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Hiring and Employee Development Tools – What Tests?

Sam Black Consulting uses 8 key assessment tools to help clients build a reliable and productive employee population. All of the following are delivered and administered over the Internet for ease of use and timely reporting. Please email me sam@samblack.com for a free sample report of any of the following asessments.  Please specify which version of the CSP.

The Step One SurveyII® - Is a pre-employment screening tool for assessing the attitudes of job candidates regarding Reliability, Integrity, Work Ethic and Substance Abuse. This is the solution for employers who hire too many people who are dishonest, use drugs, are late or are "no-shows" and whose work effort is substandard. 20 minutes. Pre-hire only.

The Profile XT- A "Total Person" assessment that has a myriad of uses. It measures the job-related qualities that make a person productive - Thinking and Reasoning Style, Behavioral Traits, and Occupational Interests. There is also a version - PXT Sales - which provides all the analysis for evaluating a sales candidate versus general verbiage. 

The Profile XT is used for placement, promotion, self-improvement, coaching, succession planning, and job description development. It is convenient and easy to use on the Internet - no administrator or proctoring is required. 45 min - 1 hour. Prehire and current employees.  Placement Report, Individual Report and Coaching Report

The Profile Sales Indicator- A tool for selecting, managing, and training salespeople. It measures five key qualities of successful salespeople - Competitiveness, Self Reliance, Persistence, Energy and Sales Drive - and predicts performance in seven critical sales behaviors. Using the Profiles Sales Indicator to build and develop a sales organization can result in record-breaking productivity, retention of top performers, and exceptional profitability. 20 minutes Prehire and current employees.  Manager Report and Individual Report

The Customer Service Profile - A tool for selecting, managing, and training Customer Service employees.  This instrument is now customized for four different industries - Financial Services, Retail, HealthCare and Hospitality. . It measures basic numerical and language ability, the seven key qualities of successful CSRs - Trust, Tact, , Empathy, Conformity, Focus, and Flexibility. A unique feature of this assessment if the Company Service Perspective, a company customized report on the degree of alignment between the individual’s perspective on providing service to the customer and that expressed by the company.

. 30 minutes Prehire and current employees. Placement Report, Individual Report and Coaching Report

Workforce Compatibility- A tool for helping a manager and employee identify why they are not getting along or working well together and concrete suggestions for how each can adapt to the other's style. It measures seven key areas of behavior and, for the Manager Report, presents them in a graph comparision with the coaching recommendations- Self - Assurance, Self-Reliance, Conformity, Optimism, Decisiveness, Objectivity and Approach to Learning. The employee report is verbiage only . 45 minutes Current employees.  Manager Report and Employee Report

The Profile Performance Indicator - Measures five key personality factors and their impact on seven critically important aspects of success in business- Productivity, Quality of Work, Initiative, Team Work, Problem Solving, Response to Stress and Conflict, Work Motivation. The report helps you understand how an individual is effectively understood, motivated, and managed. 20 minutes Prehire and current employees.  Management Report and Individual Report

The Profile Team Analysis - Makes team building both challenging and rewarding. Effective teams achieve results far beyond what individuals could accomplish on their own. But team building is far more than putting a group of people together and hoping for the best. This system reports the attributes of each team member, shows the team's strengths and alerts the team leader to potential problems. 20 minutes Current employees.  Team Report

The Checkpoint 360- A powerful professional development tool that positively impacts an individual's growth and career, and an organization's success. For managers, supervisors, and others in leadership positions, it can facilitate peak performance that generates improved productivity. One of the easiest 360 instruments to use. CheckPoint quantifies a participant in 8 core competencies- Communication, Leadership, Adaptability, Relationships, Task Management, Production, Development of Others, and Personal Development, verifies the results from a variety of perspectives, and identifies ways to enhance skills. Ideal for annual review and promotion considerations. Current employees.

Partial List of Clients:

• Action Lists St. Louis
• AMCON – The Eye Care Center St. Louis
• Application Design Group St. Louis
• Associate Insurance Dallas
• Auto Glass Plus Dallas
• Brown, Smith, Wallace St. Louis
• Build A Bear Workshop St. Louis
• Business Training Library St. Louis
• Chemir Polytech St. Louis
• Christus St. Catherine Center Houston
• CIT Minneapolis
• Citibank - Florida Miami
• Colt Safety St. Louis
• Comp Data Survey Kansas City
• Datamarq St. Louis
• Diabetic-Shoppe Memphis
• Direct Impact St. Louis
• Gardner Realty St. Louis
• General American Insurance (Met Life) St. Louis
• Gorman & Gorman St. Louis
• Graphic Connections St. Louis
• Great American Insurance St. Louis
• Hunter Engineering St. Louis
• Liguori Publications St. Louis
• Linder Funds St. Louis
• Marcone Applicance Parts St. Louis
• Marketing Direct St. Louis
• MediEquip St. Louis
• Michigan National Bank Detroit
• Motors Insurance Corp (GM) Detroit
• Nikco Sports St. Louis
• Renard Paper St. Louis
• Rhodes Realty St. Louis
• Royal Papers St. Louis
• Rubicon, Inc. St. Louis
• Sappington Farmers Market St. Louis
• Sheraton Four Points St. Louis
• South Plains Mortgage Midland, TX
• Telephone Doctor St. Louis
• Top Hat Help Desk North Dakota
• Weatherline St. Louis

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