Sage Assessments Announces TADA: The Talent Assessment and Development Alliance

Feb. 29, 2012 - PRLog -- Sage Assessments, Inc. and H Weinstein & Associates and proud to announce their new affiliation. Together, the two firms will offer clients stronger and broader human capital assessment and talent development capabilities.

Firm principals Charley Morrow and Harold Weinstein expect their collaboration will lead to exceptional results for clients.

Charley has extensive leadership development experience, analytics expertise, and a strong background in survey design and workforce metrics. These strengths complement Harold’s experience in the assessment industry and his many years providing organizational development consulting and executive coaching. These complementary capabilities strengthen the two firms’ core service offerings and position TADA to help organizations make smarter assessment-based talent decisions and implement metrics-based talent development strategies that work.

Based on the firms’ joint history of highly successful collaborations, Charley and Harold are pleased to formalize their relationship and provide clients with the firms’ combined tools, skills, and workforce development capabilities.

Success Story: Workforce Planning in a Decentralized Organization
We recently combined workforce analytics with an understanding of business strategy and operations to help a Fortune 100 Insurance Company develop a systematic approach to talent management.

The Issue: Our client’s national distribution system was composed of semi-independent agencies of varying size and complexity. Local managing directors, who have entrepreneurial rewards and accountabilities, traditionally made their own talent management decisions. Some decisions were sound; others were disconnected from workloads, budgets, and market approaches. Poor talent decisions were hampering growth and affecting the profitability of the entire organization.

The Solution: Using data on workload and headcount, as well as information gathered in focused interviews with executives, we developed a decision-support model and growth roadmap. The model provided headcount targets, insights into market approach, and new perspectives on workforce investment.

In addition to providing insight into how the organization's strategy, geographic dispersion, and other factors affected workload and headcount, we developed practical tools—including benchmarks, workbooks, and a consulting protocol—to help the agencies scale-up for future growth.

The Results:Headquarters staff now provide fact-based consulting, and managing directors feel confident and informed when making human capital decisions.

Government Success Story: Building a Results-Oriented Leadership Culture
For a newly established government agency, we helped develop a consistently positive, results-oriented management culture.

The Issue: The agency employed a world-class performance management system that was poorly understood by new managers and was used inconsistently by existing managers.

The Solution: Following a thorough needs analysis, we developed a new manager training program that was focused on helping managers understand how to use the system while building core management skills of goal setting, coaching, and feedback.

The Results: The agency is able to reinforce an emerging results-oriented environment and create a positive work culture of performance and accountability. Satisfaction with the organization’s pay-for-performance system is increasing.

Sage Assessments, Inc.
Targeted assessment, feedback, and development
Founded 2001
Marblehead, Massachusetts
http://sageassessments.com/index.html

H Weinstein & Associates
Executive and organizational development: assessment-based insights, strategies, and outcomes
Founded 2005
Newtown, Pennsylvania
harold.weinstein@gmail.com

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About Our Collaboration

We equip organizations with insights that lead to success with their people. Effective leaders, invested employees, and engaged members are the key to achieving better results. We use assessment, measurement, and analytics to understand your organization’s leadership skills, employee competencies, or member engagement, and use these insights to supply development processes aligned with your needs and your organization’s unique culture. We supply:

• Leadership development tools that allow leaders to do their jobs better by understanding natural tendencies, competencies, and performance
• Talent management and development processes that help corporations maximize their human potential
• Strategy development and targeted feedback to keep non-profit organizations aligned with mission and stakeholders.