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1. The Most Common Workplace Assessments
— and Making Them Useful
“You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis
and see how far you have gone and what you
still need to work on.”
Sunday Adelaja

2. Thought were done with tests long
ago? Think again. Workplace
assessments may offer just the
answers you need.

3. Workplace assessments, when designed
intentionally with defined goals, can be
useful tools for employees and
employers.

4. Assessment Purposes

5. Why workplace assessments? Consider:
• Recruiting
• Matching people to the right roles and
responsibilities
• Identifying training and development
opportunities
• Aiding succession planning
• Motivating employees
• Improving teamwork
• Enhancing leadership development

6. Common Workplace
Assessments

7. Competence assessments evaluate skill and
knowledge such as:
• Job knowledge — an accountant might be
quizzed on accounting principles
• Cognitive ability — to gauge logical, verbal,
and numerical reasoning
• Skills assessment — measuring skill level in
say typing speed, computer literacy, writing,
data checking
• Physical ability — for professions that
require strength and stamina

8. Behavioral assessments evaluate personality traits
and soft skills. Examples of these types are:
• The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• The Hogan Personality Inventory
• DiSC Behavior Inventory
• The IPIP-NEO
• The Kolbe Index
• Questionnaires that focus on integrity,
motivation, and emotional integrity.
Each of these assessments gauges slightly different
personality traits across the spectrum including, but
not limited to, reliability, compliance, and
extraversion.

9. The Great Debate

10. • HR experts argue the respective value of
each assessment type. As digitization
changes the world of work at a rapid rate,
some in the field argue that behavioral
testing is more predictive of future success.
• After all, when you can’t predict what skills
will be needed for jobs in a decade, how
can you make decisions based on
someone’s skill level?
• No matter the type of assessment you
support, you’re still going to want to know
how to make it useful.

11. Making the Most of
Workplace Assessments

12. To make these assessments worthwhile,
consider the following:
• Those working with the assessment results
must work to review the data objectively
• Be aware that assessments reflect “the ideal
average” and can lead to pigeon-holing
participants
• Confirmation bias can be a problem in which
the results are seen through a particular lens
to confirm the evaluator’s preconceptions
• Tests can be biased against age, gender,
race — you must be conscious of an
assessment’s possible discriminatory nature

13. Final Thoughts

14. Used well, workplace assessments can help a business hire
the right people, motivate employees, reduce turnover,
improve training and development offerings, educate
managers, and identify the best people for promotion.

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