Small and Medium Business Offerings

  • Are you hiring the right people to meet your business objectives?
  • How do your employees address the unique nuances and challenges of a small business?
  • Are you concerned about losing your best people to bigger competitors?
  • Are you committed to developing your workforce?

Talent Quest Small to Medium Business (TQsmb) is a targeted offering for small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. The standardized TQsmb software applications provide built in best practices for selecting, managing and developing your best employees.

By blending our consultancy services with our software solutions, TalentQuest provides a comprehensive, solid framework to optimize both individual performance and organizational goals. The system offers predefined benchmarks for improved selection, predefined performance review forms for consistent evaluations and the critical skills and behaviors necessary for success.

The TQsmb software suite offers the following standardized modules to small and medium businesses:

Selection Assessments

The TQ selection assessments are based on the 16PF, one of the most widely researched personality theories and the most widely used in a business setting.

Advantages include:

  • Improve hiring decisions
  • Decrease turnover and increase performance throughout the company
  • Compare candidates to benchmarks of top performers in given roles
  • Rank order candidates based on a proprietary “Fit Index”
  • Determine other "potential" positions for success
  • Use for coaching/development

Standardized assessment profiles are available for the following positions:

  • HR
  • Manager
  • Sales (manager, inside, outside, technology, services)
  • Customer Service
  • Project Manager
  • Network Administrator
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Account Manager
  • Engineer
  • Staff Accountant

Objectives Management

Advantages Include:

  • Defining clear, measurable goals at each level of the organization
  • Aligning organizational goals with business unit goals and individual performance objectives.
  • Creating unity of purpose as an organization
  • Communicating objectives across organization easily and clearly

Performance Appraisals and 360 Surveys

Advantages Include:

  • Ability to clearly set expectations, align goals, and measure performance:
    • Goals (performance & developmental)
    • Competencies (skills & behaviors)>
    • Comments boxes
    • Overall rating/score
    • Year Round Performance Journal
  • Company wide report features:
    • Rank order employees on overall rating
    • Top/bottom X%
    • Strongest/Weakest competencies

Predefined Forms are available for the following levels of your company:

  • Executive
  • Manager
  • Individual Contributor

This unique solution was carefully developed incorporating best practices and data from small businesses across the country who shared similar talent management needs and opportunities. The completely, paperless, web-based SaaS solution will result in:

  • Increased efficiency
  • Increased accountability
  • Increased visibility
  • Decreased cost & administrative time
  • A legally defensible, highly reliable and valid assessment method

This robust, high-value solution is ideal for entrepreneurial companies as well as professional service businesses such as law firms, CPA firms, consulting firms and the banking industry. The solutions are affordable, content rich, and available for immediate implementation.

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