Employee
Assessments

Assessments and inventories are important tools in developing leaders and talent.

We design, administer, report, debrief and coach around assessments.

PPS International Limited has a variety of assessments available to support development, selection, coaching, team building and needs assessment. In addition to our assessments, we offer third-party assessments such as Everything DiSC, Hogan Assessments, Harrison Assessments and more.

 

More than 15,000 assessment takers a year through our various assessments.

Private-label branded assessment administration centers for many of the Fortune 500.

Facilitation, coaching and debriefing services in multiple languages.

Design of full-scale assessment centers including live simulations and reporting processes.

We design and implement

We design and implement full-scale assessment centers for development and selection.

Contact us about your specific assessment needs including designing assessment centers and assessment bureaus, where we handle all the administrative aspects of implementing assessments.

Uncover development gaps.
Provide insights.
Build awareness.

We have the assessment to support your talent acquisition and development work.

Personality, Behavior Preferences and Strengths

  • SOLO IS®
    Method and Uses
    • A virtual self-assessment that provides insight into an individual’s preferred Interaction Style and level of Interpersonal Acumen (ability to adapt behaviors to the preferences of others in order to reduce tension in interactions).
    • The output report includes information about other Interaction Styles and provides guidance on recognizing others’ styles and adapting behaviors in order to be more influential.
    Features
    • Can be purchased using a credit card by individuals for themselves.
    • Can be administered to a group through an administrator account, with results reports being automatically distributed or held and distributed at a later time.
    • For groups, the administrator can run a group report which outlines each group member’s individual style.
    • 58 items are included; it takes about 15 minutes to complete.
    • Useful in teaching influence skills, sales, customer service, presentation skills, delegation, conflict management and other skills where being influential under pressure is helpful.
    • A mini-certification program is available for those new to Interaction Styles.
    • Several companion training programs are available in virtual and in-person formats

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  • Interaction Style Self-Profiles® and Guidebooks
    Method and Uses
    • A paper-based self-assessment that provides insight into an individual’s preferred Interaction Style and level of Interpersonal Acumen (flexibility and adaptability in communicating).
    Features
    • Available in multiple languages.
    • The profile is accompanied by a Guidebook on the four interaction styles and provides guidance on recognizing other' styles and adapting behaviors in order to be more influential, including worksheets for use in planing important interactions. 
    • 58 items are included; it takes about 15 minutes to complete. 
    • Useful in teaching influence skills, sales, customer service, presentation skills, delegation, conflict management and other skills where being influential under pressure is helpful. 
    • A mini-certification program is available for those new to Interaction Styles. 
    • Several companion training programs are available in virtual and in-person formats. 

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  • Everything DiSC Workplace® Profile by Wiley
    Method and Uses
    • The DiSC assessment is a non-judgmental tool used to provide a common language that people can use to better understand themselves and to adapt their behaviors with others.
    Features
    • The assessment uses adaptive testing to provide accurate reports that are personalized to the user.
    • Multiple languages available.
    • Takes about 15 minutes to complete online.
    • Additional profiles available including Everything DiSC Management Profile and Everything DiSC Productive Conflict and more.
    • Can be set up so that Training Coordinators and others can order through a company-specific portal.
  • Harrison Assessment®
    Method and Uses
    • An online assessment that measures an individual’s work preferences, values and tendency to enjoy and therefore be suited to aspects of specific roles.
    • Validated for selection and useful in coaching and development, especially as part of career or succession planning and development.
    Features
    • Participants force-rank their preferences; for most people it takes about 20 minutes to complete.
    • Available in multiple languages.
    • Includes a variety of reports including Job Success Analysis, Paradox Report, Development for Position and How to Manage, Develop and Retain.
    • Hundreds of pre-validated, role-specific templates available for comparison of an individual’s preferences and the role being hired for, developed for or coached toward.
    • Easily and quickly customizable to company-specific job descriptions, core values and competencies.

    Learn more at our Harrison Assessment® page.

  • Organizational Savvy Self-Assessment by Brandon Partners
    Method and Uses
    • An online, self-survey for executives, managers, professionals and individual contributors to uncover abilities in 13 categories relevant to dealing with organizational politics.
    • Results lend insight to a more successful navigation of organizational politics and can be used in coaching or as part of influence training.
    Features
    • Based upon the book, Survival of the Savvy by Rick Brandon and Marty Seldman.
    • Takes about 20 minutes to complete.
    • Can be used with the companion training program called Organizational Savvy, which is available in virtual and in-person options.

    Learn more about the Organizational Savvy program

  • Insights® Discovery
    Method and Uses
    • An online, personal profile report, expressed in four easy-to-remember colors, that provides insight into a person’s thinking, decision making, communication styles, strengths, weaknesses and their management style, if they lead others.
    Features
    • Takes about 15 minutes to complete.
    • Reports include suggestions for development.
    • Multiple languages available.
    • Certification is required in order to purchase, unless also purchasing debriefing, workshop or coaching.
    • Reports are best used in conjunction with the Insights Discovery® workshop options.
  • EQ-i 2.0® by MHS
    Method and Uses
    • A self-inventory assessing emotional intelligence and social skills.
    • The workplace profile offers suggestions for working more effectively in one’s role with colleagues, supervisors and clients.
    Features
    • Multiple languages available.
    • Takes about 20 minutes to complete.
    • A leadership report is also available which focuses on leadership development and developing high potential leaders.
    • Certification required to debrief or use in training programs.
    We offer extensive coaching services, including use of the EQ-i 2.0® as part of assessment centers.

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  • CliftonStrengths® by Gallup
    Method and Uses
    • A self-survey that includes 34 CliftonStrengths themes, which sort into four domains, based upon culmination of decades of research led by Don Clifton to study and categorize the talents of the world's most successful people.
    Features
    • Takes up to an hour to complete the online profile, which has individuals choose between paired statements.
    • Various versions available including CliftonStrengths 34, CliftonStrengths Top 5, CliftonStrengths for Leaders and more.
    We offer implementation support options and training administration, including handling assessment administration using customized client ordering portals. 

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  • VIA Strengths (VIA Total 24 Character Strengths Report) by the VIA Institute on Character
    Method and Uses
    • An online self-assessment that offers an overview of strengths that individuals express in thoughts, behaviors and actions.
    Features
    • Takes about 30 minutes to complete.
    • A 96-question personality test.
    • Assesses 24 character strengths.
    • Reports can be ordered and administered to groups or individuals.

Feedback, Perceptions, Leadership

  • Lockwood Leadership Assessment®
    Method and Uses
    • A 360-Degree Feedback Instrument
    • Used to gather anonymous information about how individuals are perceived as performing against specific behaviors, competencies or displaying values. 
    • Feedback is captured from a variety of sources including from the individual’s manager, direct reports, peers, internal and external customers and others.
    • Results are compiled into a report of findings with the data arranged in a variety of useful reports.
    Features
    • Depending upon the version, most individuals can complete the assessment in 30 minutes or less including open-ended questions.
    • Available in multiple languages.
    • Many off-the-shelf versions are available based upon role and behaviors to be measured including versions such as HR Professional 360, Sales Team Profile, Senior Leader Success Profile, Strategic Leadership Skills 360, Project Team 360, Executive Excellence 360, Foundations of Leadership and more.
    • Fully customizable to company-specific competencies.
    • We have a competency library of more than 2000 behavioral items to use in tailoring the assessment.
    • Can be embedded into training programs, coaching processes and assessment centers.
    • Debriefing certification available.
    • Customizable debriefing toolkits for the coach and coachee available.
    • Can be set up so that HR Business Partners and others can order through a company-specific portal.
  • Hogan Leadership or Insights Series
    Method and Uses
    • Hogan Assessments help individuals and organizations by identifying characteristics that may affect an individual’s job performance as well as their fit within a particular role, team or organizational culture.
    Features

    Versions available are: 

    • Motives, Values, Preferences, Inventory (MVPI): The Inside of personality, measured by the Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI), describes the core goals, values, drivers, and interests that determine what we desire and strive to attain.
    • Hogan Development Survey (HDS): The dark side of personality, measured by the Hogan Development Survey (HDS). Consists of qualities that emerge in times of increased strain. Left unchecked, these can disrupt relationships, damage reputations, and derail people’s chances of success.
    • Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI): The bright side of personality, measured by the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), describes how we relate to others when we are at our best.
    • Multiple languages available.
    • Requires certification for ordering and debriefing unless also purchasing debriefing or coaching.
    We offer extensive coaching, including debriefing of the Hogan Assessment.

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  • LVI®, Leadership Versatility Index by Kaiser Leadership Solutions
    Method and Uses
    • A 360-degree feedback instrument, the LVI assesses the opposing but complementary behaviors required for effective leadership.
    • The LVI is built around a patented Too Little / Too Much rating scale. Using this scale, the leader, working with their coach, can quickly distinguish their strengths from their strengths overused—as well as those areas they need to strengthen further to be more effective.
    Features
    • Most people complete in 10-15 minutes.
    • Survey results are organized to show how the leader balances Forceful and Enabling behaviors as well as Strategic and Operational activities.
    • Communicated in simple graphics, the feedback helps the leader quickly see a clear picture of what they are doing well and what they may need to adjust to strike a better balance.
    • Requires certification to debrief.
    We offer extensive coaching, including debriefing of the LVI.

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  • Leadership Best Practices Self-Profile
    Method and Uses
    • A simple, hard-copy, self-scoring, self-inventory measuring eight leadership competency areas to deepen understanding of individual skills as a leader including Acts with Honesty & Integrity, Influences Others and Builds Effective Relationships, Champions Change and Leads Courageously.
    • Useful when budgets are tight and leaders are new to assessments.
    Features
    • Takes about 15 minutes to complete, including scoring.
    • Easy to implement and administer: no certification or complex reporting.
    • An entry-level assessment that can be coupled with a discussion about performance and development goals.
    • 8 competency areas and 42 items are included.
    • The booklet includes a simplified debriefing and action planning page.

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  • FIRO-B® Profile by the Myers-Briggs Company
    Method and Uses
    • An assessment tool that measures interpersonal needs for inclusion, control and affection and how these needs influence communication style and behavior.
    Features
    • Easy to administer.
    • Promotes behavior changes that help people to build better relationships and performance.

Specialty

  • Team Performance Survey
    Method and Uses
    • An online, multi-rater team survey that provides information about how the overall team functions around key success factors such as understanding roles and goals, dealing with conflict and more.
    Features
    • One report is generated for the entire team with measures of perception on team performance.
    • The team leader or manager’s perceptions are isolated in the report so that gaps in perception can be explored.
    • 10 success factors and 39 total items are measured.
    • Especially useful as part of a team building session or a team intervention or for team leaders to understand where the team believes they have strengths.
  • Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI®)
    Method and Uses
    • The assessment provides insight into an individual’s typical response to conflict situations.
    Features
    • Available online and in hard copy.
    • 15 minutes to complete including scoring.
  • Diversity & Inclusion Profile
    Method and Uses
    • A multi-rater feedback instrument designed to provide input to leaders on how frequently they display behaviors that are inclusive such as Interpersonal Awareness, Business Acumen, Communication and Impact and Influence.
    Features
    • Most individuals can complete in under 30 minutes including open-ended questions.
    • Items can be tailored to company-specific inclusivity behaviors and values.
  • Training Needs Assessment
    Method and Uses
    • An online survey that ranks usefulness and current perceived skill of 29 common success points for most professionals in the workplace.
    • The needs assessment also captures role-specific needs, which managers populate based upon their own experience.
    Features
    • Designed for managers to complete on their own role or those of direct reports.
    • Can be tailored to capture demographic data that is relevant to your organization.
    • Results are compiled into top-line output reports, but raw data tables can also be provided.
  • Sales Call Simulation
    Method and Uses
    • A live, customized sales call simulation where an individual prepares for and manages a 30-minute sales call with a potential prospect.
    Features
    • Requires customization of customer scenarios and data sets.
    • Each participant receives a pre-work package, an invitation to the sales meeting, spends 30-minutes in the sales call, receives 30-minutes immediate feedback and a follow up report for reference, including an infographic on sales calls best practices.
    • Group summary of results are compiled and provided.
    We have extensive experience in developing sales professionals.

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PPS International Limited has a variety of assessments available to support your business.

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