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HR - EMPLOYEE/JOB MATCH CYCLE™ PREP's Secret Sauce to Power Your Organization

The simplicity and power of the PREP Process has a ‘secret sauce ingredient’ that measures Personal Resiliency: how much of a person’s energy is available to accommodate stress and change…?!

This is the window into understanding how resiliency and stress impacts individuals, team behaviors, expectations and engagement.

If you have concerns about the impact of personal resiliency and/or stress on your organization, PREP Reports can support the process to keep tabs on unhealthy employee stress levels while enhancing and streamlining the recruiting and engagement process for your business.

For over 40 years, PREP has helped organizations and individuals match and map their career paths to mutually benefit each other, supporting healthy organizations and people.

Our insights and reports help managers and HR identify strengths, personal resilience and potential “fit” issues with candidates also through a uniquely designed behavioral interviewing easy-to-follow process. We can help both organizations and candidates clarify these key decisions in a conversational, respectful manner based on a people-centric, work-life balanced practical approach to recruiting, interviewing, hiring, engagement, coaching, teamwork and succession planning for long term work success.

 

HR - Employee/Job Match Cycle™

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Recruiting

Recruit to Match the Right Person for the Job

For deep Recruiting insights, hiring managers and professionals find the PREP Job Match Report essential to the Right Match.  Here are some key insights:
  • The candidate’s CORE Character style and likely behavior in the position
  • Comparison of how well the candidate’s profile matches the target profile
  • Candidate-specific interviewing questions with general target responses
  • Uncover key success factors not easily known through resumes, applications and typical recruitment tools …
  • Understanding the role of the Candidate and Supervisor’s current Personal Resilience to the long term Match and Success in the hiring process.
  • Practical behavioral description for how the candidate matches/ mismatches the target profile
  • Coaching guides to support the manager and new recruit to get to know each other quickly, respectfully to support the training and development needs.
  • Identify which work environments are most motivational to the candidate
  • Learn how to present more difficult tasks in a win-win approach.
  • Develop interview and reference questions best suited for the position.

Onboarding

Fast-Start, deeply Engage New Recruits

Employees agree that on-boarding  is successful when they feel understood, seen and belong in their new work environment.  Managers love on-boarding that shortens the new hire’s learning curve, engages their interest in the deeper mission and vision of the organization. The PREP Insights and Reports offer employees and supervisors that sweet-spot understanding of how the new recruits’ strengths can best be integrated, developed and supported for a  win-win.
Communication is a major component for on-boarding so the new employee feels welcomed and ready to engage with others on their team. PREP On-Boarding report brings key coaching insights with practical job-matching and understanding what makes your new recruits ‘light up’.  Not only is the New Recruit off to a good start, but  new team strengths build trust for greater future outcomes.

For On-boarding, the PREP Profile can:

  • Shorten new hire learning curves through understanding their needs
  • Provide managers with insight on how to best engage employee talent
  • Give employees a starting point for development plans, balancing work-life goals for all around success.

BUTTON – TO FAST TRACK

We’d love to demonstrate how PREP’s On-boarding reports and process can engage and create a fast-track sense of team and belonging to  enhance your organization’s chances of long term success, please contact us.

 

Training & Development

Inspired Employees are Self-Motivated to Learn and Grow!


It’s true that training is the responsibility of the organization to equip employees with the skills, knowledge and tools to excel in their work.  And, every teacher, trainer, manager, coach and parent will echo that when the individual wants to learn, it’s better, faster, more deep-seeded.  The secret?  Understand your employees – what is their ‘secret power’?  Their wish? How do feel acknowledged, inspired? PREP offers managers straight-forward insights into their employees.  With tangible tools for engaging them in the learning process, Training and Development taken on new dimensions.  You’ll understand how their personal resilience can be supported, expanded to enjoy what they do, how they work with others and engage more effectively to help you manage them better. For Employee Development, the PREP Profile reports can:
  • Assess change readiness, personal resilience and timing to optimize their learning curves
  • Help managers give effective feedback that inspires, not criticizes employees – creating a healthy, productive work environment
  • Provide a starting point for development plans
  • Encourage conversations between employees and managers that bring your groups together, reinforcing positives, addressing the challenges in a respectful manner
  • Provide coaching tools for leadership development and performance issues into opportunities for personal and team growth
Our reports are designed to be vetted, edited by the individual and then mutually shared within a trusted team,  manager or supervisor.  This is the beginning of developing Best Practices on teams and between employee and supervisor.  After 40 years and thousands of teams, ask us how PREP’s cumulative wisdom might enhance your Employee Development and Training programs.  It might be simpler than you think.

Leading

Optimizing Self-Inspired Team Leadership


PREP’s unique cross-cultural, inter-generational non-biased survey was created specifically to address the  sensitive edges in community, teams and organizations that can be at cross-purposes with healthy, productive work and life balance.  Since 1984, PREP has been supporting team building, healing, re-construction and success stories where teamwork wins time after time.  With individual team members understanding their own strengths and challenges, working one on one with others who differ in style, demographics, upbringing, the common feedback is how much more fun teams and work became.  The sense of humor and balance returned–the essence of PREP’s mission. A big part of that is based in the carefully selected wording for surveys, reports, charts.  Person by person, PREP’s vision, mission with its research and core values respect for inter-cultural/generational approaches focus on the synergy of self-inspired, high trust team leadership.  The feedback we get has validated and been woven into the PREP process it shares with clients, coaches, managers and HR professionals. Whether teams reside in different parts of the country, or different countries altogether, are Gen X, Gen Z, Millennial or Boomer-based,  PREP Insights and Reports give managers and their teams information on how to work together more effectively, respectfully, having more fun together and creating a healthy work environment. The PREP Profile helps team to self-inspired leadership by:
  • Strengthening teams by highlighting different work preferences
  • Providing insight on how team members can work together more effectively
  • Making it easier to discuss the different ways of working
  • Supports understanding of the impact of stress on individual team members so roles can be better shared and allocated to optimize overall team function and leadership.
Our team of consultants and coaches can help support and transform your organization’s team development initiatives.  Contact us for more details.

Evaluating

Succession Planning

Succession Planning is a two-way Evaluation of Career & Leadership Match
For many organizations, it is important to be proactive in succession planning so when one employee retires or leaves a role, there is someone else prepared to fill the position. Succession planning involves understanding what makes for a successful leader in your organization.  Do your organizational values, mission and vision match with your “high potentials” you want to fast-track?   Are they engaged and committed to the same goals your organization is? While individual training and development are part of filling the Org-Chart Succession Plan, that’s the overstory to the rich story beneath the surface.  When employees are engaged, have bought-into their role and work, an employer has a precious resource.  PREP can help identify how well your people resources are feeling about their situations – is their resilience optimal to engage and be part of your Succession Plan? PREP can help guide you to the conversations and insights you need to strengthen your people-resources.  Then, which role maps are optimal for which people, teams, groups inside your organization?   This type of preparation may take years to accomplish, but it begins with identifying and nurturing the right candidates within the organization.
The PREP Profile can help with Succession Planning by:
  • Preparing succession candidates for the next role by offering guidance on development areas and how to strengthen their personal resilience for the road ahead
  • Helping leaders and employees identify themselves and others in the treasure-hunt for high potential future leadership.
The PREP group reports can help an organization communicate through strengths and show how teams, timing, training and experience shape leaders and their teams. If your organization is looking at succession planning, contact us about how PREP can support and enhance your future leadership and success.