Assessments


Insights4Results is certified in a variety of assessments that are part of our tool box we consider when exploring your needs to find the best solution for your organization or achievement of your individual goal. Each Assessment is described and sample reports are included for your review and consideration.

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We offer customized 360 degree assessments individualized to fit your organizational culture, competencies, and strategy.

We work with organizations to customize their key leadership competencies to assure their supervisors, managers and leaders are receiving feedback on the competencies that are most important to the organization's current and future success.

We are a licensed provider of the "EQ 360" assessments, which provide a more in-depth analysis of Emotional Intelligence. When observer ratings are compared with the results of an EQ-i 2.0 self-report, a more complete 360 degree profile emerges. The EQ 360 identifies key manager and/or employee strengths that can be leveraged to the benefit of the organization, as well as impediments to high performance that could be improved.

Clear Alignment with EQ-i 2.0

One important change that was requested was a better alignment between the EQ-i and the EQ 360. In the new EQ 360, each of the 133 assessment items has a corresponding and equivalent item in the EQ-i 2.0. In addition, the EQ 360 reports are now set up in such a way that participants can view the results for each item across all rater groups; this even includes their self-report results. This improved alignment creates higher face validity because the results can be much more easily understood and reports better interpreted. And, of course, the new EQ-i 2.0 model also applies to EQ 360.

EQ 360 Report

The new EQ 360 Report includes not only the feedback of all the raters, but also the feedback of the participant - all in one consolidated report in both and client and coach's version. This saves the participant time and effort in working through multiple reports.

"There is no more effective way to empower people than to see each person in terms of his or her strengths."

Don Clifton, Father of Strengths Psychology and Inventor of CliftonStrengths, has provided an assessment which allows everyone to discover where their strengths lie in order to maximize their true potential. This strengths-based approach to management and leadership powers the greatest teams in the world’s most successful organizations every day.

The sign of a Strength is: Strength = Talent + Knowledge + Skill + Practice

Benefits of Knowing Your Strengths

  • Six times as likely to be engaged at work
  • 7.8% more productive in their role
  • Three times as likely to have an excellent quality of life
  • Six times as likely to do what they do best every day

It isn’t until people know what makes them talented and unique that they know how to perform better in their job. Or how to find one that’s a better fit. And to build better relationships and be a better teammate. And to feel like they’re improving, every single day.

Research from Gallup

  • People who use their strengths every day are six times more likely to be engaged on the job.
  • Teams that focus on strengths every day have 12.5% greater productivity.

What is a Talent?

There are hundreds of different talents:

  • Being orderly, timely
  • Good with numbers
  • Being charming
  • Picking up the emotions of others
  • Knowing how to make others laugh

A talent is a naturally recurring pattern of thought, feeling or behavior that can be productively applied.

One Assessment to Discover the One True You

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We are a certified provider of the DiSC assessments which identify individual competencies, revealing how best to align team members for optimal collaboration.

Everything DiSC® Management teaches managers how to bring out the best in each employee. It is classroom training that uses online prework, engaging facilitation with contemporary video, and online follow-up to create a personalized learning experience.

Key Focus Areas

  • Your DiSC Management Style
  • Directing and Delegating
  • Motivation
  • Developing Others
  • Working with Your Manager

Everything DiSC Management is the most in-depth and easily customizable DiSC®-based management-training solution available. Management-specific, personalized content creates an in-depth learning experience. Modular design and online tailoring features allow you to design a customized program that’s right for your organization.

In-depth Report

An all-new, in-depth report format offers a research-validated online assessment with a 26-page management-specific report that helps managers understand themselves, their employees, and their bosses.

Customization Options

  • Remove or rearrange pages
  • Customize the report title
  • Print selected sections

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The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team combines the power of Everything DiSC® with the influential teamwork model introduced by Patrick Lencioni in his best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. The program can help team members learn to work together better to become more effective and engaged. It is appropriate for use with intact teams at all levels of the organization.

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Facilitation Modules

  • Getting Started: Includes information and guidelines for the sessions
  • Module 1 - Introduction: Introduces The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team model
  • Module 3 - Building Trust: Teaches the concept of vulnerability-based trust
  • Module 3 - Mastering Conflict: Helps participants understand the benefits of healthy conflict
  • Module 4 - Achieving Commitment: Shows how clarity and buy-in are key to achieving commitment
  • Module 5 - Embracing Accountability: Stresses the importance of peer-to-peer accountability
  • Module 6 - Focusing on Results: Emphasizes that collective results are more important than individual goals
  • Module 7 - Review and Action Plan: Allows participants to review what they’ve learned and create an action plan to improve the team’s effectiveness

In the facilitation, each module builds on the previous one, helping participants see how each behavior serves as a foundation for the next. Exercises within each of the modules give participants an opportunity to begin practicing the behaviors.

Further, DiSC® styles are used as a point of reference in each of the five behavior modules, allowing participants to see how their own and their teammates’ styles affect their work as a team.

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HeartMath® Stress Reduction

HeartMath® is a set of tools you can quickly master that can reduce your stress RIGHT NOW and you can rapidly learn to sustain the feeling and health benefits of less stress in your life. It can improve your work performance, repair and deepen personal relationships and communication using tools and techniques that can increase your emotional intelligence. These tools have been shown scientifically to bring numerous health benefits and allow you to bring your heart, your mind, and your life into balance.

Downloadable Resources

Susan Curtin is a certified HeartMath provider, including the Cut-Thru technique. She can work with you one-on-one with utilizing this amazing technology. HeartMath® is a set of tools you can quickly master that can reduce your stress- RIGHT NOW and you can rapidly learn to sustain the feeling and health benefits of less stress in your life.

Results That Count

  • Feel better more often
  • Boost your performance
  • Find more work/life balance
  • Expand your flexibility and resilience
  • Enhance your decision making and creativity
  • Refine your communication skills
  • Strengthen your personal and professional relationships
  • Reverse the negative impact stress is having on your health, work, and quality of life
  • Improve school performance, test scores, and grades

Scientific Results

HeartMath® is the only scientifically validated system of stress intervention techniques and objective biometric feedback that quantifiably - and dramatically - boosts the health and performance of individuals and organizations.

Nearly 1,400 people at six global companies showed the following results were sustained after six months after taking HeartMath® training:

  • 60% reduction in anxiety
  • 45% reduction in exhaustion
  • 41% reduction in intent to leave the job
  • 24% improvement in the ability to focus
  • 25% improvement in listening ability
  • 17% improvement in home/work conflict

HeartMath® Training

Learn the HeartMath® easy-to-learn, easy-to-use tools and technology with Susan Curtin who is a licensed HeartMath Provider. You'll receive personalized instruction and become skilled in basic HeartMath techniques including Freeze-Frame®, Heart Lock-In®, and Heart Mapping®. You'll receive your own personal HeartMath workbook to help you focus on the effective integration and application of HeartMath's techniques to the area of your life where you want the most benefit. You'll learn how to measure your progress and physiological changes with the Freeze-Framer™ software technology.

Hogan Assessments for Leadership

We are a certified provider of the Hogan assessments which offers information regarding the characteristics, competencies, and values that underlie how a leader approaches work, leadership, and interaction with others in the workplace.

Leadership Forecast Series

The Hogan Leadership Forecast Series includes four development-focused reports based on Hogan’s trademark assessments:

Hogan Reports

  • Potential: Outlines day-to-day leadership style, behaviors, competencies, and development recommendations.
  • Challenge: Describes leader behavior under stress and predicts career-derailing behaviors.
  • Values: Explores core values that drive a leader's behavior and aspirations.
  • Coaching: Self-guided development-planning tool integrating information from other reports into a five-step planning process.

Hogan EQ Report

The Hogan EQ Report assesses emotional intelligence and provides overall EQ score, emotional competencies scores, and feedback for professional growth.

HoganLead

HoganLead is the product of decades of research, theory, and market experience used to identify the qualities of top leaders. It evaluates potential and fosters the growth necessary to guarantee future success.

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Created by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner in the early 1980s and first identified in their internationally best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. After conducting hundreds of interviews, reviewing thousands of case studies, and analyzing more than two million survey questionnaires to understand those times when leaders performed at their personal best, there emerged five practices common to making extraordinary things happen.

The Five Practices are:

The Five Practices

The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) instrument is an essential tool to help you gain perspective into how you see yourself as a leader, how others view you, and what actions you can take to improve your use of The Five Practices, which research has demonstrated, year after year, make for more effective leaders.

The LPI measures the frequency of 30 specific leadership behaviors on a 10-point scale, with six behavioral statements for each of The Five Practices.

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Certification

Consultants, Training and Organization Development Professionals can get certified in the Managing4Results™ system to deliver this program with their current and future clients. The Certification process is an eLearning certification program and once completed provides the Consultant with the Leaders Guide, Participant Guide and Power Point Deck.

Licensing

The Managing4Results™ license can be purchased by a Company or Organization to deliver a standardized training program for all Supervisors, Managers and Leaders. It includes a Coaching Model, Coaching Skills Assessment and Coaching Resources to ensure Coaching is provided to develop and retain talent. The license includes the delivery of a Train the Trainer for the Company or Organizations internal trainers who will deliver the training to existing, newly hired or promoted supervisors, managers and leaders.

Coaching and Development is an investment in employees for the long-term benefit of the organization. It is a strategic investment in winning – developing continuous learners who adapt to change, meet current and future demands, and outperform customer expectations. Contact Insights4Results to discuss pricing.

Objectives

As a result of program participation, participants will be able to accelerate results and improve productivity with their ability to:

  • Identify coaching vs. training or counseling
  • Identify the 6 Employee States and implement the 12 Managerial Behaviors
  • Apply the LASER coaching model for a repeatable and consistent development conversation
  • Apply the tools of EQ, Trust, Behavioral Style and motivators in coaching for peak performance
  • Form and develop more engaged and productive relationships

In addition, this program will help managers build stronger relationships with their direct reports through giving constructive feedback, coaching, and communicating messages about compensation that will truly motivate and enable teams to achieve great results.

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Susan Curtin is a certified provider of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment. The Myers-Briggs assessment provides the tools you need to help your people better understand individual differences, including easy-to-read graphic descriptions of reported type, preferences, and characteristics.

Step I™ (Form M)

Step II™ (Form Q)

  • Download Step II Interpretive Report: Comprehensive report that explores the variation within a client’s personality type.
  • MBTI® Step II™ Profile: Explores 20 facets of the four-letter types for more in-depth understanding.

Report Results

The information you need—in a user-friendly, narrative format—to conduct an interpretation of a client’s MBTI results. A range of reports support your specific goals.

Step I™ (Form M) Reports

  • MBTI® Interpretive Report: Summarizes MBTI results concisely yet thoroughly.
  • MBTI® Interpretive Report for Organizations: Summarizes leadership, communication, and problem-solving styles.
  • MBTI® Team Report: Describes a group’s type and its related problem-solving and conflict management styles.
  • MBTI® Communication Style Report: Describes communication strengths, offers practical tips for communicating with others and action steps.
  • MBTI® Conflict Style Report: Helps individuals understand how their MBTI type preferences influence their approach and response to conflict and provides them with a framework for dealing with conflict situations more effectively.
  • MBTI® Stress Management Report: Describes the impact of stress on personality characteristics and provides tips for leveraging strengths to deal with stress effectively.

Step II™ (Form Q) Report

  • MBTI® Step II™ Interpretive Report: Comprehensive report that explores the variation within a client’s personality type.

We are a certified provider of the Strength Deployment Inventory assessments which predicts how individuals will react in certain situations. Especially when conflict arises, knowing the team's SDI can help managers prepare for difficult and challenging situations.

About Susan Curtin, Certified SDI Provider

Susan Curtin is a certified SDI provider. The SDI® (Strength Deployment Inventory®) is a valid and reliable tool for managing conflict and improving relationships. It is based on the theory of Relationship Awareness®— a learning model for identifying and understanding the motivation behind behavior.

Download the SDI Brochure

The SDI is really 2 assessments in 1. Participants answer two sets of items to calculate the relative frequency of different motivations when things are going well and when faced with conflict. Results appear on a charting triangle as an arrow representing the participant’s unique Motivational Value System AND Conflict Sequence.

Benefits of the SDI:

  • Easy to remember
  • Enhances ability to communicate more effectively
  • Enhances ability to handle conflict more productively
  • Improves all types of relationships (home, work, school, social, or otherwise)
  • Easy to integrate into training applications where productive relationships are important
  • Over 35 years of applied use
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The HeartMath Institute developed this comprehensive assessment tool to help people more fully understand how twelve aspects of their life (work, relationships, finances, social support, etc.) affect their levels of stress and well-being. To establish a reference baseline, the assessment was normed on over 1500 individuals. Taking the assessment will help you pinpoint how you rank in each of the twelve aspects and how these factors influence your stress and well-being. It may prove valuable in helping you and your provider (coach, mentor, counselor, etc.) decide on specific aspects of your life that you might wish to set improvement goals for.

You can complete the assessment and I will contact you to share your results. We can set up an action plan on how to manage any areas of Stress that might be interfering with your health and wellbeing. There will also be an opportunity to re-take the assessment 6 weeks later to compare your results and note your progress in any of the 12 areas that you identified to work on.

Contact me to complete the assessment
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The Thinking Pattern Profile is built on a methodology that directly measures actual talent. It measures competency quickly and easily and accurately. And it is quietly being used by some of the best companies to close the performance gap.

Download the Thinking Pattern Profile Brochure
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It shows what a person pays attention to as they make decisions --- and also what they don't pay attention to. Therefore it provides a helpful indicator of the sources of a person's strengths and vulnerabilities.

Why the Thinking Pattern Profile:

Thoughts direct actions, and actions lead to results and feelings. New results come from new actions which are generated because of new thinking.

Thus the understanding of one's thinking style and process is the key to harnessing this power to achieve continuous improvement and excellent results. The Thinking Pattern Profile provides this understanding as no other instrument can.

What the Thinking Pattern Profile Measures:

Because it measures the pattern of decision-making which the person uses when processing information about the world and themselves, the Thinking Pattern Profile empowers both individuals and groups to identify strengths and blocks relating to the:

  • People with whom they must work
  • Tasks they are to perform
  • Environment in which they work
  • Inner capacities involving confidence and self-esteem

In short, the Thinking Pattern Profile™ system measures the capacity, clarity, and balance that individuals and groups have regarding people, tasks, systems and themselves.