AMA’s Assessment Tools

Do you have the right people in place?

And how will you support them to ensure their success?

These are the questions smart managers are asking today. AMA has answers.

Our Professional Services portfolio of assessments and survey instruments is designed to help you assess your talent management needs. Developed with the highest standards of reliability and validity these tools can help you:

  • Guide your succession planning decisions
  • Focus your training investments on areas with the highest returns
  • Leverage your talent pool to your best competitive advantage
  • Develop leaders at every level of the organization
  • Build leadership bench strength where it counts the most

And, since all our tools are available online, they’re easy to administer and deliver fast results.

Here is a brief look at AMA’s assessment tools:

AMA DISC Survey AMA 360° Feedback AMA’s Talent Management Assessment System
Audience All employees Executives, managers All employees
Focus Individuals Top/middle management Individuals and Teams
Purpose Accurately assesses the work-related behavior styles of employees Management development
Organizational development
Analyzes participants’ strengths and weaknesses, and how others perceive them		 Measures employee potential for success around specific, validated job profiles, creates targeted development plans to ensure success, and guides your training investments.
Benefits

Gives immediate feedback about the personal styles of each employee

Improves the impact, value and ROI of every training activity Helps to justify training expenditures


Broadens awareness of participants’ own behavior

Gives feedback on hard-to-measure skills

Follow-up survey measures behavioral improvement

Ensures that your talent succeeds

Reduces turnover by placing the right people in the right jobs

Uncovers critical training needs

Identifies skill gaps for low performers

Identifies high potentials for leadership development

Creates the basis for reliable succession planning
Features

Meets APA and AERA standards for reliability and validity

Minimizes contamination in responses

Feedback on productive and counterproductive styles

Includes guide for improvement planning

Only 360° tool to be validated on 150 million responses

Competency-based

Concurrent validity, i.e., it correlates with career success

Web-based tool meets highest security and ease-of-use standards

Proven track record of increasing productivity per individual employee from 30 to 35%

Averages 85% accuracy in correctly identifying high potentials

30-year database of more than 300,000 sales, management and specialist positions

Extensive criteria-based validity studies (>300)

Expert advisory board of leading statisticians, expert witnesses, assessment researchers and authors
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