The Birkman

Birkman is the premier non-clinical instrument for measuring human behavior and occupational strengths. 

The Birkman assessment creates a human capital spreadsheet that reveals an individual’s key strengths, motivations, interests and stress behaviors. 

Birkman measures – with only one questionnaire – a breadth and depth of information that typically requires several profiles.

Organizational Alignment
With the Birkman, you have a proven solution for maximizing productivity by aligning individual or team behavior with organizational strategy and culture. Birkman identifies behavioral strengths and weaknesses as well as how the organizational systems can best meet the needs of individuals. Companies can motivate everyone involved, maximize their potential and achieve higher level of effectiveness.

When strategic goals, cultural values, and internal systems are linked and compatible with one another, the potential of the organization is unleashed and performance is maximized. Unfortunately, the three processes involved—strategy, culture and systems—are usually approached as independent issues with little or no attempt to integrate.

Motivating and Developing Employees
What really motivates employees? Is it money, recognition, the environment, or the position itself?

Birkman determines the key factors that affect employee wellbeing, satisfaction and motivation. Companies can maximize an individual's strengths, identify tasks and positions that will help them shine. By putting the employee in the right job with the right kind of support, companies achieve greater performance, employees are more satisfied and the bottom line benefits from increased employee retention.

Leadership Development and Succession Planning
Leaders can be developed and leadership skills can be learned. Birkman provides concise, reliable data for identifying an individual's strengths and determining actionable plans. With Birkman, diversity is recognized and encouraged; the profile of the leader is matched with the culture and requirements of the organization.

Birkman's approach to succession planning focuses on getting the right people in the right roles at all levels of the organization. It enables management to identify the best internal candidates for each position. And, it helps develop a potential successor in ways that best fit and maximize that person's unique strengths.

Organizations can ensure that performance levels continue to be effective throughout change and over time.

Conflict Management
When individuals with different priorities must interact to implement plans and solve problems, it's not uncommon for actions and needs to be misunderstood. Conflict can lead to a contentious environment, affect productivity, decrease job satisfaction and compound everyday stress. Prolonged conflict within an organization will negatively affect the bottom line.

Birkman has the unique capability of measuring rather than inferring an individual's underlying needs. It begins a process of reducing conflict by bringing individuals together and allowing them to build bridges of communication. This leads to greater mutual respect and understanding. Ultimately, it results in more effective working relationships, improved productivity and the successful achievement of common goals.

Team Building
Team building using Birkman tools establishes trust and provides a non-judgmental vocabulary which participant can use independently when they return to the workplace. Through understanding individual strengths and weakness, we identify the right team member for each job and build a team where the strengths of each team member are focused in a collaborative effort. The team becomes focused on collective productivity and team success.

ESM team building enhances any other team building exercise.

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