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A presentation to
all my LinkedIn colleagues
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Our assessments will provide insight on your people potential,
what motivates them, their core strengths and limitations.
Add a high level of certainty to all of your people decisions.
Our mission statement
We provide people assessments
which empower businesses
to transform and improve the
performance of their employees
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30 60 56YEARS
At the forefront of
assessment innovation
for 30 years
COUNTRIES
Presence in
60 countries
LANGUAGES
Assessments available
in 56 languages
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50 00 97CONSULTANTS
50 locally based
consultants in the UK
STAFF
100 staff in the UK:
consultants, trainers,
occupational psychologists,
support staff
PERCENT
97% of clients
say they would
recommend us
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1.5 MILLION
250000 32000
ASSESSMENTS
Over 1.5 million assessments completed every year
USERS
250,000 trained Thomas users
worldwide
COMPANIES
We work with 32,000 companies
worldwide
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We work with over 32,000 companies
Who we work with
70% of the companies we work with are SMEs
27,000 SMEs 5,000 large companies
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You’ll get immediate impact
because our assessments are
Accurate
Straightforward to understand
Quick to use
With rapid results
You don’t need to be an expert
Our client service
teams will train you,advise you and provide
practical assistance
We have more locally
based consultants than
any other provider
What’s different about Thomas?
What’s different about Thomas?
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On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the
species who survive, nor the
most intelligent, but the ones
most adaptive to change
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We’ll help you to...
Our assessments will empower you to transform the performance
of your teams and your individuals – and deliver an immediate impact on your organisation.
Spanning the entire employee
lifecycle, from recruiting and
retaining staff, to developing and managing performance, our
assessments will give you a high
level of certainty in all of your people decisions.
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Why are successful executives successful? They seek more feedback on what they need to do to improve and perform better
Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. EichingerHuman Resource Management
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23-Corporate2011Recruit
The right hiring decision can have a huge impact on the performance of your team, function or line of business.
Get it wrong and you’re looking at a cost of up to 2.5 times the
individual’s salary. And the
disruption to your business and
your teams can be considerable.
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Our assessmentswill help you:
Identify the candidateswith an ideal fit
Speed up your
recruitment process
Make your selectiondecisions clearer
Hire people who willstay with your company
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With one in four employees stating they intend to leave their employer in the next12 months*, retaining staff is critical to delivering successin any organisation.
Get it right and you’re
delivering consistently on your business targets with a happy,
loyal workforce. Get it wrong
and you’re investing cash in
new recruits, and dealing withdisruption to the business.
*Source: PWC, Managing people in a changing world, key trends in human capital – a global perspective 2010
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Motivate your people
Ensure morale is high
Create engagement
Optimise performance
Reduce attrition
Our assessmentswill help you:
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Employers say they needto focus on leadership andfront-line people management in order to meet their business objectives over the next two years.*
But with training budgets under more pressure than ever, how do
you make sure your learning and
development investment counts?
*Source: CIPD Learning and Talent Development, annual survey report 2010
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Identify each individual’s exact areas for development
Give your training
more impact
Be a more effective
people manager
Transform the performance
of your teams and individuals
Our assessmentswill help you:
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On average, 80% ofmanagement time is spenton poor performers*. Butwith so little attentiondirected at top and goodperformers, how do youensure you’re investing theright amount of effort toget maximum results?
*Source: Tracey Jones, Head of Training, Thomas International
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Very quickly get an in-depth understanding of your people
Pinpoint why your people
do – and don’t – perform well
Manage your people
performance effectively
Free you up to focus your
time on adding real value to the business
Our assessmentswill help you:
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Professor Howard GardnerHarvard University
We all spend far too much time trying to remedy our weaknesses, rather than building on our strengths. Therefore knowing one’s weaknesses = strength
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Our process
Our assessments work together
to give you a full insight into what makes people successful
Core strengths
Motivation
Potential
Communication &
relationships
Skills & competencies
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Financial Times
We hire people for their technical
skills, however we fire them for
their behavioural faults
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What are this person’s
strengths and limitations?
How do they communicate?
Are they self-starters?
What motivates them?
How will they behaveunder pressure?
Will this person ‘fit’
with my organisation?
In just 8 minutes PPA provides an accurate insight into how people behave at work. It will answer questions such as:
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Identifying those with the most potential to lead and who can learn something differently requires a unique measurement – one that looks at learning agility
Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. EichingerHuman Resource Management
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23-Corporate2011GIA – aptitude & ability
GIA measures a person’s mental horsepower and gives you a prediction of their potential to grasp a new role or respond to training by answering questions such as:
Can this person think on their feet?
How adaptable is this person to
change?
Can they cope with the mental
demands of the job?
Could this person be a high flyer?
Is this person a problem solver?
To what extent can we develop this
person using training?
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Experienced business leaders rank
so-called ‘emotional intelligence’
capabilities as critical to the success
of today's leaders
San Francisco Business Times
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How aware is this person of their
strengths and limitations?
Do they modify their behaviour?
How do they react to pressure?
Can this person control their
impulses when under stress?
Do they excel at developing
relationships?
How self-motivated and adaptable
is this person?
TEIQue tells you how well your people understand their emotions, react to pressure, and manage relationships. It will answer questions such as:
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Other Thomas services
Other Thomas services
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VALUES &
CULTURE
LOCAL
CONSULTANTS
WORKING
STRENGTHS
We work within
clients’ values and
culture
Work with real people;
over 50 local consultantsExamine and identify
working strengths
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UNDERSTAND
YOUR BUSINESS
HR
METRICS
Consultants who understand
your business and its objectives
Help clients to
interpret and
improve HR
metrics
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After introducing Thomas Job and PPA into our recruitment process we immediately saw a better calibre of candidate at interview and our churn rate reduced by 50%.
Client testimonial
Bob TaylorManaging Director
As a result of improved recruitment,
retention and management practices, we have enjoyed good
company growth and stability. We
are regarded as a good company to work with and for, and are well
recognised within our industry.
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Using Thomas GIA has made a real difference to the quality of candidate we recruit. At final interview we are seeing candidates who have better communication skills, understand more quickly and are keen to learn.
Client testimonial
Sarah BensonUK National ResourcingTeam
Our aim is to recruit candidates who
perform optimally within our organisation and thus help drive
company profitability. Using GIA has
made a significant contribution to that goal.
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The merger enabled us to double our size, integration and cultural transition were the key words.
Client testimonial
Ed MossCEO
We wanted our people to make a positive contribution to the business
and to do this we needed to bring out
the best in them and maximise their potential. Thomas’ assessments
helped all staff in the Group to
understand the way they and their team members worked, increased
their self-esteem and improved their
confidence.
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Emotional intelligence makes the difference between good and great leaders.
Client testimonial
Linda WatsonSenior Consultant
The key to great leadership is working with and through people rather than
adopting a directive, finger pointing
style. I use Thomas’ assessments to
get a full picture of the individual’s work based behavioural preferences
and emotional intelligence. This helps
pinpoint the areas that need attention, gives the best possible service to our
clients and produces results quickly.
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The profiles are invaluable insupporting the initial coachingdiagnostics and providing aftercoaching ‘proof’ that clients haveactually changed.
Client testimonial
Joe McGrathManagement &Technical SkillsDevelopmentManagerUsing Thomas' profiling as an opener to a
coaching intervention provides us many
benefits largely due to the profile accuracy being around 95%. The benefits include
insights for both client and coach on coaching
topics as well as helping to develop the client’s confidence in the coaching itself. The profiles
are invaluable in supporting the initial coaching
diagnostics and providing after coaching
"proof" that clients have actually changed.
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When we introduced Thomas profiling in 2005 our staff turnover was 29%, in 2008 it was 7% and we feel this is a clear indication of the success of Thomas’ profiling tools.
Client testimonial
Rupert WhitehouseSenior Manager, Customer RelationsFedEx Express Europe Inc, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent & Africa
Previously our recruitment success was, to
put it mildly, hit and miss...more miss than
hit! Managers used to feel they were the best interviewers in the world, however it wasn't
until we really understood what made the
candidate tick and understood their profiles that we were able to make truly informed
decisions on whether candidates would be
suitable for FedEx. I will continue to
recommend Thomas to anyone.
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We use Thomas Profiling in many areas of business. It gives us a broader picture of potential new team members, allowing us to make better recruitment decisions.
Client testimonial
Sue DaviesHead of Human Resources
We benefit by making more informed
decisions about candidate fit to our
business. We have also used Thomas Profiling in coaching and personal
development and it has given us great
benefits in raising people's self-awareness, which has improved our
managers' ability to lead teams.
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The Thomas tools help our people to communicate more effectively both with colleagues and clients…
Client testimonial
Sally ChacattePartner Head of Human Resources
Working with Thomas makes our
recruitment process more robust and objective but the benefits go far
beyond that. The Thomas tools help
our people to communicate more effectively both with colleagues and
clients to form an important part of our
development programmes.
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We have seen an improvement in the speed and quality of our people’s development.
Client testimonial
Philip YouellChief Executive
We have used the Thomas Profiling to assist us with the selection and development of our senior people for
more than five years. In that time we have
seen an improvement in the speed and quality of our people’s development.
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A very valuable product...over the past year especially.
Client testimonial
Sarah CarterDivisional Head
Thomas International PPA has
proved a very valuable product to Austin Benn over the past year especially, with proactive and
comprehensive advice and
guidance always at hand.
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Our experience using Thomas Profiling is that they are vital tools for supporting these processes. The results are consistent…
Client testimonial
Chris ThorneCommercial Director
Recruitment and staff development has always
been part art, part science. The instincts of the
interviewer or manager will always play a vital
part in decision making. Our experience using
Thomas Profiling is that they are vital tools for
supporting these processes. The results are
consistent and most often reassure us we have
assessed a candidate correctly. They help
equally with planned staff reviews and often
provide insight into issues that may otherwise
remain undiscovered and unresolved.
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