Strengths-Based Selection

Finding and keeping the right people has an enormous effect on your organization's financial performance. Poor selection practices -- and bad hires -- can disrupt even the best-run organizations through:

• lower personal productivity among dissatisfied employees
• workgroup productivity disruptions caused by dissatisfied employees
• outplacing low-performance employees
• attracting and selecting replacement personnel
• training new hires
• mistakes made by new hires
• lost productivity until new hires become proficient
• lost productivity among experienced employees
• stress and anxiety among experienced employees
• lost customers and decreased market share
• damage to your organization's brand image and position

To drive success, you must select people who have the potential to be top performers. That potential is based in each individual's talents.

Our Value
The Elements That Predict Performance

Gallup is an industry leader in developing innovative solutions that radically improve the way organizations source, select, and hire the best employees for their most crucial positions. Our research-based approach has been refined through more than 30 years of work with hundreds of successful organizations in a broad range of industries.

Skills, knowledge, experience, and talent should factor into the final hiring decision. Most organizations spend significant time and money measuring the first three. However, they do not devote the same level of resources to assessing the most important factor: an applicant's talents.

Gallup's highly refined, scientific approach to studying success reveals that top performers in any role exhibit similar talents -- recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that naturally equip them to excel in a role.

Identifying these talents and hiring people whose talents are similar to those of top performers are crucial steps toward achieving individual and organizational success.

Why Select for Talent?

• Speed: People operating from talents suited to the role are easier to manage, learn the role more quickly, and adapt more readily to variance in the role.
• Productivity and precision: People operating from their greatest talents are more productive, produce at higher quality, and exceed expectations.
• Longevity: People operating from their greatest talents stay longer, miss less work, and build stronger customer relationships.

The Benefits of Gallup's Approach

• reduced cost per hire
• accelerated recruitment and selection time
• accelerated ramp-up time and reduced interruption to work flow
• increased cultural fit and ability to perform to job performance expectations
• more consistent performance across business units
• increased per-person and team productivity
• reduced negative impact of poor hires on customer engagement, brand image, and reputation
• increased positive impact on crucial business outcomes, including profitability, productivity, health and safety, and turnover
• diminished risk of legal battles because the selection process and tools are legally defensible and scientifically sound

To learn how strengths-based selection science can help your organization achieve higher levels of performance, download the Strengths-Based Selection brochure (PDF) or contact us.