THE VALUE OF ASSESSMENTS
One of the best things you can do to facilitate your own success in life and business is to understand your own behavior and the motivation behind that behavior. This will provide you with a powerful tool to increase your self-awareness, understanding and ability to utilize all the career and business success opportunities open to you and your pathway to choices around these opportunities.
Recognizing WHAT you do and HOW you do it is the first step to accessing these opportunities.
Discovering WHY you do what you do comes next.
Let’s begin by exploring the value of examining your Strengths and the driving force for your actions…
YOUR STRENGTHS…
For example, “strengths” are thought to be those behavioral preferences that come easily and naturally to you; those preferences that are usually energizing in some way. Often we hear that we should “Play to our strengths” and that individuals who do that are happier, more confident and have higher levels of energy and vitality. Recent research has also shown that when you use your strengths, you are likely to perform better at work and be more effective at developing yourself and growing as an individual.
When used together, with coaching, assessment tools provide people with a clear picture of their actions, their behaviors – and most important – why they do what they do; that is, the motivators behind what they do.
The knowledge gained from these assessments helps individuals take control of their lives. It assists them in understanding the decisions that they make, charting the life direction that they want and developing a deep appreciation of others and how they can work with them to achieve fulfillment and deep personal satisfaction in their careers and their lives.
So, the business case for looking at and working with your strengths is actually strongly based in scientific data.
These strengths can be measured and the more self-awareness you have about these strengths – those things that you enjoy and that come easily to you and those things that motivate you – the more likely you will be to meet with success.
While the DISC and other assessments address HOW we act, what remains unexamined is the WHY we act. That is, what is it that motivates you to take action? What is the source of your desire to become involved in certain activities—or to avoid them?
WHY do you behave in the manner you do?
Those answers lie deep within your unique set of personal interests, attitudes and motivational values. These powerful motivating forces largely affect why you behave as you do, and identifying them is important to understanding what makes you effective, satisfied and able to achieve personal and professional success.
AWARE Consulting Services uses the world’s leading resource for research-based, validated assessment and coaching tools which enable individuals and organizations to effectively fulfill their human potential.
Hundreds of Fortune 500 companies and individuals alike use these assessment tools to uncover specific aspects of an individual’s true self to maximize their effectiveness in business and in life.
These assessments are designed to reveal results in a clear, applicable way so it can be used to:
•Better understand yourself and others
•Create effective communication and increased understanding
•Build an efficient work environment
•Allow you to work to your strengths and understand the how and why of the behavior and preferences of yourself and others.
Whether you’re attempting to understand how to influence others or improve your own success level; without the right tools, it’s next to impossible to get a clear, unbiased view. To accurately determine those relevant, behind the scene or hidden “factors” influencing your behavior or the motivation behind those behaviors, you must utilize the RIGHT professional instruments.
Using AWARE Consulting, our highly acclaimed assessment tools, and the Universal DISC language, we work with accurate and professionally validated psychometric tests that measure those “behind the scenes” characteristics impacting and influencing you, your attitude, your behavior and your career each and every day.
For example, how would YOU determine someone’s attitude?
•You could ask the person a direct question “What is your attitude or what motivates you” and you would get one answer.
•You could observe the persons behavior – what actions they took and how often – and you would get another answer.
•Or you can gather information and observations about the person from other people, who observe, work or live with that person and you would get another answer.
AND you are likely to receive three completely different answers!
Regardless of how objective people attempt to be, these methods WILL all be affected by personal bias and the viewer’s perspective.
That is how Assessments are different!
By using a professional, highly validated test or assessment, you remove the personal bias and you are able to make a more objective and impartial, accurate assessment.
Objectivity is the key.
A good, validated, psychometric test provides fair and accurate results every time it’s given. Because these assessments are simple and convenient to take, they also provide easy access to valuable information; information you can obtain no other way!
These types of assessments demonstrate and determine the best and most efficient way to identify your current skills and performance levels, uncover values and interests that are fundamental to overall career and job satisfaction and develop an effective strategy to prepare you for success; whether inside your organization, your current business environment or a new, entrepreneurial venture.
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