TALENT SUITE
How Talent Assessments Unleash Potential in Your Workforce
Maximize workforce potential with Korn Ferry Assess. Select and develop your talent pipeline using our data-driven, validated talent assessments.
Build Your Talent Strategy with Insights from Our Data-Driven Assessments
In today’s dynamic business environment, understanding and leveraging your workforce’s potential is essential. Choosing the right talent to deliver on your business goals takes more than just identifying the right people. It requires a full understanding of your organization’s current and future needs. This includes pinpointing skill gaps, identifying high-potential individuals, and ensuring that your talent strategy aligns with your business goals.
However, developing a robust talent strategy isn’t easy. Leaders must deal with a market that’s always changing. They need to understand the diverse needs of their workforce. Organizations risk falling behind without a clear understanding of the skills, behaviors, and mindsets needed for success.
Many organizations struggle with identifying the right talent to drive their strategy forward. This can lead to suboptimal hiring, missed development opportunities, and a lack of readiness for future leadership needs.
How can organizations overcome these challenges? By integrating a comprehensive talent assessment solution, like Korn Ferry Assess.
Here’s how our talent assessments can help.
Selecting the Right Talent
Many organizations take a one-size-fits-all approach to talent management. While this approach may seem efficient, it often overlooks the nuanced differences between roles, departments, and individuals. A more sophisticated, tailored strategy is essential to ensure the right fit for each role. The best approach depends on factors including your organization’s needs and the skills and behaviors needed for the role.
With competition for top talent increasingly fierce, it’s more important than ever to assess candidates quickly and accurately. Organizations must understand the current capabilities of their workforce and anticipate future needs. This means being able to evaluate internal candidates for promotion and external candidates for new roles.
How Korn Ferry Assess Can Help
Talent assessments from Korn Ferry Assess help you find candidates who match your Success Profiles—detailed descriptions of what “good” looks like in every role in your organization. These profiles form the foundation for your people strategy, including hiring, compensation, and development.
We craft these profiles based on extensive research and tailor them to align with your organizational goals. We identify the key skills, behaviors, and mindsets required for each position so you can evaluate candidates using relevant standards
Once these Success Profiles are in place, our scientifically validated talent assessments measure how well each candidate fits a job’s established criteria. Our assessments measure the competencies, traits, and drivers that align with your strategic goals. The result? You get a clear, objective view of each candidate’s potential and a straightforward path to making the right choice every time.
Our assessment process isn’t just about ticking boxes; it’s about gaining a deep understanding of each candidate’s potential to thrive in your company. With Korn Ferry Assess, you’ll make informed decisions about when to promote from within and when to hire external talent.
Developing Your Workforce
Given the competition in the market, organizations cannot afford to overlook their workforce’s development needs. The pace of change across industries means that the skills required today may not be the same as those needed tomorrow. To stay ahead, organizations must proactively identify and address skill gaps in their teams.
However, developing a workforce requires more than just generic training programs; it requires a deep understanding of each employee’s unique strengths and areas for improvement. Without a clear development strategy, organizations risk underusing their talent, leading to decreased engagement and higher turnover.
How Korn Ferry Assess Can Help
Korn Ferry Assess delivers a thorough assessment of your workforce against specific role requirements. We do more than help you determine whether employees meet the qualifications for their current roles. We show you how their skills, behaviors, and mindsets align with your organization’s evolving needs. By pinpointing where skill gaps exist, Korn Ferry Assess focuses your development efforts where they’ll have the most impact.
After identifying these gaps, our talent assessments help you create individualized development plans. Our plans address each employee’s specific needs, helping them build the competencies required to succeed in their current roles and prepare for future opportunities. This personalized approach equips your workforce to meet current demands.
Korn Ferry Assess goes even further by empowering your employees to take control of their own development. Employees gain talent insights into their strengths and areas for improvement from our personalized reports. These reports provide clear guidance on the steps employees can take to advance their skills and careers. By giving employees ownership of their development journey, you foster a culture of continuous learning and boost employee retention.
Moreover, Korn Ferry assessments support managers and HR professionals in guiding and monitoring development. The platform provides detailed analytics that track progress over time, ensuring that learning initiatives are delivering the desired results. This data-driven approach allows you to make informed decisions about where to invest in training, optimizing the return on your efforts.
Identifying and Nurturing Leadership Potential
Every organization’s success depends on its leaders. Leaders are the driving force behind strategic initiatives, cultural stewards, and visionaries who guide teams toward achieving long-term goals. Identifying individuals with the potential to lead—both now and in the future—is critical to sustaining growth and achieving long-term business objectives.
However, without a structured approach to assessing leadership potential, organizations may overlook high-potential individuals or promote individuals who are not ready to lead. Identifying future leaders requires a systematic approach that recognizes and prepares the right individuals to step into leadership roles.
How Korn Ferry Assess Can Help
Korn Ferry Assess offers talent assessment tools and workforce insights that enable organizations to identify leadership potential. First, we assess your current workforce to determine who has the qualities necessary to lead. Our talent assessments go beyond surface-level traits to uncover the deeper attributes critical for successful leadership. These scientifically validated tools evaluate a range of factors, including an individual’s ability to think strategically, influence others, and drive results.
Once you have identified potential leaders, Korn Ferry Assess helps you nurture their growth by providing a clear roadmap for development. This includes personalized development plans tailored to each individual’s strengths and areas for improvement. These plans build on existing capabilities to prepare individuals for the specific challenges they’ll face as leaders. By focusing on the key competencies required for leadership, Korn Ferry Assess ensures future leaders are equipped to handle complex roles.
Korn Ferry Assess also helps organizations create a robust leadership pipeline. We help you identify who is ready to lead now plus who has the potential to lead in the future. By looking beyond current performance to assess potential, talent assessments enable you to build a long-term strategy for leadership succession. Our forward-thinking approach prepares your organization for immediate leadership needs and positions you to thrive in the years to come.
Aligning Your Talent Strategy with Business Goals
Your talent strategy must align with your organization’s overall objectives to maximize business performance. A misaligned strategy can hurt your ability to achieve your objectives, resulting in missed opportunities and hurting employee retention.
Alignment requires a deep understanding of your workforce’s capabilities and how they contribute to your strategic goals.
How Korn Ferry Assess Can Help
With Korn Ferry Assess, you can create a talent strategy that links directly to your business objectives. This involves identifying critical roles that drive your business and understanding the competencies required to excel in those roles. By aligning your strategy with these critical areas, you ensure that your organization is equipped with the right people to execute its strategic plan effectively.
Korn Ferry Assess also helps you track the impact of your talent strategy on business performance. By continuously monitoring and analyzing the alignment between your talent initiatives and business outcomes, you can make data-driven adjustments that keep your organization on course. This ongoing alignment process is critical in today’s fast-paced business environment, where the ability to adapt quickly can mean the difference between success and failure.
Korn Ferry Assess Delivers Comprehensive Talent Insights
Korn Ferry Assess is more than just a talent assessment tool. It’s a strategic partner in building a resilient, high-performing workforce. With its advanced capabilities, you can confidently select the right talent and maximize your workforce’s potential. Whether you are promoting from within or bringing in new talent, Korn Ferry Assess provides the clarity and confidence you need to make the right decisions every time. Download our brochure now to explore how Korn Ferry Assess can help you unlock the full potential of your talent.
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