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CheckPoint 360 - Organizational Management Analysis The SkillBuilder Series

A complete management competency development system

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Profile’s Internet-based CheckPoint 360. Competency Feedback System is the foundation for a complete management competency development program. This powerful tool positively impacts a manager’s growth and an organization’s success. It gives managers a rating of their performance by the full circle of boss, peers, and direct reports. The report they receive helps them accurately evaluate their strengths, areas for improvement, and overall job performance. This is the basis for planning and executing a program of professional grown.

Participation and administration requires absolutely no special training. CheckPoint is easy and convenient to use with secure 24/7 Internet implementation.

CheckPoint measures eighteen job skills Essential to effective performance:

Communication

Including the skills of listening to others, processing information and communicating effectively.

Leadership
Covering the abilities of instilling trust, providing direction and delegating responsibility.

Adaptability
Encompassing the skills of adjusting to circumstances and thinking creatively.

Relationships
Assessing the capabilities to build relationships and facilitate team success.

Task Management
Gauging the level of aptitude for working efficiently and competently.

Production
Appraising abilities to initiate action and achieve results.

Development of Others
Measuring proficiencies in cultivating individual talents and motivating successfully.

Personal Development
Including the behaviors of displaying commitment and seeking improvement.

CheckPoint feedback sets the course for professional development and better performance

Good managers strive to increase their effectiveness, but may lack information to optimize their training and learning. The comprehensive CheckPoint Report is easy to read, understand, and use to fill the gaps in a manager’s knowledge and skills. CheckPoint is the starting point for a powerful management development system that yields results that are measurable and verifiable on your bottom line.

The CheckPoint Organizational management Analysis Report maps your organization’s path to a prosperous future

The Organizational Management Analysis is an essential element of organizational development. An OMA report presents a compilation of the information obtained from the individual CheckPoint results of a group of managers. Delivered via the Internet, the report provides a factual summary of the perceptions of a management group with input from the managers’ bosses, peers, and direct reports.

The value of the Organizational Management Analysis is in providing a description of where are we now? This has been described as “the fifth point of the compass.” The “fifth point” concept means successful management decisions regarding the direction to take a company must be predicated on knowing where you stand now. False assumptions often lead to wasting time, effort, and resources. The OMA report is a guide to future development based on statistically accurate date. When you know where you are and where you want to go, you can chart your course with confidence and certainty.

The Organizational Management Analysis process examines a company’s culture and provides insights to the alignment of management groups with the company’s goals and objectives. This information is used to analyze the human capital aspects expectations associated with an organization’s long-term strategic objectives. The report also provides an analysis of organizational development priorities and defines organizational training needs.

The next step in the management development system is the SkillBuilderTMSeries. SkillBuilder provides managers with a series of important steps that lead to leaps in performance.

SkillBuilder is a self-paced, interactive Internet-based self-improvement program that does not require special training classes or time off from work. This organized self-study method effectively promotes professional development in all CheckPoint competencies.

Managers participate in SkillBuilderon the Internet. They find it easy to use at their convenience. After responding to questions and doing online exercises, they click a button to print a customized Self-Improvement Report. The report provides a detailed plan of action for professional development.

By employing the KSS method, SkillBuilder helps managers identify the activities they want to KEEP doing – because they do them well, activities they want to STOP doing – because they are counterproductive, and activities they want to START doing – because they will improve their performance.

Using SkillBuilder pays big dividends because productivity, cooperation, communication, employee retention and profits increase while many “people problems” are reduced. SkillBuilder is an easy and effective method for better management.