Assessing Your Organization for Team Strength

Does you have experience assessing experienced, on-board employees to determine current skill level, then using this information to identify candidates for termination, transfer, or training? What process(es) did you use to assess your internal people?

The Team Doc Says…

I worked with an organization to accomplish a similar objective. Although the company’s intent was not to terminate, it was to validate skills of the organization and determining employee training needs. It was a long process.

First we identified the core business, followed by core skills and then grouped those into job classifications.

Then for each skill, a standard assessment was created identifying criteria that validated the skill level as achieved.

Finally, a team of three internal experts was identified for each skill. These experts validated each employees skill level. It was a fair and valuable process.

No one lost any pay, but many gained. And many identified opportunities for improvement. A few employees left because this initiative was intertwined with a major culture change and they just didn’t fit any more.

The organization accomplished its objective and met staffing goals purely through attrition.

It wasn’t easy, but it worked.

Best regards,

Denise O’Berry
aka ‘Team Doc’