Are Your Company Needs Aligned with Employee Skills and Passions?

Have you ever worked in a company where it seemed like everything was aligned and teamwork was at its best? We often hear of sports teams where the talent may not always be at the top of the scale, but everyone knew their jobs and performed them perfectly. Those are the championship teams that align skills with what the team needs to execute a strategy. In business, highly engaged employees typically are doing the work that suits who they are, and have leadership that supports them, resulting in cultural alignment.

Enjoy Your Work and Perform Better

When we do work which aligns with our innate wiring, we are much more likely to be successful and receive positive feedback about our work. That results in an upward spiral of enjoyment of our work and positive comments about our work resulting in increased levels of job performance. Conversely, when we try to perform work that does not align with our interests and core behaviors, we will never be great at it, even though we can do it. We have to manufacture energy to do work that does not suit us, instead of gaining energy from it as we do with work that fits who we are. This is one of the theories, “Enjoyment Performance Theory,” on which the Harrison Assessment is based.

Aligning Employee Skills with Company Needs

Many of my clients need assistance deciding between top candidates for which they are hiring and promoting into key positions in their organizations. I recommend using the Harrison Assessment prior to making these personnel decisions to look for culture fit with respect to individual candidates, employees, and teams within an organization. The Harrison Assessment not only provides countless data points regarding fit for specific positions and a person’s ability to support an organization’s culture, it also provides huge insight around how people normally act and their behavior under stress. Do they implode or explode? Are their behaviors predictable and consistent or not?

The Harrison Assessment helps with the selection of the right candidate for open positions, tracks and measures employee engagement, and indicates the best fit for succession planning for specific roles. In short, the Harrison Assessment provides employers with huge amounts of insight around behaviors and preferences of employees and candidates for employment, going way beyond most other assessments available today.

Need Help Aligning Employee Talents with Corporate Goals? 

Our Cultural Alignment services and Harrison Assessments can help you improve employee engagement and make better hiring decisions that support your culture-building strategy. Contact us to learn more about utilizing assessments in recruiting and aligning your team with what they do best.