

HOW ALIGNED ARE WE TO OUR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES?

WHAT NEEDS TO BE IN PLACE FOR THIS TEAM TO WORK MOST EFFECTIVELY?

WHAT WILL BE VALUED, HELD IN REGARD?

WHAT IS THE TEAM LIKELY TO PAY LEAST ATTENTION TO?

WHAT TENSIONS ARE LIKELY TO ARISE IN THIS TEAM?

ARE WE GETTING THE BEST OUT OF OUR PEOPLE?

WHAT DOES THIS TEAM NEED FROM ITS LEADER(S)?

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Even as a solopreneur or a team of 2!

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Get Your Complimentary

GC Index Individual Impact Assessment �& Strategy Session

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Code: ‘howaboutsomemarketing’

Valid by 8 February at 11.30 pm EST

It’s All Personal, Nothing is Just Business.

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Roxana @ All Personal

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