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Why Take Online Assessments?

Can you even imagine giving your doctor permission to operate on you without first reviewing MRI images? Of course you wouldn’t!

Similarly, smart businesspeople leverage online assessments to make decisions about hiring, managing, promoting and leading others. You can think of assessments as “MRI tests” to reveal someone’s innermost values, personality tendencies, skill sets, etc…

Online assessments provide an invaluable tool to enhance the intellectual capital within your company; whether it’s leveraging your investment into existing human resources or increasing probabilities for success in new investments in human resources. Assessments can measure a variety of criteria: intellectual ability, achievement motivation, skill proficiency, work styles, personality characteristics, and personal values. Assessments are used to help determine training needs, career counseling and personal development.

Assessments are a first step towards personal awareness. We provide assessments that give individuals an opportunity to gain new insights about themselves, with the goals of self improvement, personality enrichment and enhancement of their relationships with others.

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Online Assessments

The On-Line Values Assessment

Description: This Values Index will help you understand your motivators and drivers and how to maximize your performance by achieving better alignment and passion for what you do. The Online Values Assessment is a combination of the research of Dr. Eduard Spranger and Gordon Allport into what drives and motivates an individual. The seven dimensions of values discovered between these two researchers help understand the reasons that drive an individual to utilize their talents in the unique way they do.

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The Time Management Effectiveness Profile

Description: If your bank credited your personal account with $480.00 every morning and then cancelled whatever part of the amount that you failed to use by 5:00 or 6:00 P.M., what would you do? Draw out every dollar and cent, of course! Well, Time is like that bank: Every morning, we are each credited with 480 minutes in an eight hour work day, and 1,440 minutes in a 24-hour period. Every night, or “time bank” writes off as lost whatever we have failed to invest in a good purpose. It carries no balance forward and allows no overdrafts. Each new day, it opens a new account with us, and each night it burns the record for the day.

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The Team Building Effectiveness Profile

Description: Success in any organization today rests heavily upon how well you perform as a team. Most people will accept that a champion team will beat a team of individual champions-but how do you create a champion team?
 

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The Social Styles 360 Assessment

Description: Have you ever wondered why you hit it off with some people immediately, while with others it's like oil and water? That's because there are four primary behavioral styles, each with a very distinct and predictable pattern of observable behavior. Once you understand these patterns, you have the key to unlock your ability to get along with nearly anyone.

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The Sales Effectiveness Profile (SEP)

Description: In today’s increasingly competitive world, an effective salesperson (no matter what they might be trying to sell) needs a wide variety of skills and competencies in order to be successful.

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The Platinum Rule®

Description: Mastering one important skill-adaptive communications-will help you become a charismatic, effective leader that others want to follow, a top-producing sales professional and/or improve all your personal relationships!

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The Platinum Rule – Leadership

Description: Mastering one important skill-adaptive communications-will help you become a charismatic, effective leader that others want to follow.

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The Platinum Rule – Sales

Description: Mastering one important skill-adaptive communications-will help you become the type of sales professional that customers love to buy from!

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The DISCstyle™ Online Report

Description: An indisputable fact is that people prefer to interact with people they like. The ability to create rapport with people is a fundamental skill in sales, management, personal relationships, and everyday life. The goal of the DISCstyles is to help you create personal chemistry and productive relationships. You do not have to change your personality; you simply have to understand what drives people and recognize your options for effectively dealing with them. DISCstyles teaches you powerful life skills that will serve you well in all your relationships: business, social and family.

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The DISCstyles™ Leadership Report

Description: An indisputable fact is that people prefer to work for people they like and respect. The ability to create and maintain rapport with people is a fundamental skill in leadership and everyday life. The goal of DISCstyles Leadership is to help you create personal chemistry and productive relationships. You do not have to change your personality; you simply have to understand what drives people and recognize your options for effectively leading them. DISCstyles Leadership teaches you powerful skills that will help you become an effective leader.

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The DISCstyles™ Sales Report

Description: Has your sales approach ever succeeded with one person, then “bombed out” with the very next prospect? We all have experienced this and shrugged it off thinking, “That’s just the way it is.” However, things do not have to be that way. Nearly every sales interaction with each prospect can be a success… if you know how to adapt to different buying styles! If you are interested in improving your sales results-immediately-we recommend that you start by taking the DISCsales online assessment first, so you can practice the proven techniques described within the report.

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The DISCstyles 360 Report

Description: An indisputable fact is that people prefer to interact with people they like. The ability to create rapport with people is a fundamental skill in sales, management, personal relationships, and everyday life. The goal of the DISC360 is to help you create personal chemistry and productive relationships. You do not have to change your personality; you simply have to understand what drives people and recognize your options for effectively dealing with them.

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The Negotiating Styles Profile (NSI)

Description: Like communication or listening skills, negotiating skills are not a special skill to be produced on rare occasions where the circumstances are appropriate. We use negotiation skills almost every day of our lives, and in many different ways.

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The Time Management Effectiveness Profile

Description: If your bank credited your personal account with $480.00 every morning and then canceled whatever part of the amount that you failed to use by 5:00 or 6:00 P.M., what would you do? Draw out every dollar and cent, of course! Well, Time is like that bank: Every morning, we are each credited with 480 minutes in an eight hour work day, and 1,440 minutes in a 24-hour period. Every night, or “time bank” writes off as lost whatever we have failed to invest in a good purpose. It carries no balance forward and allows no overdrafts. Each new day, it opens a new account with us, and each night it burns the record for the day.

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The Leadership360 Assessment

Description:  Capitalize on the opportunity to see yourself as others see you, and use the insights as a springboard for your leadership growth and development! Dynamic, effective leaders are constantly honing their skills and investing in their own personal development. The Leadership360 Assessment is based on eight leadership abilities that are demonstrated by outstanding leaders.

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The Leadership Effectiveness Profile (LEP)

Description: Leadership excellence is the subject of a great many books and journal articles, but there is no widespread agreement on what an individual needs to be or do in order to succeed in this area. Fortunately, several themes emerge in the published work of some of the best thinkers on the subject of Leadership Excellence. Out of the hundreds or thousands of human behaviors, there are only a handful that can be directly tied to outstanding leadership.

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The Emotional Intelligence Style Profile (EINT)

Description: This Emotional Intelligence Style Profile helps you understand the way you apply your emotional intelligence in terms of style, preferences, and behavior. It can help you determine how appropriately and effectively you apply your knowledge and feelings in a given situation and it is this understanding that forms the basis on which you can make adjustments in order to be more effective in the future; personally as well as professionally.

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Customer Service Skills Profile

Description: There’s truth to the old adage that it costs ten times more to replace a customer than to keep one! Improving customer service skills is easily one of the most profitable investments any business can make. Most customers are willing to pay a premium to have their basic needs met in a timely and efficient manner, and will be pleasantly surprised (and grateful) if they are treated with a little dignity and respect in the bargain. This isn't asking for much, but consistent, responsive, and respectful treatment is surprisingly hard to come by.

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The Communication Effectiveness Profile (COMEP)

Description: Most of us take the art of Communication for granted. And why shouldn’t we? After all, we take part in dozens of conversations each and every day. It ought to be something we’re relatively good at! The truth is that most of us are not as good at two-way communication as we think we are.

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The Coaching Effectiveness Profile (COAEP)

Description: Coaching is an important part of any effort to bring out the best in an individual. In fact, it is a key skill that contributes to the development of an organization’s most valuable asset… its people. Formalized coaching might be relatively new in some commercial or business organizations, but it’s been around for a long time. Top athletes have personal coaches to help them compete to win. Opera singers, actors and public speakers hire people to coach them.

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Change Management Effectiveness Profile

Description: The only constant in today’s business environment is… change. How you handle change will determine if you become a victim or the victor! When you hone your “change agent” skills, you are seen as a visionary leader that others are compelled to follow. You become an adaptive, charismatic sales professional that buyers prefer to choose. You can rise to the top of any chosen profession; earning the respect of clients and colleagues alike.

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