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Each survey is thoroughly researched and designed to fit a unique and vital organizational role.

A "role-specific" survey assures that the skills and development plan will be relevant to performance improvement. It increases validity, efficiency, and credibility for the participant and the raters.

The surveys follow a well-researched and easily understood learning model. The model provides focus and flow. Focus refers to understanding what needs to be developed first. Flow refers to understanding when the skill is most important.

Participants are quickly empowered and encouraged when they learn that excellence in the role requires mastery of the first four to six "dimensions" or competencies. Follow-up plans can be limited to three key skill-sets.

Each survey contains questions covering only those observable, role-related concepts that can be trained or otherwise developed. They specifically exclude personality traits, which are unlikely to change anyway.

People can respond and make improvements on their skills. Tests of personality don’t provide that opportunity.

We believe rater comments are an essential part of the lesson from feedback. When you ask role-specific, observable questions that are within the control of the participant to address, raters provide reasonable, actionable and role-specific suggestions.

This makes the whole feedback experience more meaningful and generally leads to more sincere efforts at executing a development program.

We provide a unique international database, accumulated since 1972, which includes over 150 million question scores. These scores are updated, averaged annually, and shown in the feedback reports, giving participants a benchmark comparison.

Ranking against norms help participants determine if their skills are competitive against the same role in other companies or within their own organization.