• Caliper Profile

• Caliper Profile User's Guide

• Hiring Workshop

• Interview Guide

• Individual Developmental Guide

• Action Learning for Leadership Development

• Uncovering Talent & Potential

• Developing Your People Workshop

• Development Programs for Women Leaders

• Job Analysis & Competency Modeling

• Client Education Workshops

• Executive Coaching

This scientific, in-depth employee personality assessment is validated by nearly a half-century of research and measures over twenty-five personality traits that relate to job performance. Our consultants analyze those traits in a variety of combinations to advise you on: hiring someone new; improving employee performance; building more effective teams; and, working to take your company to the next level. It can be taken online or in paper format, and provides clear, objective information on an individual's strengths, limitations, motivations and potential. Since it was first developed, the Profile has undergone continuous refinement, and ranks today as one of the most advanced tools for matching personality to job performance.

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The First Step for Sales is currently for use in the insurance and automotive industries, as well as with large companies, where we help you develop an ideal profile of your top performers.

The First Step for Service is a screening instrument expressly designed to tell you whether candidates have the empathy, desire to please and conscientiousness needed to succeed in customer service and similar support positions.

After using these screeners to narrow your field of promising candidates, you also have the opportunity for these individuals to take The Caliper Next Step which will provide you with deeper insights into their work style, motivations and potential for advancement.

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Hiring Top Performers
In-depth Assessment
With our extensive database of the qualities needed for success in virtually any position, and our valid, accurate and in-depth personality assessment, the Caliper Profile, our consultants are able to help you make the best hiring decisions for your company. We can show you who has the greatest potential to succeed in your current opening as well as point out an individual's potential for growth and advancement. You will understand what motivates individuals, how they will get along with team members and managers and how their personality traits translate to job performance.

We can also help you discover the specific qualities that distinguish your most successful employees and develop a success model that you can use as a guide for hiring people who share those same qualities. This guide will enable you to see how promising candidates measure up to your top performers.

And, if you need to start by clarifying job requirements, rewriting job descriptions or revamping your interview process, we've got the tools you need.

Applicant Screening
Our quick, online screening assessment, the Caliper First Step, will help you eliminate candidates who do not have the qualities needed to succeed and show you which candidates have the most potential for success.

Hiring Workshops
In this hands-on, comprehensive workshop, our consultants will bring clarity and consistency to your hiring process.

We will help you better understand the positions you are seeking to fill and determine the qualities needed for success in your company. You will learn techniques for attracting quality applicants and gain insights into structuring an initial interview, probing into areas of concern during a follow-up interview and, ultimately, weighing your decision in an objective manner, so that you hire the best possible candidates. These workshops can be customized to fit your firm's specific needs.

Hiring Workshop

Success Model
How can you hire more people like your top performers? First and foremost, you have to know the qualities that distinguish your most successful employees.

We are able to pinpoint the qualities shared by people currently succeeding by conducting a validation study on incumbents in the position. This enables us to develop a customized success model, which becomes a guide for hiring people who share those same qualities. As a result, you will be able to see how promising candidates measure up to your top performers and identify those who have the potential to succeed.

Interview Guides
Based on the results of the Caliper Profile, our consultants will provide interview questions that help you explore those areas that might cause concern.

For instance, if the Profile shows that someone might be too impulsive and not very open to others' ideas, the Interview Guide will direct you to ask questions like, "Tell me about a challenge you have faced and what options you considered as possible solutions. What were the key factors that contributed toward making your final decision?" The answers to these questions can either confirm your concerns or provide you with insights into how the individual has learned to work around possible shortcomings.

Interview Guide

Job Analysis and Competency Models
Without an accurate, up-to-date analysis of your key jobs and the competencies needed to succeed, it is impossible to hire effectively.

Our in-depth job analyses and competency models provide you with a clear understanding of the responsibilities of a particular position, while outlining reporting relationships and establishing clear standards of performance. We will help you identify the key outcomes, skills, personality qualities and critical competencies that an ideal candidate needs to possess in order to succeed with your organization. With our job analysis, you will be in a far better position to recruit, interview, train, supervise, evaluate and manage your employees.

Job Analysis and Competency Models

Validation Studies
Conducting a validation study allows us to scientifically link Caliper Profile results to the expected outcomes and tasks required for success in a role. This will significantly enhance your ability to hire the best candidates for the role, as well as focus specifically on closing the gaps between potential and performance that exist in your company's current workforce. Additionally, conducting a validation study provides the opportunity to collect performance data related to your company's goals and tie it directly to our services. This will enable you to clearly see the return on investment realized by partnering with Caliper.

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Action Learning
With Action Learning, organizations solve critical and complex problems while simultaneously building strong leaders—in real time. This form of “learning by doing” has enabled companies to develop innovative new products and services; create operational efficiencies; and improve quality, service and organizational culture—all while saving money. While most leadership development programs focus on a single dimension, in an environment where there are no real consequences for mistakes, Action Learning is different in that it delves into every aspect of true leadership, in a real-life setting.

Action Learning for Leadership Development

Coaching
Whether you are interested in Executive Coaching, High-Potential Development or Coaching for Improved Business Performance, our in-depth comparison of Caliper Profile results and actual job performance enables our consultants to provide specific recommendations for improvement. We work closely with you, creating action plans with definable goals, to make sure you are continuing to see desired results.

Developing Your People Workshop
In Caliper's Developing Your People Workshop, managers learn to use individualized motivation and coaching techniques to improve employee performance. By identifying employees' strengths and potential, managers can create the most effective, customized development plans to help employees deal with real challenges, make significant changes and sustain improved performance.

Developing Your People Workshop

High-Potential Employee Development
Pinpointing and developing high-potential employees is the main ingredient to ensuring your organization's continued success. Whether it's preparing them for a high-level role or helping them take on more responsibilities, acknowledging your top performers will help you retain valuable employees and set them—and your company—up for future success. Caliper can work with you to discover the competencies necessary for success in your organization, to conduct Three Sixties to determine who has leadership potential and to begin development programs so your high-potential employees are ready take on more responsibility when you need them to.

Uncovering Talent & Potential

Individual Developmental Guide
Based on insights from the Caliper Profile, this report is written as a guide to help individuals fully develop their performance potential.

Practical developmental suggestions are provided to help employees better understand their key motivations, build on their strengths and learn how to make behavioral changes that can help them work more effectively with others.

Individual Developmental Guide

Leadership Development
Caliper's unique approach to leadership development includes the Caliper Profile, which allows us to begin with a deep understanding of a leader's motivations, strengths and development needs. With nearly a half-century of extensive research into the dynamics of successful leaders, we are able to assist organizations in identifying and developing the leadership potential of its current and future leaders, regardless of their present role. We can take several approaches based on the needs of the individuals, teams and organization, including Individual Professional Coaching, Management Development Programs (for new or mid-level managers) and Action Learning Programs (for high-potential and senior leaders). Our goal is to help leaders maximize their potential and, in turn, help companies achieve greater organizational results.

Development Programs for Women Leaders

Action Learning for Leadership Development

Performance Management
To reach anticipated targets, you must be able to tie the performance and motivation of individuals to your overall strategic objectives.

Essential to our approach is delivering an objective, consistent and effective system for measuring and monitoring performance. We integrate an understanding of individual motivations with clear expectations and open lines of communication, so that everyone knows what is expected of them, that they are being evaluated fairly and in the context of your organization's goals and that results are on track.

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Integration of New Teams and Team Leaders
To help each participant maximize his or her role on the team, Caliper uses surveys, interviews and the Caliper Profile, an in-depth personality assessment. These tools allow individuals to fully understand the team environment and identify both their strengths and their developmental opportunities. The results from the Caliper Profile provide objective information about the interactive dynamics among individuals on your team.

Caliper Team Building Program

Team Analysis
A Team Analysis provides objective information about the strengths and development needs for individual team members and the team as a whole. Understanding the “chemistry” of the team helps explain how the interactions among team members support or impede the team's success.

Caliper Team Building Program

Building Effective Teams
Success in team building is measured in two ways: by keeping conflicts down and performance up. Whether you have a team that's encountering problems or one that is newly formed and unaware of each other's strengths, everyone must be clear about the team's goals and each member's role in achieving those goals.

Caliper Team Building Program

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Attitude Surveys
This objective gauge of key issues—such as communications, compensation and management effectiveness—gives us a true read on whether your firm's plans and actions are having the desired effect.

Client Education Workshops
If you've assessed your top performers with the Caliper Profile, you already have a wealth of information at your fingertips. And the more fully you understand it, the greater your opportunities to put it to work for you. Caliper offers a one-day workshop that teaches you how to interpret the Caliper Profile results and understand how personality really impacts performance.

Client Education Workshops

Executive Coaching
Whether you are interested in Executive Coaching, High-Potential Development or Coaching for Improved Business Performance, our in-depth comparison of Caliper Profile results and actual job performance enables our consultants to provide specific recommendations for improvement. We work closely with you, creating action plans with definable goals, to make sure you are continuing to see desired results.

Executive Coaching Brochure

Customized Consulting
Caliper's consulting services are designed to help you take individuals, teams and your organization to higher levels of performance.

Succession Management
Studies reveal that a staggering sixty-six percent of senior managers hired from the outside fail within the first eighteen months. So, the time to start thinking about who will replace top executives in your organization is now—and the key to success is to have a pool of internal candidates who are ready to step up when the need arises. Caliper's Succession Management Program can help you assess your business strategy and find and develop talented leaders within your own company to drive that strategy, support your values and successfully support the future of your organization.

Caliper Succession Planning

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