Psychometrics by Thomas

Personal Profile Analysis /PPA/ is the perfect tool for ensuring an adequate recruitment and selection process and determining your employees’ individual training and career development needs.

It provides information on an assessment taker’s fears, motivators, values and behavioural style using four main profile factors: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance.

Assessment: In just 8 minutes, PPA provides an accurate insight into how people behave at work, allowing you to gain greater certainty when recruiting and understand how to boost staff morale.

Detailed Profile: You are provided with an initial profile detailing a person’s strengths and limitations, their communication style, their value to the business, what motivates them, their basic fears and how they behave under pressure.

Diverse Reports: The Thomas PPA comes with over 18 reports, that you can use to match people to jobs, sift CVs, manage, coach and develop your people.

Job Profiling enables you to quickly and effectively profile the job you are recruiting for. It gives you a template for a job into which you place a candidate with the best fit in terms of PPA profile.

Job Profiling is designed to help you think of a job in a natural and intuitive way. It is unique in its capability to quickly and effectively profile the job you are recruiting for. Before you can recruit the right person to the right job you must understand not only the candidate’s profile but also that of the job itself. Just as PPA enables you to understand the behavioural characteristics of an individual, job profiling helps you identify the behavioural requirements of a job.

Objectivity: Delivered either via software, it provides an extremely objective view of the characteristics required for the role. Like the PPA, the results are plotted on a graph. You can then compare the PPA profile against that of the job profile to assess how well that person would ‘fit’ the role.

Goodness to Fit: To assist in analysing ‘fit’ Thomas has designed a guideline (‘Goodness of Fit’) that offers external, expert opinion on how good a fit there is. The guideline reports five levels of fit, enabling you to see on a scale of one to five how good a match the PPA is to the role you are recruiting for.

The Thomas Team Audit System allows an organization to identify the ideal team culture, assess an actual team culture and provide a gap analysis in terms of behavioural and role fit shortfall. It also assesses every team member against the team culture. Its unique strength is that the system gets to the root cause of team problems in hours rather than months.

Key benefits:

• Increases the performance levels of teams by matching them to the ideal culture needed.
• Dramatically reduces the cost of team building by identifying root cause team problems.
• Unique in that it takes hours rather than months to assess a team.
• Predicts a team’s reaction to change and allows organisations to plan change with confidence.
• Can be used at any level in an organisation.
• Removes subjective team assessments.

When to use:

• When teams are not performing
• When strategy calls for a cultural change
• If an organisation is not performing
• To remove internal conflicts
• After mergers and acquisitions
• When team membership changes
• As part of annual appraisal