Frequently Asked Questions

What follows are questions we are often asked about our assessment-based solutions.  Please call us (617-864-7474) or send us an email (info@target-teams.com) for a prompt reply if your question remains uncovered.

Am I able to resell Target Teams' Assessment-based Solutions as a part of my Consulting, Coaching, Training or Facilitation work?

• Absolutely! Target Teams' solutions are an ideal complement to any consulting work that includes the analysis of the "people elements" of business. For more information please contact Kevin Cook at 617-864-7474 x.112 or kevin@target-teams.com

Employees and Corporate Teams

How do customers utilize Target Teams’ questionnaires with employees and corporate teams?

• Target Teams’ assessment questionnaires are extremely useful in understanding strengths and challenges with an individual or with a corporate team:
  
• As compared to a specific role requirements
• As compared to other individuals on the team, or
• As compared to the hiring manager
• As compared to the company’s culture
   
• Customers regularly incorporate these questionnaires and report during Team Building Workshops, Sales Kickoff Meetings, Executive Offsites and Employee or Management Coaching Sessions.

How do businesses use these tools in the Hiring Process?

• Target Teams’ Certified Business Partners first discover your business goals before jointly creating a plan, which details the most effective method for implementing these solutions in your hiring process.
  
• Target Teams’ Business Partners might suggest analyzing your existing top performers, or
• “Polling” people who know this job extremely well.
• Sometimes our partners recommend doing both. Again, it all depends on your goals, the # of people in your firm and the # of top performers you can identify.
  
• You can rest assured that your Target Teams Business Partner will recommend the most efficient and most cost effective way to proceed. We support them as they walk you through each step of the process.

Do many businesses utilize assessment-based solutions with their job candidates, employee teams and executives?

• Recent research published in The Washington Post describes that more than 30% of all organizations are using these kinds of tools for either hiring or for employee or team development?
  

How long have assessment tools been available for use in business?

• Versions of Target Teams' questionnaires have been available for over 30 years.
  

How would someone complete an assessment? 

• It's easy. Your employee or candidate would be sent an email with a URL, which would provide them with directions for completing the questions. It will take approx. 24 minutes to complete all questions.

How long does it take for the assessment results generated and returned?

• Assessment results are emailed to the appropriate person (HR, Hiring Manager, Employee or any other location) within 3 seconds of the assessment being completed.
  

Is there a preferred or a more “ideal” report or profile?

• There is no best, worst, or average profile.  Each person is an aggregation of many characteristics. Some characteristics matter more in one job role or team than in another.
  
  We will tell you how a person will perform on the job. We can predict which rewards are motivating for them. We can focus an individual or employer on the performance style and personal ambitions better suited to handle specific jobs and careers.
  
  All information we gather and report to you focuses on how these elements fit with the needs of a specific job role or job culture.
  

What are appropriate uses for these kinds of assessments?

• Selecting "best fit" Job Candidates.
• Assessing employees to help with career planning.
• Predicting Top Sales Performers
• Building highly performing teams
• Identifying areas that might lead to conflict on a team.
• Developing Executive, Management and Leadership Teams
• Selecting future leaders from within a company (Succession Planning)
• Assessing founders as a part of due diligence for investment analysis.
• As an integral part of a High Potential Program

Do these questionnaires measure honesty, intelligence, or other psychological issues?

• We cannot and do not measure any of the items mentioned above.
  

How easy will it be for my company to begin using the assessment questionnaires with candidates and employees?

• It is a simple process to begin utilizing these tools. All respondents complete their assessments (in about 24 minutes) via the internet.
  

How does an organization learn what the results mean?

• Job Candidate Results
• Target Teams’ Online Assessment Portal – Advisor™ - is uniquely designed to compare job candidate answers against job requirements.  Within seconds Advisor™ delivers an analysis of a “Match” to the Ideal Job Benchmark. 
  
• Advisor™ shows red flags, describes what those flags mean to job performance and generates customized Performance Style and Ambitions™ interview questions.
  
• Employees Results
• Assessment reports are very “readable”.  They do not include psychological terminology.
• Target Teams provides a variety of "cheat sheets" to assist the reader in gaining an even deeper level of understanding about the reports they will receive.

May I sample an assessment to see what it can tell me about myself?

• You bet.  Please contact your certified Target Teams Business Partner or info@target-teams.com to ask about a complementary assessment.
  

What is the typical size of customer using these instruments?

• Target Teams' Business Partners utilize these questionnaires with clients of every size and in every industry. 
  
  Our technology can process and analyze high volumes of assessments if necessary, making our solutions appealing to customers who work with large volumes of candidates or employees.
  
  Both small (very small) and large (very large) clients can easily utilize these instruments. They are priced to be affordable to the smaller clients - and are scaled to accommodate needs of extremely large clients (Target Teams can currently process and analyze 1 assessment every 1/2 second).
  

Is it legal to utilize assessment instruments during the hiring process?

• Yes.
  
  When these tools are used in accordance with prescribed EEOC guidelines they are legal.  The EEOC requires all assessment questions to be directly related to a specific requirement of the job. They also require all questions to be non-biased in any way against gender, age, race or any disability.
  
  Target Teams' instruments comply on each of these levels.

How do you know these assessments are accurate and valid?

• Accuracy is everything to Target Teams. If these tools do not provide an accurate depiction of your employees or job candidates these tools can be dangerous.
• To that end, we re-test and re-validate frequently.
• Most recent validation studies were completed in July 2008.

Do you have validation studies I may see for these tools?

• Yes.  Please contact your Business Partner or Target Teams directly for more information at info@target-teams.com

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