“The tools Hamlin Harkins, Ltd. use to evaluate organizations and team dynamics are laser sharp. They cut to the essence about how our organization works and gave us clear direction for what should be our focus to improve. The model for their assessment tools is both clear and thoughtful. Their insights from years of experience working with teams and organizational performance shines right through!”

- CEO
Professional Services Company

Organizations face two ongoing challenges:

1. How to consistently improve organizational performance in the face of multiple priorities; and
2. How to ensure teams of people — each with their own personal style — work effectively together.

Hamlin Harkins, Ltd. offers two easy-to-use, online proprietary diagnostic tools to help companies address both issues.

Organizational Performance

Looking at priorities for the business is a foundation for strategic and operational planning. PULSE (SM), our organizational performance indicator, allows managers to rate current organization performance in ten key functional areas and relative to the stage of maturity of the operation in its business life-cycle.

While the assessment tool is simple to complete, the results are robust and provide the team a clear view of priorities to address. Planning groups spend less time defining issues and more time solving them!

This performance tool can be used by any organization at any time in its operation. Executives use it to prepare for annual strategic planning; new executives use it to benchmark organizational health; companies entering mergers and acquisitions use it to compare and contrast enterprise operations; and managers use it to evaluate performance of functions or divisions to make their organizations more effective and efficient.

Individual Style and Team Dynamics

Combining individuals into teams to perform tasks involves the mystery and magic of blending personal styles in effective ways.

While it's easy to recognize a highly-functioning team from a dysfunctional one, it's less obvious to pinpoint what contributes to underperforming teams and what will help them improve.

VITALS (SM), our individual styles and team dynamics indicator, is a personal assessment tool that provides team members with a profile of their personal operational styles: both the "strength style" and the "shadow style" one resorts to when under stress. This allows participants to understand their personal contributions to a team. A group report outlines the implications for the working dynamics of the team and shows the team how to make the most of combination for superior team performance.

In the Wild West, it was smart to "head the bad guys off at the pass." The same can be said for organizations, where the value of performance indicators is prevention. Our diagnostics helps identify habits, issues and dynamics and helps teams correct course for higher performance.

For more information about these assessment tools, call us at 510-647-5089. We also invite you to read our article about performance improvement: Pulse and Vitals.

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