The profiles-r-us.com web based assessment system

The profiles-r-us.com system aims to help individuals, teams and whole organizations to become better at diagnosis and targeting of their efforts (and the review of relative success after they have delivered the appropriate intervention).

We believe that proper diagnosis and focus or targeting is fundamental to organizational development effort in particular where the 'bench-strength' of people is the critical need and strategic effort in this area is critical to medium to long term success (in areas such as leadership, selection for key roles, creating a high performance culture, teamwork, etc.).

Whether assessments are used individually (in particular team situations) applied to a 'vertical slice' of employees or applied to people across the entire enterprise, in our view, their diagnostic capability allows the organization to quickly plan and prioritize and target its effort. This is proverbially to plan a 'rifle shot' rather than a 'scatter gun' approach. By utilizing such assessments on the Internet/Intranet, the significant additional advantage is that all results can be analyzed individually or aggregated in a multitude or ways to create rich collective data that can focus attention in key areas almost immediately. Over time, this database of information provides a highly sophisticated calibration system to assess whether real progress has been made (whether it relates to personal effectiveness, training, change, behavioral modification, culture shift, etc).

180 degree and 360 degree capability

It is no accident that more than twenty of the profiles/assessments currently included on the site offer 180 degree or full 360-degree capability. We clearly therefore believe that third party feedback is critical not only in areas such as leadership or management skills but across a range of subject areas (for either individuals or teams of people). As such, we see that our assessments offer the opportunity to gain deeper insights across a wide variety of topics (like quality or change management capability at an organizational level for example, or problem solving or stress handling capability for example, at an individual level.