Harrison Assessments: Predictive Talent Analytics

Harrison Assessments is the cutting-edge, data-driven foundation for all our coaching and consulting services. Using a single 25-minute SmartQuestionnaire™, we gain unparalleled insight into 175 workplace factors—including behavioral tendencies, motivations, and work preferences—to help you Acquire, Develop, Lead, and Engage your most valuable asset: your people.

Our assessment uses unique principles, such as Enjoyment-Performance Theory (people excel at what they enjoy) and Paradox Technology (identifying whether a strong trait is a true strength or a potential weakness/derailer), to deliver highly accurate, actionable results.

🎯 Our Harrison Assessments Service Pillars

We utilize the power of Harrison Assessments across four critical areas of the talent lifecycle to drive business results:

1. Talent Acquisition & Recruitment

Goal: Reduce time-to-hire, minimize recruitment risk, and ensure perfect job fit from Day 1.

  • Job Success Analysis: Objectively compares a candidate’s behavioral suitability against a custom-built Job Success Formula (from a library of over 6,500 roles) to predict their likelihood of success and satisfaction.

  • Automated Candidate Ranking: Quickly shortlist the best candidates by automatically ranking applicants based on their job fit, saving up to 70% of administration time.

  • Custom Interview Guides: Receive personalized, behavioral interview questions designed to probe specific traits and ensure a genuine cultural and behavioral fit.

  • "How To Attract" Report: Provides recruiters with the precise information needed to tailor the job offer and environment to motivate the top candidate to accept.

2. Individual & Team Development

Goal: Accelerate professional growth, turn weaknesses into strengths, and maximize team collaboration.

  • Behavioral Competency Analysis: In-depth analysis against core competencies (e.g., Emotional Intelligence, Collaboration) to pinpoint specific developmental needs.

  • Paradox Technology Reports: Identify potential behavioral derailers (e.g., being decisive but non-collaborative) and provide a clear framework for developing balancing, complementary traits to achieve true behavioral mastery.

  • Development for Position: Provides a structured development plan focused on the two traits that will offer the greatest immediate improvement to performance in a specific role.

  • Your Greatest Strengths Report: Highlights paradoxical strengths—unique combinations of traits that make the individual more versatile and effective under various situations.

3. Leadership & Succession Planning

Goal: Identify and prepare future leaders, align management style with strategic needs, and build a robust talent pipeline.

  • Leadership Competency Assessment: Evaluates leaders against essential competencies, providing clarity on strengths and areas for growth in alignment with organizational strategy.

  • Executive Team Analytics: Provides a comprehensive view of team dynamics, revealing potential cooperation issues or decision-making gaps, and facilitates strategic task allocation based on individual leadership strengths.

  • Predictive Succession Planning: Accurately identifies high-potential candidates at all levels and creates personalized, accelerated development plans to prepare them for future senior roles.

4. Employee Engagement & Retention

Goal: Increase job satisfaction, reduce costly staff turnover, and foster a culture of high performance.

  • Engagement & Retention Analysis: Measures individual and group engagement by analyzing alignment between the employee’s expectations (wants, motivations, preferences) and the organization’s ability to fulfill them.

  • "How to Manage, Develop & Retain" Report: Provides managers with a simple, practical guide on how to best motivate, utilize, and communicate with each individual employee.

  • Career Options Report: Lists over 650 careers in order of predicted enjoyment and job satisfaction for the individual, invaluable for career development and internal mobility programs.

📊 The Harrison Advantage: Why It Works

Benefit to Your Business,

  • One SmartQuestionnaire: Measures 175 traits in just 25 minutes, saving time and reducing candidate fatigue.

  • Predictive Accuracy: Uses Job Success Formulas to predict success and enjoyment, significantly reducing hiring mistakes.

  • Paradox Technology: Identifies potential derailers—behaviors that look like strengths but cause problems under stress—providing deeper coaching insight.

  • High ROI: Improves productivity, increases employee retention, and reduces the time and cost associated with poor hiring decisions and low engagement.