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About the indicator
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| The Skills Indicators are instruments that let you rate yourself on 20 specific skills by completing a self-assessment questionnaire with 20 pairs of questions. A special feature of the Indicator is that you can also get feedback from other people on how they rate you on these same skills.
Benefits of using the Indicator:
- to determine your development needs. By completing the Indicator you can get high quality information about your skills and development needs.
- for evaluation. You can also use the Indicator to evaluate your improvements. After a period of development you can use a new Indicator to compare your scores before and after the training and development.
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Ideally you should have a follow-up discussion with your supervisor, colleagues or others, to help you interpret your Indicator results.
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About your scores
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After finishing the self-assessment questionnaire you can view scores at any time by clicking on View Scores in the Progress menu. The system will automatically calculate your self-rating scores on each of the 20 skills. You can also view an average feedback score for all of your feedback people. To see the scores of individual feedback persons choose Details.
You can also sort your scores according to:
- highest scores
- lowest scores
- biggest differences between self and feedback scores
- smallest differences between self and feedback scores
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Things to watch out for:
- If your personal score and your feedback score are below 5 on a certain skill - this might be a good area of skill development to focus on.
- If your personal score on a certain skill is higher than your feedback score - talk to your feedback people to identify why they rated you lower on this skill.
- If your personal score on a certain skill is lower than your feedback score - maybe your self-confidence is low in this area. Talk to your feedback people to check out why there is this gap in perceptions.
- If there is no score on a specific skill: you ticked the "Not relevant" box when answering the questionnaire, and blocked out the questions for your feedback persons.
The Skills Indicators should be used as a tool for assessment of skills in conjunction with others. Ideally you should have a follow up discussion with your manager, colleagues or others, to help you interpret your results.
Once you have examined and interpreted your scores and obtained any additional feedback you require from others, you can identify which of the 20 specific skills areas you need to focus on for your own development.
You can then plan your training and development strategies to meet these needs. You may want to discuss this with your manager, your coach or trainer, or the HR manager. |
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Using the indicator
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There are two ways to move around the Indicator website:
- Use the menu bar on the top of the screen.
- Via the progress menu on the right. This menu shows you where you are at all times. A tick indicates that you have completed this step, an arrow suggests that this is the next step and blue text is still to be done. After you have completed a step, the text becomes grey. Below the progress menu you will also find some hyperlinks specific to the page where you are at that moment.
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Progress menu:
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Choose Indicator |
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Start questionnaire |
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Ask for feedback |
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View scores |
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Action Summary |
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Choose your subject from the pull down menu, option Choose Indicator
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Complete the self-assessment questionnaire; login with your login code |
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Invite others to rate you on the chosen skills |
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View your scores to determine your strengths and skills that need developing |
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Print out your action plan, decide on your development needs and discuss with manager |
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| 1. Choose indicator
Choose which skill area you want to test yourself on from the pull down menu.
2. Buy a login code
After you have chosen the Skills Indicator you wish to use you have to login. Click on Buy login a code in the menu bar and say how many skill indicators you wish to purchase.
3. Login
After that, you will be given a login code and password. Use this informataion to login.
The self-assessment questionnaire has 20 pairs of questions, each pair describing a different skill. Rate yourself on each item by clicking on the check box below the scale that best matches your ability. Try to be as honest as possible; after all, your goal is to get a good picture of your strengths and weaknesses!
Note: Some pairs of items may not be relevant to your current job. If so, click the Not Relevant box below the question.
3. Ask for feedback
You can get feedback from others on how they rate your skills in the chosen area. This can be very useful as other people may have a more accurate perception of your skills than you do. Choose three people (maximum five) who know you and the way you work. They could be your supervisor, work colleagues, your staff or even a customer or a client.
Click on Ask other people and simply fill in the details: the name, job title and e-mail address of your feedback person and click on Next. You will then see an e-mail with a unique login code which will be sent to the feedback person of your choice, inviting them to fill out a feedback questionnaire for you. You can add a personal note to the e-mail if you prefer; then click on Send.
You can check the status of your feedback questionnaires at any time by clicking on Ask for feedback in the progress menu.
4. View scores
You can view your scores at any time by clicking on View scores . The system will automatically calculate your self-rating scores on each of the 20 skills. You can also view an average feedback score for all of your feedback people. You can sort scores from high to low, or the other way around, or by biggest/smallest differences between self and feedback scores.
By pressing Details you can view the original questions and scores.
View About your scores for more information.
5. Action Summary
The Skills Indicators should be used as assessment tool in combination with feedback from others. Ideally you should have a follow-up discussion with your manager, colleagues or others, to help you interpret your results. Once you have examined and interpreted your scores and obtained any additional feedback you require from others, you can identify which of the 20 skills area you need to focus on for your own development. You can then plan your training and development strategies to meet these needs. Print out the action plan form by clicking on Action Summary, fill it in and discuss with your team leader, manager, mentor or Human Resource Manager.
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