Individual / Organisational Assessment and Research

Our approach to improving organizational effectiveness is based on our collective experience in providing pragmatic solutions to various companies. By concentrating exclusively on our client’s internal capabilities, we are able to understand the subtleties of the organisation’s needs and provide the very best customized human resources solutions.

Our expertise in individual and organizational assessment offers our clients the assurance of positive, cost-effective results in selecting and utilizing their human assets.

Canaan Consulting is committed to improving the organizational effectiveness of our clients. Each of our comprehensive systems combines unparalleled consulting expertise, state-of-the art scientific research and sophisticated computing technology. Our staff of experienced professionals can help your company address a variety of human resources challenges brought about by the complex and continuously changing business environment.

Executive Assessment & Development
Today’s business environment is marked by continuous change. Mergers, acquisitions, hostile takeovers, market globalization and increased competition have muddled the process of management to an unparalleled degree.

Organisational success in this type of environment depends on leadership who are able to quickly adapt to changing circumstances, focus on new objectives and achieve results. Achieving success requires customized assessment programs that ensure that your company’s leaders are capable of guiding the organization in designing and implementing strategically directed goals. 

Individual executive assessment can help you:

1. identify global leaders
2. provide valuable information for succession planning
3. focus on development planning efforts

Organisational Assessment & Development
Many critical organizational outcomes, including employee turnover, quality improvements, and financial performance, are often related to attitudes towards the organization. The ability to evaluate such factors as customer satisfaction, employee perceptions and company morale can be essential to the organisation’s success. Organisational surveys allow the company’s leaders to “take the pulse” of the organization, its members and customers and subsequently establish benchmarks for progress and change.

Canaan Consulting possesses the technology and experience to survey organization on a global basis, to provide feedback and facilitate organizational action planning. Our consultants will collaborate with your management team to design reliable and valid surveys that achieve results in the most cost effective manner.

Whether you are targeting as few as 50, or as many as 10,000 respondents, our customized services can assist the organization with all aspects of our survey process, from specifying goals to reporting results. In addition, our clients can choose from a full range of survey administrative options, including internet and telephone platforms.

Organisational surveys can help the company:

1. Define the company climate and culture
2. Assess reasons for turnover and retention
3. Perform “cultural due diligence” in mergers and acquisitions
4. Build a corporate-wide value system

Multi-Source Assessment (3600 feedback)
Multi-source assessment, popularly refered to as 360-degree assessment is being embraced by organizations at an accelerating rate. As its name implies, multi-source assessment analyses employee performance and development from multiple points of view, including supervisors, peers, subordinates and customers. Knowledge of how a person is perceived by others can have significant impact on a person, especially when such information is derived from credible work associates. Common applications of multi-source assessment include, but are not limited to, motivating employee behaviour change, supporting cultural changes, reinforcing team behaviours and career development.

Canaan Consulting offers customized multi-source feedback processes that allow individuals to gather feedback about their performance in areas determined to be critical for success. All of our multi-source instrument solicits feedback on competency models that have been specifically tailored at targeted individuals in your organization. We create flexible systems that can be administered in paper-and-pencil format. We coordinate the entire process, including the distributing of surveys, computation of results, proving customized feedback and creation of development action plans. With administrative burden removed, your resources can be devoted to transforming the results real behaviours change.

Multi-source feedback can help:

1. Identify individual and organization training needs.
2. Measure management talent
3. Add multiple perspectives to performance appraisal evaluations

 Job Competency Modelling

The challenge of establishing job requirements is becoming increasingly complex as the corporate world becomes more competitive. Nonetheless identifying a precise set of competencies for each job is the first step towards creating a competent workforce, capable of meeting critical demands of your organization.

Job competency assessment is a breakdown of general job functions into specific activities essential to successful performance. Each activity is analysed to determine the human behaviours or personal characteristics that determines the successful completion of that activity. Job competency assessment provides valuable information for a variety of human resources functions, including recruitment, selection, placement, performance appraisal, training and development and succession planning.

All of our applications are founded on the most advanced competency based methodologies. Although we have developed competency models for a number of organizations, spanning industries and job types, we purposely customized each job competency study for a particular organization. This philosophy allows us to identify specific and sometimes unique, competencies that lead to outstanding individual performance in your organization.

Competency modeling can help the organization change its corporate culture and allign company goals and vision with actual processes and practice.