Providing effective consulting solutions for today's workplace is a common challenge faced by organizational development specialists. HRXL™ and PeopleWorx™ offer TTI research-based, results driven tools to assist organizations in defining areas for improvement, as well as intervention priorities. Understanding an organization's challenges is the first step in providing effective solutions. Below are some of the areas in which we can provide tools for consultants and organizational development specialists.
Tools and Solutions for Organizational Development
In 1928, Eduard Spranger wrote a book entitled "Types of Men." He identified six attitudes or world-views. These attitudes are a type of window through which we view the world and seek fulfillment in our lives. If we are participating in a discussion, activity or career that is in line with our attitudes, we will value the experience. Conversely, if we are in a conversation, activity or career that is against our dominant attitudes, we will be indifferent or even negative toward the experience, possibly causing stress.
The Six Attitudes
Theoretical: A passion to discover, systematize and analyze; a search for knowledge.
Utilitarian: A passion to gain return on investment of time, resources and money.
Aesthetic: A passion to experience the impressions of the world and achieve form and harmony in life; self-actualization.
Social: A passion to eliminate hate and conflict in the world and to assist others in becoming all they can be.
Individualistic: A passion to achieve position and to use that position to affect and influence others.
Traditional: A passion to seek out and pursue the higher meaning in life and achieve a system for living.
The Assessment
The Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values™ Assessment measures your responses in each of the six attitudes. The computerized report shows each of the six attitudes compared to a national average. You are provided with information on the WHY of your actions, which with application, can tremendously impact your valuing of life. Once you know the attitudes that drive your actions, you will immediately be able to understand the causes of conflict. If you are in a career you are enjoying, or if you are finding little satisfaction in your career, you will understand why. You will understand and appreciate your relationships as you recognize the attitudes of other people. You will see how their attitudes might interact with your own.
The Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Assessment allows you to take control of your decisions, your life and your valuing of life. You will:
Know the WHY of your actions.
Make career choices that will increase your job satisfaction.
Understand the causes of conflict.
Develop an increased appreciation for the uniqueness of others.
Appreciate the viewpoint of others who see life differently.
Increase your "valuing" of life.
Increase your satisfaction and fulfillment in life.
Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Assessment™ is another validated, tested product from TTI that will assist you in becoming the winner you were intended to be.
Learning about a behavioral model will help a person to better understand themselves and others; therefore, enhancing personal and professional relationships. An understanding of behavior will lead to the accomplishment of the following:
Increased Understanding of Self
Increased Understanding of Others
Increased Communication
Increased Productivity
Decreased Tension
Computer Generated Reports
Based on the individual's responses to the Style Analysis™ Instrument, the Managing For Success® or the TTI Success Insights™ personalized report will be computer-generated with the following details:
General Characteristics
Value to the Organization
Checklist for Communicating
Don'ts on Communicating
Ideal Environment
Perceptions
Motivated Style
Keys to Motivating
Keys to Managing
Action Plan
The reports are available in a variety of customized versions. Here are some of the available formats in which they can be generated:
Managing For Success® and Success Insights™ Behavioral Reports are validated and tested products from TTI that will assist you in becoming the winner you were intended to be.
Proper guidance and direction often spell the difference between success and failure of an employee, a team or an organization. Build sound relationships from the beginning by starting with the Managing For Success® report.
Reduce Employee Turnover and New Training Costs
Show How to Spot Winners
Establish a Reliable Method for Hiring
Outlines Personal Strengths and Value to the Organization
The process for determining if a career change is the right move can be stressful and time-consuming. Once the decision has been made to make a career change, an individual moves into the career transition phase. Questions arise about the type of career to choose, additional education requirements and employment probability for the field. TTI has developed products for people in a career transition, which also outlines positions for a person's behavioral style and education level.
Is a Career Change Right for You?
Determining if a career change is right for you is a process in which the discovery of your personal strengths, motivations, and goals are of the utmost importance. If a career change is the right thing for you, you need to be sure you are making the right change.
Self Discovery
The TTI report, Successful Career Planning™, identifies specific talents and behaviors inherent in an individual. Success and job satisfaction come easier the closer the job matches an individual's natural behavioral style. The Successful Career Planning report offers a system to capitalize on the individual's talents, as well as their potential strengths and specific value to the organization. The report also provides a list of potential occupations that may suit the individual's natural behavioral style.
An individual's performance and attitude in the workplace can be directly related to their internal value system. This can be discovered through the TTI Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values™ assessment. The TTI Success Insights PIAV Report allows individuals to understand how their value system affects their choices and how it provides purpose and direction in their lives. Before making a career change, it is important to understand the values that drive your actions. This understanding will lead to a better decision for your future career.
Many poor career decisions have been made because there was not enough research completed on the position beforehand. The Successful Career Planning report gives a reference listing for the positions included. This is a good starting place to increase understanding about the potential career. More specific information will also need to be gathered from the potential employer.
Benefits of Understanding
The benefits of understanding who you are, through discovering your behavioral and values system before you make a career change are far reaching. Self-knowledge is power and gives you the keys to your future.
A Complete System for Understanding Behavior
Why Learn About Behavior?
Learning about a behavioral model will help a person to better understand themselves and others; therefore, enhancing personal and professional relationships. An understanding of behavior will lead to the accomplishment of the following:
Increased Understanding of Self
Increased Understanding of Others
Increased Communication
Increased Productivity
Decreased Tension
Computer Generated Reports
Based on the individual's responses to the Style Analysis™ Instrument, the Managing For Success® or the TTI Success Insights™ personalized report will be computer-generated with the following details:
Managing For Success® and Success Insights™ Behavioral Reports are validated and tested products from TTI that will assist you in becoming the winner you were intended to be.
Proper guidance and direction often spell the difference between success and failure of an employee, a team or an organization. Build sound relationships from the beginning by starting with the Managing For Success® report.
Reduce Employee Turnover and New Training Costs
Show How to Spot Winners
Establish a Reliable Method for Hiring
Outlines Personal Strengths and Value to the Organization
Effective communication stems from the right combination of tone of voice, words, body language and pace of speech and actions. These four areas are the components of a person's behavioral style. We need to adapt our behavior in order to communicate effectively with others. Using the techniques illustrated by TTI in their behavioral reports, individuals immediately open the doorways of communication with others in both their personal and professional lives.
Communication Profiles
TTI offers behavioral reports, which help individuals identify their communication style and how others perceive them. The profiles can be used in settings such as:
Learning about a behavioral model will help a person to better understand themselves and others; therefore, enhancing personal and professional relationships. An understanding of behavior will lead to the accomplishment of the following:
Increased Understanding of Self
Increased Understanding of Others
Increased Communication
Increased Productivity
Decreased Tension
Computer Generated Reports
Based on the individual's responses to the Style Analysis™ Instrument, the Managing For Success® or the TTI Success Insights™ personalized report will be computer-generated with the following details:
Managing For Success® and Success Insights™ Behavioral Reports are validated and tested products from TTI that will assist you in becoming the winner you were intended to be.
Proper guidance and direction often spell the difference between success and failure of an employee, a team or an organization. Build sound relationships from the beginning by starting with the Managing For Success® report.
Reduce Employee Turnover and New Training Costs
Show How to Spot Winners
Establish a Reliable Method for Hiring
Outlines Personal Strengths and Value to the Organization
Organizations across the world are starting to focus on their most valuable asset—people. Individuals are getting involved in their own development path and looking for ways to continuously improve their productivity, motivation and job satisfaction. Finding out what makes an individual "tick" is the first step in providing a continuous improvement action plan. How and why does the individual do the things he or she does?
Self Discovery through Assessments
Understanding oneself is the foundation behind developing a continual improvement process. Self-discovery is accomplished through assessments, which provides insight on how people do things, why people do things and others' perceptions of them. These assessments are TTI Success Insights Management-Staffand TTI Success Insights PIAV.
Process for Continuous Improvement
Three key factors are necessary for an effective continuous improvement plan. They are commitment, accountability and coaching or mentoring. People must take charge of their life in order to reach their optimum potential. Being held accountable keeps individuals focused and goal-driven. Retaining a coach or a mentor will help increase the success potential of the continuous improvement plan.
Goal Setting
In order for people to set goals for themselves or their organization, they first must understand themselves and others—their strengths and potential weaknesses, as well as their values or beliefs.
There are five key elements to goal setting. These elements will keep you focused and will help keep goals realistic. Goal setting research has shown that an individual cannot concentrate on more than three goals at any given time. Therefore, identifying three goals at a time has proven to be most effective.
Benefits of the HRXL and PeopleWorx Solutions
HRXL and PeopleWorx have personal and professional development processes that put individuals in charge of their own careers. These processes build in assessments, commitment, accountability and coaching. They are the most complete developmental tools on the market today.
A Complete System for Understanding Behavior
Why Learn About Behavior?
Learning about a behavioral model will help a person to better understand themselves and others; therefore, enhancing personal and professional relationships. An understanding of behavior will lead to the accomplishment of the following:
Increased Understanding of Self
Increased Understanding of Others
Increased Communication
Increased Productivity
Decreased Tension
Computer Generated Reports
Based on the individual's responses to the Style Analysis™ Instrument, the Managing For Success® or the TTI Success Insights™ personalized report will be computer-generated with the following details:
Managing For Success® and Success Insights™ Behavioral Reports are validated and tested products from TTI that will assist you in becoming the winner you were intended to be.
Proper guidance and direction often spell the difference between success and failure of an employee, a team or an organization. Build sound relationships from the beginning by starting with the Managing For Success® report.
Reduce Employee Turnover and New Training Costs
Show How to Spot Winners
Establish a Reliable Method for Hiring
Outlines Personal Strengths and Value to the Organization
Building and maintaining a database of satisfied customers is a challenge for any organization. Having the right people interacting with customers is key in overall customer satisfaction. Understanding who the customer is and the type of interaction the customer best responds to can be the difference between satisfied and dissatisfied customers. TTI products can teach employees how to recognize the behavioral style of customers and, therefore, adapt their own behavioral style in order to effectively communicate.
The MFS TTI Success Insights Customer Service™ is the TTI behavioral report designed to enable employees who have contact with customers to learn more about themselves and how certain customers will react to their natural style. This increased knowledge will help the employee build rapport and provide more successful customer service.
Quarterly or semi-annual trainings are great refreshers for existing employees and will ensure that new employees will possess the same customer service advantages.
A Complete System for Understanding Behavior
Why Learn About Behavior?
Learning about a behavioral model will help a person to better understand themselves and others; therefore, enhancing personal and professional relationships. An understanding of behavior will lead to the accomplishment of the following:
Increased Understanding of Self
Increased Understanding of Others
Increased Communication
Increased Productivity
Decreased Tension
Computer Generated Reports
Based on the individual's responses to the Style Analysis™ Instrument, the Managing For Success® or the TTI Success Insights™ personalized report will be computer-generated with the following details:
Managing For Success® and Success Insights™ Behavioral Reports are validated and tested products from TTI that will assist you in becoming the winner you were intended to be.
Proper guidance and direction often spell the difference between success and failure of an employee, a team or an organization. Build sound relationships from the beginning by starting with the Managing For Success® report.
Reduce Employee Turnover and New Training Costs
Show How to Spot Winners
Establish a Reliable Method for Hiring
Outlines Personal Strengths and Value to the Organization
Individuals continually strive to achieve the desired results in life, whatever that may be for each individual. Once the results are achieved, the individual tends to move to the next goal. In order to grow personally and/or professionally, an individual must have a strong sense of self-awareness, including strengths and potential weaknesses. TTI assessments can give individuals a stronger sense of self-awareness needed to develop a targeted path to achieve their goals.
TTI offers an array of products for both personal and professional growth. Individuals can receive feedback from people in their professional life as well as in their personal life and learn what they bring to relationships behaviorally. They learn how they approach problems and influence people. They learn the importance they place on systems, completing tasks and following procedures. Overall, people better understand themselves and the people they interact with and value in their lives.
Families often turn to TTI products to help increase communication within the household. For this purpose, TTI offers the Family Talk—Parent and the Family Talk—Young Adult. These two reports combined are sure to open the doors of understanding between parents and children. This will allow for effective communication in both happy and stressful times.
The Family Talk reports were developed specifically to assist families in improving the core factor of family relationships—communication. Family Talk helps families eliminate misunderstandings, conflict and stress by improving understanding and accepting the actions of those involved.
Personal growth can be one of the most rewarding adventures in a person's life. With the help of a coach or mentor, proper goal setting and accountability checkpoints, anyone can make the personal growth process a success.
A Complete System for Understanding Behavior
Why Learn About Behavior?
Learning about a behavioral model will help a person to better understand themselves and others; therefore, enhancing personal and professional relationships. An understanding of behavior will lead to the accomplishment of the following:
Increased Understanding of Self
Increased Understanding of Others
Increased Communication
Increased Productivity
Decreased Tension
Computer Generated Reports
Based on the individual's responses to the Style Analysis™ Instrument, the Managing For Success® or the TTI Success Insights™ personalized report will be computer-generated with the following details:
Managing For Success® and Success Insights™ Behavioral Reports are validated and tested products from TTI that will assist you in becoming the winner you were intended to be.
Proper guidance and direction often spell the difference between success and failure of an employee, a team or an organization. Build sound relationships from the beginning by starting with the Managing For Success® report.
Reduce Employee Turnover and New Training Costs
Show How to Spot Winners
Establish a Reliable Method for Hiring
Outlines Personal Strengths and Value to the Organization
Perception is reality. Success stems from knowing how others perceive you. A 360-degree feedback assessment will identify areas in which a person is performing above, at or below the standard of his/her boss, self, peers and customers (if applicable). A 360-degree assessment is a powerful tool for helping individuals improve, grow and develop their interpersonal skills through personalized feedback.
A 360 assessment shows an individual what others think their performance is versus what it should be. Understanding others' perceptions will increase an individual's drive for success when he/she is given the information in a constructive manner such as a one-on-one debriefing session.
It is imperative that necessary follow-up strategies are adhered to in order to have a successful outcome. A 360 assessment is to be used as a starting point for a developmental process. The reports should be facilitated in a way that leads to a complete process for improvement. When individuals look at a 360 as a starting point to an improvement process, they feel more secure with the information given.
Features of TTI's OD Surveys 360
Customized Survey Questions
Customized Answer Scales
Open-ended Questions
Demographic Breakdowns
Online
Easy to Interpret
Success stems from knowing how others perceive you. A 360-degree feedback assessment provides this information. Using 360 assessments will increase professional development and overall productivity.
Learning about a behavioral model will help a person to better understand themselves and others; therefore, enhancing personal and professional relationships. An understanding of behavior will lead to the accomplishment of the following:
Increased Understanding of Self
Increased Understanding of Others
Increased Communication
Increased Productivity
Decreased Tension
Computer Generated Reports
Based on the individual's responses to the Style Analysis™ Instrument, the Managing For Success® or the TTI Success Insights™ personalized report will be computer-generated with the following details:
Managing For Success® and Success Insights™ Behavioral Reports are validated and tested products from TTI that will assist you in becoming the winner you were intended to be.
Proper guidance and direction often spell the difference between success and failure of an employee, a team or an organization. Build sound relationships from the beginning by starting with the Managing For Success® report.
Reduce Employee Turnover and New Training Costs
Show How to Spot Winners
Establish a Reliable Method for Hiring
Outlines Personal Strengths and Value to the Organization
The TTI reports give executives an accurate analysis of their personal strengths and the value they bring to an organization. This knowledge enables them to maintain control over their own destiny and assists them in making strategic decisions in human capital management. Executives can then help develop action plans to build on the strengths of the company and its employees with the use of TTI reports.
TTI's MFS TTI Success Insights Executive TM report is often used in preparation for strategic planning sessions. It offers the top management team specific information that paves the way for enhanced inter-personal communication and increases the value of individual contributions. This report details the following on each individual:
General Characteristics
Value to the Organization
Checklist for Communicating
Don'ts on Communicating
Perceptions
Motivated Style
The report is designed specifically for CEOs, business owners, managers and decision makers. It outlines personal behavioral strengths and how the strengths bring value to the organization. The report identifies how an executive will approach problems and challenges. It targets characteristics that can move an executive from a "manager" to a "leader". The MFS TTI Success Insights Executive also offers strategies for communicating openly, honestly and directly to get the results the organization needs.
TTI offers an attitude assessment to accompany the MFS TTI Success Insights Executive for strategic planning. The Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Assessment TTI Success Insights PIAV Report allows executives to take control of their decisions and understand their valuing of life. It helps executives to:
Know the WHY of their actions.
Make career choices that will increase job satisfaction.
Understand the root causes of conflict.
Develop an increased appreciation for the uniqueness of others.
Appreciate the viewpoint of others who see life differently.
Increase their "valuing" of life.
Increase their satisfaction and fulfillment in life.
The Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Assessment TTI Success Insights PIAV Report measures responses in six attitudes. The computerized report shows each of the six attitudes compared to a national average. Information is provided on the WHY of individuals' actions, which, with application, can tremendously impact their valuing of life. When executives understand the attitudes that drive their actions, they immediately understand the causes of conflict. They begin to understand and appreciate relationships as they recognize the attitudes of other people and see how their attitudes interact with their own.
Self-awareness can serve as the answer to stress management. Knowing your limitations is sometimes more important in stressful situations than knowing your strengths and what causes you stress. You can then prioritize tasks based on time and the amount of adapting needed. Overall satisfaction will be increased by the ability to manage the amount of job stress.
The TTI behavioral reports are designed to increase self-awareness and to identify possible strengths and limitations. Knowing this information allows a person to determine stress points and eliminate potential productivity blockers.
In addition to using the behavioral reports to manage stress, TTI has created the Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values TTI Success Insights PIAV report, which allows individuals to identify personal motivators. When everyday activities satisfy personal motivators, a person's stress will decrease.
Understanding why and how a person will take action helps others appreciate differences. Combining the TTI reports gives a full picture of potential stressful situations, as well as stress eliminators. Meeting with a coach on a regular basis, whether a professional or a trusted acquaintance, can help deal with stress and eliminate potential stress.
When people understand themselves and eliminate needless stress, productivity and overall life satisfaction will increase.
Managing time and priorities can greatly impact an individual's productivity. Every individual has a natural way of managing or not managing his or her time. The TTI report, Time P.L.U.S.™ (Plan, Learn, Use and Succeed), offers solutions for time management based on the individual's natural behavioral style. This opens up an opportunity for the individual to develop a new approach to organizing, monitoring and managing his or her time.
Time P.L.U.S. identifies time wasters that impact individual productivity, their possible causes and offers solutions for correcting or eliminating them.
Time P.L.U.S. includes personalized information on:
Continued success in management can be achieved through continuous learning throughout the organization. Building effective teams and opening communication lines are just two pieces of the equation. Establishing trust and a high morale is also a key factor in Total Quality Management (TQM). TTI has tools available to assist with theses aspects and more.
Proper guidance and direction often spells the difference between success and failure of employees, a team and an organization. People are unique and must be managed, coached and supported in a way that capitalizes on their uniqueness. TTI assessments are designed to identify an employee's individual strengths and possible limitations and to assist managers and supervisors in developing an action plan for increasing employee productivity and overall organizational effectiveness.
TTI's MFS Employee-ManagerT TTI Success Insights Management-Staff can assist a company in TQM as it relates to human capital, such as new employee orientation, revitalizing current employees, coaching and mentoring, and conflict resolution.
New Employee Orientation:
Get each new employee off to a fast, productive start. Build sound relationships from the beginning.
Training and Development for Current Employees
Open the door for effective interpersonal communications between managers and workers or members of a team. An understanding of individual work styles can assist employees at all levels in working more productively together and will revitalize the individual and the team.
Coaching and Mentoring
The MFS Employee-ManagerT TTI Success Insights Management-Staff allows the manager to give feedback to the employee in a style that they can understand and accept. It makes it easy for managers to gain commitment for improving performance and accelerating professional growth.
Conflict Resolution
From time to time people will find themselves in conflict with fellow employees. Finding effective ways to resolve differences is easier when you understand each other's work style preferences.
By involving the entire organization in education and training, each member of your team can help accomplish the company's mission and goal.
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