Having the ability to understand and predict the performance and potential of your workforce, boost their engagement and productivity, keep ahead of your competitors and set the standard of your industry is why you cannot ignore talent development.
Talent Development
Identify talent and provide foundation for development.
Identify. Improve. Develop. Engage.
We believe in lifelong professional development,
giving every individual a clear path toward organisational and personal success.
We combine our technology capabilities, consulting expertise and talent development and assessment tools to help you:
- Align and develop your people
- Maximise the potential of your employees
- Identify and nurture your leaders
- Enhance team synergy and collaboration
- Engage and retain the right people
- Improve performance in leaders and their staff
We adopt a flexible approach so:
- You can access a range of pre-built individual and team programs, or create your own content with our experts
- Your in-house team or our experts can deliver the 1:1 debriefs and coaching sessions
- You can engage us for a one-off program or a longer-term partnership
Leadership Development
Leadership development is crucial for all businesses because having strong leaders equates to sustainable business success.
High Potential Program
Testgrid’s high potential program aims at improving the diversity of your leadership teams and creating long term strategies to continue to advance your organisation.
Individual Career Development Program
Testgrid’s individual talent development program provides you with meaningful insights and actions to enhance your career and maximise your potential.
Emotional Intelligence Development
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to identify and regulate one’s emotions and understand the emotions of others. It is one of the most critical attributes to have to succeed in your career. Get in touch to learn how our Talent Development expertise can build EI.
Utilise a range of off-the-shelf or fully customised assessment tools, Testgrid can work individually or in team sessions to:
- Assess and identify the key strengths of your existing or new leadership team
- Help you identify who, what and when to invest in terms of leadership coaching and training
- Provide clarity in terms of areas of development and potential “derailers”
- Advise you on how best to manage these at times of high stress or time pressures
Benefits
Understand team and individual strengths
Maximise group effectiveness
Enhance group dynamics and communication
Improve diversity of thought
Identify strengths gaps for talent development and recruitment
Using a range of assessments to match the competencies and behaviours that you need in your emerging leaders, Testgrid can work through individual or in team sessions, to:
- Enhance mobility within organisations and pinpointing the talent that you want to develop within your teams
- Help you identify your future leaders
- Structure a program to help them achieve their goals.
- Develop your people from product experts into all-round leaders and see the growth that they can drive
Benefits
Identify candidates with the highest potential
Assess against your customised HiPo frameworks
Maximise the potential of your future leaders
Retain and nurture the talents that you already have
Use data to drive key focus areas for individual and team development
The program is often used when leaders first join a new organisation or are planning to take the next step up. It is tailored to suit individual’s experience, requirements and industry.
Benefits
Understand yourself better
Maximise potential
Support new or experienced leaders
Help retain and develop your talent
Invest in your people
EI is an attribute that can be developed. Testgrid can support you to assess and improve your EI ability. From helping you to be more self-aware to self-manage, to enhancing your relationship management skills, to building resilience and mindfulness.
Benefits
Simple assessments to measure EI
Simple strategies to improve development areas
Individual and Group coaching to share and practice learnings
Ideal for leaders to enhance people skills and lead organisational culture
Proven improvements in call centre and customer service environments
Team Collaboration and Communication
Programs on collaboration and communication help teams to understand the different ways people think, act and benefit from effective communication.
Remote Working and Adapting to Change
Testgrid offers programs and tools to understand the preferences of how people want to work to enhance communication, collaboration and engagement.
360 Programs
The aim of a 360 is to improve self-awareness by highlighting inconsistencies between how a person sees themselves at work, and how others see them.
Safety Development Program
Safety programs support you in understanding your current benchmarks for existing staff and identifying any areas that require development.
One of the biggest challenges for organisations is understanding and communicating effectively within teams at all levels. The value of diversity of thought and approach is well recognised, but the benefits of this can only be realised with open and thoughtful communication.
For leaders, it is vital for understanding your teams and how to manage them as individuals, whilst improving the group effectiveness. This is particularly important now we are experiencing a more remote model of working.
Benefits
Enhance information sharing
Build deep understanding of each other
Streamline roles and tasks to suit profiles
Facilitate open and thoughtful communication
Measurable improvements and ROI
The pace of change and adaption of working styles is more relevant now than any time in recent history. Many people have thrived in the new workplace, but others have struggled.
Testgrid’s remote working and adapting to change program supports you in program development and helps your people in how to manage in the “new normal” workplace.
Benefits
Understand individual and team dynamics
Improve communication across groups
Support the ongoing need for change
Measurable outcomes and ROI
Manage the work/life balance
360s are a multi-rater questionnaire that gather performance feedback from an individual’s manager, peers, direct reports and/or customers. They can predict performance and provide foundations for development.
Typically, feedback on 360s are with one-on-one, development focused discussions with a consultant. A range of 360 tools can focus on different aspects including custom competencies, leadership benchmarking, emotional intelligence and personal agility.
Benefits
A well-used performance measure
Productive and individualised feedback
Fully supported and managed program
Can be combined with personality assessments for full picture of performance and potential
Quick to implement
Testgrid specialises in:
- assessing your candidates and existing employees to ensure that everyone working onsite protects themselves and other workers
- facilitating specialist awareness and training programs to improve the benchmark, reduce accidents and near misses
Benefits
Specialist safety assessments for key industries
Simple development tips for individuals
Benchmark and data analytics of group results
Awareness and development workshops
Specialist facilitation of group sessions
Explore our other areas of service
Talent Technology
Innovate. Integrate. Automate. Transform.
Talent Consulting
Advise. Analyse. Design. Deploy.
Talent Acquisition
Search. Screen. Assess. Check.
Contact us to learn more
We're always happy to have an informal chat and share our insights on how to improve your recruitment, employee development and engagement.
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