Thomas International provides people assessment tools to help businesses improve employee performance. Their assessments provide insight into employees' potential, motivations, strengths, and limitations. They work with over 32,000 companies worldwide, including 27,000 small- and medium-sized enterprises, to transform performance through assessments that are accurate, straightforward, quick, and provide rapid results.

1. A presentation to
all my LinkedIn colleagues
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2. We provide people assessments
which empower businesses
to transform and improve the
performance of their employees
Our assessments will provide insight on your people potential,
what motivates them, their core strengths and limitations.
Add a high level of certainty to all of your people decisions.
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3. 30 60 56
YEARS COUNTRIES LANGUAGES
At the forefront of Presence in Assessments available
assessment innovation 60 countries in 56 languages
for 30 years
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4. 50 100 97
CONSULTANTS STAFF PERCENT
50 locally based 100 staff in the UK: 97% of clients
consultants in the UK consultants, trainers, say they would
occupational psychologists, recommend us
support staff
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5. 250000 32000
USERS COMPANIES
250,000 trained Thomas users We work with 32,000 companies
worldwide worldwide
1.5 MILLION
ASSESSMENTS
Over 1.5 million assessments completed every year
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6. We work with over 32,000 companies
70% of the companies we work with are SMEs
27,000 SMEs 5,000 large companies
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7. What’s different about Thomas?
You’ll get immediate impact You don’t need to be an expert
because our assessments are
Accurate Our client service
teams will train you,
Straightforward to understand advise you and provide
practical assistance
Quick to use
We have more locally
based consultants than
With rapid results any other provider
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8. It is not the strongest of the
species who survive, nor the
most intelligent, but the ones
most adaptive to change
On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin
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9. We’ll help you to...
Our assessments will empower
you to transform the performance
of your teams and your individuals
– and deliver an immediate impact
on your organisation.
Spanning the entire employee
lifecycle, from recruiting and
retaining staff, to developing and
managing performance, our
assessments will give you a high
level of certainty in all of your
people decisions.
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10. Why are successful executives
successful? They seek more
feedback on what they need to do
to improve and perform better
Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger
Human Resource Management
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11. The right hiring decision can
have a huge impact on the
performance of your team,
function or line of business.
Get it wrong and you’re looking
at a cost of up to 2.5 times the
individual’s salary. And the
disruption to your business and
your teams can be
considerable.
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12. Our assessments
will help you:
Identify the candidates
with an ideal fit
Speed up your
recruitment process
Make your selection
decisions clearer
Hire people who will
stay with your company
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13. With one in four employees
stating they intend to leave
their employer in the next
12 months*, retaining staff is
critical to delivering success
in any organisation.
Get it right and you’re
delivering consistently on your
business targets with a happy,
loyal workforce. Get it wrong
and you’re investing cash in
new recruits, and dealing with
disruption to the business.
*Source: PWC, Managing people in a changing world, key trends in human capital – a global perspective 2010
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14. Our assessments
will help you:
Motivate your people
Ensure morale is high
Create engagement
Optimise performance
Reduce attrition
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15. Employers say they need
to focus on leadership and
front-line people
management in order to
meet their business
objectives over the next two
years.*
But with training budgets under
more pressure than ever, how do
you make sure your learning and
development investment counts?
*Source: CIPD Learning and Talent Development, annual survey report 2010
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16. Our assessments
will help you:
Identify each individual’s
exact areas for development
Give your training
more impact
Be a more effective
people manager
Transform the performance
of your teams and individuals
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17. On average, 80% of
management time is spent
on poor performers*. But
with so little attention
directed at top and good
performers, how do you
ensure you’re investing the
right amount of effort to
get maximum results?
*Source: Tracey Jones, Head of Training, Thomas International
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18. Our assessments
will help you:
Very quickly get an in-depth
understanding of your people
Pinpoint why your people
do – and don’t – perform well
Manage your people
performance effectively
Free you up to focus your
time on adding real value to
the business
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19. We all spend far too much time
trying to remedy our weaknesses,
rather than building on our
strengths. Therefore knowing
one’s weaknesses = strength
Professor Howard Gardner
Harvard University
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20. Our process
Our assessments work together
to give you a full insight into what
makes people successful
Core strengths
Motivation
Potential
Communication &
relationships
Skills & competencies
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21. We hire people for their technical
skills, however we fire them for
their behavioural faults
Financial Times
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22. In just 8 minutes PPA provides
an accurate insight into how
people behave at work. It will
answer questions such as:
What are this person’s
strengths and limitations?
How do they communicate?
Are they self-starters?
What motivates them?
How will they behave
under pressure?
Will this person ‘fit’
with my organisation?
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24. Identifying those with the most
potential to lead and who can learn
something differently requires
a unique measurement – one that
looks at learning agility
Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger
Human Resource Management
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25. GIA measures a person’s
mental horsepower and gives
you a prediction of their
potential to grasp a new role
or respond to training by
answering questions such as:
Can this person think on their feet?
How adaptable is this person to
change?
Can they cope with the mental
demands of the job?
Could this person be a high flyer?
Is this person a problem solver?
To what extent can we develop this
person using training?
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27. Experienced business leaders rank
so-called ‘emotional intelligence’
capabilities as critical to the success
of today's leaders
San Francisco Business Times
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28. TEIQue tells you how well your
people understand their
emotions, react to pressure, and
manage relationships. It will
answer questions such as:
How aware is this person of their
strengths and limitations?
Do they modify their behaviour?
How do they react to pressure?
Can this person control their
impulses when under stress?
Do they excel at developing
relationships?
How self-motivated and adaptable
is this person?
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30. Other Thomas services
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31. VALUES & LOCAL WORKING
CULTURE CONSULTANTS STRENGTHS
We work within Work with real people; Examine and identify
clients’ values and over 50 local consultants working strengths
culture
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32. UNDERSTAND HR
YOUR BUSINESS METRICS
Consultants who understand Help clients to
your business and its objectives interpret and
improve HR
metrics
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33. After introducing Thomas Job
and PPA into our recruitment
process we immediately saw a
better calibre of candidate at Bob Taylor
interview and our churn rate Managing Director
reduced by 50%.
As a result of improved recruitment,
retention and management
practices, we have enjoyed good
company growth and stability. We
are regarded as a good company to
work with and for, and are well
recognised within our industry.
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34. Using Thomas GIA has made a real
difference to the quality of candidate
we recruit. At final interview we are
seeing candidates who have better Sarah Benson
communication skills, understand UK National Resourcing
Team
more quickly and are keen to learn.
Our aim is to recruit candidates who
perform optimally within our
organisation and thus help drive
company profitability. Using GIA has
made a significant contribution to
that goal.
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35. The merger enabled us to
double our size, integration
and cultural transition were
the key words. Ed Moss
CEO
We wanted our people to make a
positive contribution to the business
and to do this we needed to bring out
the best in them and maximise their
potential. Thomas’ assessments
helped all staff in the Group to
understand the way they and their
team members worked, increased
their self-esteem and improved their
confidence.
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36. Emotional intelligence makes
the difference between good
and great leaders.
Linda Watson
Senior Consultant
The key to great leadership is working
with and through people rather than
adopting a directive, finger pointing
style. I use Thomas’ assessments to
get a full picture of the individual’s
work based behavioural preferences
and emotional intelligence. This helps
pinpoint the areas that need attention,
gives the best possible service to our
clients and produces results quickly.
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37. The profiles are invaluable in
supporting the initial coaching
diagnostics and providing after
coaching ‘proof’ that clients have Joe McGrath
actually changed. Management &
Technical Skills
Development
Using Thomas' profiling as an opener to a Manager
coaching intervention provides us many
benefits largely due to the profile accuracy
being around 95%. The benefits include
insights for both client and coach on coaching
topics as well as helping to develop the client’s
confidence in the coaching itself. The profiles
are invaluable in supporting the initial coaching
diagnostics and providing after coaching
"proof" that clients have actually changed.
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38. When we introduced Thomas
profiling in 2005 our staff turnover
was 29%, in 2008 it was 7% and we
feel this is a clear indication of the Rupert Whitehouse
success of Thomas’ profiling tools. Senior Manager,
Customer Relations
FedEx Express Europe Inc,
Previously our recruitment success was, to Middle East, Indian
Subcontinent & Africa
put it mildly, hit and miss...more miss than
hit! Managers used to feel they were the best
interviewers in the world, however it wasn't
until we really understood what made the
candidate tick and understood their profiles
that we were able to make truly informed
decisions on whether candidates would be
suitable for FedEx. I will continue to
recommend Thomas to anyone.
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39. We use Thomas Profiling in many
areas of business. It gives us a
broader picture of potential new
team members, allowing us to Sue Davies
make better recruitment decisions. Head of Human Resources
We benefit by making more informed
decisions about candidate fit to our
business. We have also used Thomas
Profiling in coaching and personal
development and it has given us great
benefits in raising people's self-
awareness, which has improved our
managers' ability to lead teams.
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40. The Thomas tools help our people
to communicate more effectively
both with colleagues and clients…
Sally Chacatte
Partner
Working with Thomas makes our
Head of Human Resources
recruitment process more robust and
objective but the benefits go far
beyond that. The Thomas tools help
our people to communicate more
effectively both with colleagues and
clients to form an important part of our
development programmes.
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41. We have seen an improvement in
the speed and quality of our people’s
development.
Philip Youell
Chief Executive
We have used the Thomas Profiling to
assist us with the selection and
development of our senior people for
more than five years. In that time we have
seen an improvement in the speed and
quality of our people’s development.
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42. A very valuable product...
over the past year especially.
Thomas International PPA has Sarah Carter
Divisional Head
proved a very valuable product to
Austin Benn over the past year
especially, with proactive and
comprehensive advice and
guidance always at hand.
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43. Our experience using Thomas
Profiling is that they are vital tools for
supporting these processes.
The results are consistent… Chris Thorne
Commercial Director
Recruitment and staff development has always
been part art, part science. The instincts of the
interviewer or manager will always play a vital
part in decision making. Our experience using
Thomas Profiling is that they are vital tools for
supporting these processes. The results are
consistent and most often reassure us we have
assessed a candidate correctly. They help
equally with planned staff reviews and often
provide insight into issues that may otherwise
remain undiscovered and unresolved.
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