Hire Tough, Manage Easy with PXT Select Reports

What are the ways companies try to predict success in their hiring?  From an applicant’s resume they may learn: career history, job experience, technical knowledge, and potential references.  From the interview process, they hope to understand the applicant’s: thinking style, extent of technical skills, true job knowledge, problem solving skills, and typical behavior traits.  Following this, they hope for a good selection process to match the right candidate to the correct job.

What is the company had a better way of doing interviews that could insure a better selection process?  In a previous post, you learned that PXT Select assessment could be required by each candidate for the job position.  Once multiple candidate assessments are complete, management and human resources gain access to a range of reports that can used for the selection process, as well as other purposes after the hiring is complete.  Below is a list of the PXT Select reports and what is contained in each.

 

PXT Select Position and Single Candidate Reports

Report Name	Results Summary or Definition	Performance Model	Interview Questions or Ideal Candidate
Comprehensive Selection	Candidate’s Results from the assessment compared to the Performance Model	Range of scores typical for success in the position, with scale and job fit interpretations	Series of personalized Questions based on the candidate’s fit to the Performance Model
Performance Model (for position)	Definition of each of the styles and traits	Range of scores typical for success in the position	Statement describing the Ideal Candidate for this position will appear for each style and trait

 

PXT Select Single Employee Reports

Report Name	Definitions	Feedback or Results
Individual’s Feedback	Each of the styles, traits, and interests that were measured by the assessment will be defined	Personalized Feedback based on results and how they should be interpreted
Individual’s Graph	Each of the styles, traits, and interests that were measured by the assessment will be defined after Results	Results will be summarized on scales for Thinking Style, continua for Behavioral Traits, and a ranked-order list for Interests

 

PXT Select – Multiple Placement Comparison Reports

Report Name	Performance Models	Candidate Fit	Comparison or %Fit
Multiple Positions (1 Candidate to Many)	Range of scores typical for success in each position	Candidate’s results from the assessment compared to the Performance Models	The candidate’s Overall Fit for each of the positions
Multiple Candidates (Many to 1 Position)	Range of scores on each scale typical for success in the position	Each candidate’s results from the assessment compared to the Performance Models	Candidates  results for each scale are placed together for easy Comparison

 

PXT Select – Misc. Management Reports

Report Name	Results	Feedback	Definitions, Reflection, or Action
Coaching (1 to 1)	Assessment results are compared to the Performance Model, which show the range of score typical for success in the position	Feedback personalized for the individual based on the results and how they should be interpreted	Thinking Style and Behavioral Traits will be Defined following the results summary
Manager-Employee (1 to 1)	Manager’s assessment results are compared to the employee’s on 9 different scales	Personalized feedback based on how manager‘s results compare to employee’s	Reflection includes quick review, questions to answer, and an action plan
Team	Each team member’s assessment results placed together on 9 behavioral scales	Feedback for each scale based on personal and team’s responses	Team averages and personalized tips for Action planning

 

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Hire Tough, Manage Easy: Use PXT Select for better hiring decisions

Did you know that companies report that 1 in 5 of their hires was a bad hire?   That means 20% of the people hired were not a good fit for the job where they were placed.  Another survey showed that just one bad hire in a position can cost a company $17K and another says for the 6-digit annual income level, a bad hire can lose a company as much as $250K.

Is there a better way to hire the right people for the position you have open?  According to a Fast Company article it primarily comes down to pre-hire assessments and proper onboarding.  So let us start to help you with hiring by introducing a new assessment tool called PXT Select by Wiley (the company that brought us DiSC and Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team). Wiley assessment solutions empower organizations by providing them with actionable data about the people they employ now and in the future.

What is PXT Select? PXT Select™ is an online hiring assessment designed to help you select the best candidates for your organization.  It contains selection and employee assessment tools to help organizations make smarter hiring decisions.  Simply put, PXT Select can make selecting the right candidate for a job both simpler and smarter. Having the right people in the right jobs fosters a culture of happier, more engaged, and more productive employees.

PXT Select allows your organization to:

• Fill in the gaps between a resume and interview with actionable objective data
• Identify the most suitable candidates, streamlining an effective hiring process
• Match candidates with jobs that fit their inherent capabilities
• Identify opportunities to enhance performance and maximize an individual’s contribution to an organization
• Produce several reports for management and HR use, powered by the latest in assessment technology

PXT Select will help your organization:

• Dramatically streamline your hiring process
• Minimize the risk of bad hires
• Reduce turnover
• Lower your hiring and training costs
• Add objective, data-driven metrics to your hiring process
• Drive noticeable improvements in your hiring results
• Boost employee engagement

Get the most out of this hiring solution with the custom, interactive online learning platform that will provide you with fun, essential learning. If you want to experience PXT Select, you will need to contact an Authorized Partner who can help you fit the assessment power to your unique needs.

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The Secret Formula to Sales Success

Before uncovering the secret formula, ask yourself these 3 questions and consider your answers:

• Competency – Are your Sales Representatives experienced amateurs or true sales professionals?
• Attitude – Why is it selling is the most rewarding profession in the world, yet we still bring up our kids to be Doctors, Lawyers and Indian Chiefs?
• Skills – Non-verbal communication represents 55% of communication, therefore, why is it most Sales Reps do not recognize buying or non-buying language?

At Peak Performance Solutions, we believe 3 factors are the formula for success.  These factors must be aligned to create a successful sales force that have a sales process that guarantees success.  The 3 factors for success were somewhat revealed in the questions above, these are: competency, attitude, and skills.

Sales success begins with Competency.  Do you have the right person in the right seat? Our competency based assessments allow you to peel the onion, and look at the layers behind the “handshake” and see if the person is fit to adapt to your particular sales process.   To do this well, leverage the power of the Self-Management Group’s hiring and coaching assessment.

If they have the competency, do they have the Attitude to do what it takes to form the habits of success? In other words, you can have someone with talent who chooses not to develop it.  Our in-depth planning model helps a sales rep focus on the key result areas and “keep the main thing, the main thing”. We proactively help sales reps forecast their sales and identify to the dollar what they have to do to meet their goals as well as adjust and adapt along the way.

Skills are where the good sales rep becomes a great one. Our sales training focuses on the tactical skills of communication that can be used in any aspect of life. There are no gimmicks in selling.  We teach fundamental, basic laws of communication and build it around the 5 steps to the sales cycle.

Our 5 step process that works for most sales includes:

1. Attention:  Get the prospect to like you, so they will listen to you.
2. Interest:  Identify prospects interest, while being interesting, so they will say, “Tell me more”.
3. Conviction: or Presentation and be prepared to answer the 4 questions every prospect asks in the buying process.
4. Desire:   A simple summary wrapping up all your facts and benefits eliminating confusion and the “I want to think about it” objection.
5. Close:  Asking for a decision only when they are ready to buy.

Prospecting, Time Management, DiSC buying and selling styles, and managing objections are part of each step and these must be mastered as well.

Sales Success Secret Formula = Competency + Attitude + Skills

If all three are present, then a master can coach their sales staff to success.    Although a manager can manage the habits, it takes a true master of selling and communication to be an effective coach. Someone who can read the story the activity numbers tell and then improve performance by practicing drill for skill and allowing the rep to form good habits that fit their style.

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