Drake Picasso ®
Proprietary to Drake, this computer-based assessment and human resource development system replaces traditional "pen and paper" psychological assessments.

Drake Picasso ® is a powerful management tool for determining:

• Leadership and operating styles
• Reasoning skills
• Style of handing conflict
• Personality traits
• The role one plays within a team
• Occupational preferences
• Behavioral competencies

Having a clear understanding of the personality profile and capabilities of the individuals within your organization is the key to establishing and building a strong business team.

Using Drake Picasso ® to capture this knowledge enables effective:

• Career planning and development
• Personnel appraisal
• Team building
• Succession planning
• Management development
• Retirement or redundancy counseling
• Change management

Considerably faster and easier to use than most traditional forms of assessment, Drake Picasso integrates multiple assessments and functions so the user could simply and flexible enter and access information.

Six respected and validated assessments have been seamlessly combined into one flexible, integrated assessment system. Whereas traditional executive and management assessment required professional supervision and three to four hours for the participant to complete, Drake Picasso can be completed on a computer within one and a half hours after an initial briefing session.

Similarly, there is no need for a psychologist to interpret each assessment separately and then spend hours preparing a combined report. Drake Picasso electronically produces multiple reports within seconds of the assessments being completed, and removes any subjectivity involved in the psychologist's interpretation.

Applications for Drake Picasso ® include:
Designed for consistent use within the day-to-day management activities, this system enables organizations to establish a consistent and effective structure for people management to enhance both individual and corporate productivity.

Career Planning and Development Reports provide feedback on strengths and weaknesses, development opportunities, and specific actions and activities that could be taken to further develop attributes and skills against gaps in ideal profiles.

Management Development - Recommendations are made specific to competency areas of weakness, and the system allows tracking of growth and change by outlining follow up programs and monitoring techniques.

Personnel Appraisal - Reports provide feedback to individuals on the strengths and weaknesses and realistically and professionally states underlying capabilities and tendencies.

Recruitment and Selection - The process creates a blueprint for a job role, and facilitates a matching process comparing individuals against the role blueprint within seconds. Electronic reports provide matching indications where gaps may exist, and create custom behavior description interviewing scripts that probe further into areas of question.

Team Building - Once individual profiles are entered into the system, a manager can bundle together "teams" or "departments" of people and accurately evaluate how different groups of people would work together. Strengths and weaknesses of groups of 2 to 5000+ can be evaluated.

This function enables you to evaluate your team in context to how current team members fulfill their functions so that future teams can be prescribed and built to optimum specifications. Ideal team profiles can be built, and individuals selected against the profile to ensure you are building the most effective teams.

Succession Planning - Ideal role profiling functions provide the ability to design new and traditional roles for organizational change. Capturing data of why one person is a top performer in one role enables the organization to clearly identify what competencies are required in candidates for promotion and for succession planning.

Retirement or Redundancy Counseling - Reports provide feedback to individuals communicating their strengths and weaknesses. This enables the individual to clarify their thoughts about new directions and opportunities, and professionalizes the process of personnel changes.

Culture and Change Management - Behavioral themes are analyzed within any range of selected groups of people, enabling proactive change management programs to be installed to continually advance an organization forward.

Human behavior is affected by a number of factors. Accordingly, Drake Picasso avoids predicting the behavior on the basis of a single assessment. The system integrates the following recognized and respected assessments:

• Team Roles Test (Belbin)
• Test of Conflict Handling (Thomas & Killman)
• Management Potential Test (Ghiselli)
• Alpha Test of Intelligence (U.S. Armed Forces)
• Operational Styles Test (Apter)
• Learning Styles Test (Honey)
• Self Assessment Questionnaire (Levene)
• Activity Preference Questionnaire (Levene)

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