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- 3. Introduction to our Large Sales Force Analysis
The Scope Profiles Research Institute initiated this study to better understand the factors that drive
sales force productivity in large organizations.
235 Companies In economics, “productivity” is a measure of output per unit of input. However,
productivity alone is not a sufficient gauge of sales force effectiveness since it ignores
1 million Sales People pricing and margins. A sales force that discounts price to the point of eliminating
profitability may win business, but this approach is not sustainable even in the short-term.
13 Industries
For purposes of this study, we sought to account for both revenue growth and revenue
profitability, which we defined as operating income generated for each dollar of revenue
generated. These calculations required us to analyze financial data from over 230 publicly
traded companies with at least 500 sales people that we then organized into 13 different
The Analytical Model industry groups.
We then plotted these companies among their peers to identify the best in class,
Revenue Growth questionable, and laggards within each industry group. We took a closer look at the best-
in-class companies to identify common practices that enable them to out-perform their
Best-in-Class peers. By understanding these practices, we hope to educate ourselves and our clients
about the practices that can help them run more efficiently and become more competitive
in the marketplace.
Operating Margin
Laggards This report presents our findings in two sections:
1. Comprehensive analysis of over 230 companies in 13 industry groups to identify the
best in class, questionables, and laggards.
2. A synthesis and discussion of the top factors that drive sales force productivity.
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- 4. Large Sales Force Analysis: Industry Groupings
Business Services Insurance
Chemicals Media
Consumer Products Medical Devices
Electronics Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals
Financial Services Software
Industrial Manufacturing Telecommunication Services
Transportation
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- 6. Business Services Consumer Products Chemicals
Insurance
Medical Devices
Electronics Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
Industrial Manufacturing
Financial Services Media Software
Telecommunications Services Transportation
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Industry: Business Services
Revenue Growth
RRD
NSIT
IM
CGX
10%
Best in Class OMX
- Iron Mountain Incorporated OMC
- Sykes Enterprises Incorporated UIS
- UniFirst Corporation WM
PBI
IT
Operating Margin KFRC
DLX
-10% -5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% TECD
IBM
STEI
-5% CTAS
EFX
USTR
PAYX
ABM
DNB
IRM
UNF
CVG
SYKE
Circle Diameter Represents
Relative Sales Force Size HPY
-20% APAC
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Industry: Chemicals
Revenue Growth 10%
5%
Best in Class
- Ecolab
0% DD
-10% -5% 0% 5% 10% 15%
NLC
ARG
-5%
ASH
Operating Margin APD
-10% PPG
SHW
VAL
-15%
POL
DOW
-20% ECL
-25%
Circle Diameter Represents
-30% Relative Sales Force Size
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Industry: Consumer Products
10%
Revenue Growth NWL
AOS
Best in Class
DELL
- Altria Group, Inc.
- National Beverage Corp. SEE
5%
DF
WH
R
GPC
Operating Margin STZ
0%
-5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% PTV
CAG
REV
-5%
PVH
HRL
HPQ
-10% KO
JNJ
K
AYI
-15% Circle Diameter Represents
Relative Sales Force Size
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Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Revenue Growth
10%
Best in Class
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
5%
0%
Operating Margin
-5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% XIDE
TXN
-5% SWK
ARW
INTC
-10% EMC
WAT
QCOM
-15%
-20%
Circle Diameter Represents
Relative Sales Force Size
-25%
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Industry: Financial Services
Revenue Growth
40%
Best in Class
- Bank of America
- Fifth Third Bancorp
LM
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.
30%
- Piper Jaffray Companies SCHW
AXP
AMTD
20% SWS
FMER
COF
10% KEY
HRB
Operating Margin GS
0% USB
-5% 5% 15% 25% FCNCA
ERIE
-10% AMP
FITB
JPM
BAC
-20%
PJC
Circle Diameter Represents
-30%
Relative Sales Force Size
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Industry: Industrial Manufacturing
Revenue Growth RYL
5%
PRST
Best in Class LEA
- Northrop Grumman Corporation URI
RRR
0% TXT
JCI
-5% 0% 5% 10% 15% B
Operating Margin TECUA
ROK
-5% ETN
TRW
LAWS
TEN
AIN
-10% AXE
DE
OC
FAST
SPW
-15% GT
HON
SNA
TNC
GE
-20% WPP
ITW
ADM
UTX
GWW
-25% MWV
IP
KMT
Circle Diameter Represents PH
Relative Sales Force Size AIT
-30%
NOC
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Industry: Insurance
Revenue Growth PFG
SIGI
35% CI
TMK
CB
HGIC
25% AON
Best in Class AFG
TRV
- AFLAC
CINF
- Mercury General Corporation
CNO
15% -The Progressive Corporation BRK.A
- Protective Life Corporation THG
UAM
L
5% HUM
Operating Margin UTR
UNH
CNA
-5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20%
EMCI
-5% ALL
STC
AFL
HMN
-15% AET
PGR
ANAT
PL
MCY
-25% Circle Diameter Represents
FNF
Relative Sales Force Size
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Industry: Media
Revenue Growth
15%
Best in Class
- Comcast Corporation
- Google
5% CMCSA
VIA
HHS
-10% -5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% ACXM
GOOG
Operating Margin
-5%
GCI
LAMR
DIS
-15%
Circle Diameter Represents
-25% Relative Sales Force Size
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Industry: Medical Devices
Revenue Growth
15%
Best in Class
- Medtronic, Inc.
- St. Jude Medical, Inc.
10%
XRAY
STJ
5%
MMM
BSX
SYK
0% PLL
-20% -15% -10% -5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% STE
Operating Margin
ZMH
MDT
-5%
BEC
TMO
-10%
Circle Diameter Represents
Relative Sales Force Size
-15%
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Industry: Pharmaceutical
Revenue Growth 20%
CAH
MYL
15% Best in Class ABC
- Forest Laboratories, Inc.
HSIC
- Perrigo Company
AGN
10% PFE
ABT
PSSI
5% BIIB
FRX
Operating Margin LLY
0% WPI
-5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
PRGO
KG
-5% Circle Diameter Represents
Relative Sales Force Size
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Industry: Software
Revenue Growth
40%
Best in Class
- Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Oracle Corporation QADI
30% - Western Digital Corporation
CPWR
XRX
NCR
20% PMTC
PRGS
MCRS
10% SNPS
CA
Operating Margin BMC
0% MSTR
-10% -5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% MSFT
VRSN
-10% INTU
CSCO
ORCL
-20% NTAP
WDC
Circle Diameter Represents
-30%
Relative Sales Force Size
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Industry: Telecommunications Services
Revenue Growth 15% Best in Class
- Verizon Communications
10%
LVLT
TLAB
SATS
5%
Operating Margin PLCM
S
IDT
0% Q
-20% -15% -10% -5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% VCI
PGI
T
-5%
USM
PAET
VZ
-10%
-15% Circle Diameter Represents
Relative Sales Force Size
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Industry: Transportation
5%
Revenue Growth Best in Class
- ABF Freight System
- FedEx LSTR
0%
Operating Margin
-10% -5% 0% 5% 10% 15% UNP
-5% ABFS
LCC
-10%
UPS
-15%
CHRW
ALK
-20%
LUV
-25%
JBLU
FDX
-30% Circle Diameter Represents
Relative Sales Force Size
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- 21. Overview of Findings:
America’s Most Productive Companies Large Sales Force Analysis
After compiling and analyzing the data to identify Best-in-Class sales organizations, we
conducted follow-up research on a number of these companies. This consisted of online
literature review and interviews with select executives.
Our research helped us identify a number of best practices that we believe explain
outstanding sales force productivity. These six Key Differentiators of Excellence are
listed below:
1. Extreme customer and market focus
2. Alignment of products, services, and solutions with customers’ high-priority needs
3. Alignment of resources to build customer loyalty
4. Alignment of sales process with customers’ buying processes
5. Alignment of sales roles and capabilities with customers’ buying processes
6. Alignment of time utilization and territories with market potential
This report expounds upon each of these six key differentiators of excellence and offers
insight and best practice recommendations for increased sales force effectiveness.
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1. Extreme customer and market focus
Top Reasons Sales Close Regardless of the economy, successful sales organizations continually invest in
learning about their customers’ needs and training to sell to these needs.
Sales forces at America’s Most Productive Companies distinguish themselves from peer companies
by taking deliberate measures to align their sales organizations and resources to best meet their
customers’ needs.
For example, these organizations are more likely than their peer companies to:
• Use 360-degree feedback and other tools to help sales managers better understand their teams’
internal capabilities and assign the appropriate resources to the right projects
• Ask customers and prospects in-depth questions to gain a thorough understanding of their
businesses before making sales presentations
Nurtured Relationships • Train their salespeople to offer unique solutions to customer problems rather than a one-size-
fits-all approach
Support/Service after the sale
Product Quality These activities help them make larger sales; accelerate the sales cycle; and optimize selling time,
activities, and staffing levels. All of this helps drive sales force productivity to higher levels.
Branding
Referals Our research suggests that America’s Most Productive Companies provide sales training as well as
Sales Process product training to their sales teams regardless of the economy. Peer organizations, on the other
hand, are more likely to cut back on sales training when the economy is bad. According to a survey
Price respondent, “We see a down economy as an opportunity to learn more about our team members
Availability and how they can make a unique contribution.”
ROI
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2. Alignment of products, services, and solutions with customers’ high-priority needs
Really understanding the most pressing needs of the customer and providing solutions
“
that satisfy these needs and deliver value is essential to sales success.
Sales leaders at America’s Most Productive Companies understand that while extreme “customer
focus” is essential, it’s not by any means sufficient. They transcend typical “features and benefits”
of the products they sell to grasp what is truly important to the customer. These best-in-class sales
Identify a critical professionals:
problem facing your • Know their customers’ priorities, how the products and services they sell help to satisfy their
customer – one so customers’ needs, and how much value customers place on having their needs met
ominous that, even • Realize that the more complex and expensive the problem, the more rigorously they will evaluate
in a downturn, it will and scrutinize potential solutions – especially B2B buyers
find the money to • Appreciate that needs and priorities change over time, so it is essential to make the connection
address it. between their solution and how you can help them not only long-term, but today as well.
Harvard Business Review High value doesn’t mean low price. In fact it may command a premium when the benefits are so
”
March 2010 significant that price is no longer such a meaningful factor. This pricing power helps bolster sales and
profitability, and increases sales force productivity.
A survey respondent from one of America’s Most Productive Companies told us that his was the first
sales team to take the time to find out about their customers’ top priorities. “We used to be more
concerned with our products’ features than with our customers’ needs, but when we turned that
upside down, we saw customers respond like never before.”
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3. Alignment of resources to build customer loyalty
Don’t just live and breathe your products—live and breathe your customers’ business.
Nearly everyone knows that it costs a lot more money to gain a new customer than it does to keep an
existing one. Yet, in their day-to-day operations, many sales organizations seem to forget that axiom.
Their sales professionals work leads, make cold calls, respond to RFPs, pitch their products and services,
and do whatever it takes to make a sale (including discounting). They build customer bases, but they
forget what it takes to maintain customer loyalty – and all too often they shoot themselves in the foot.
What do America’s Most Productive Companies do to ensure repeat business and customer loyalty?
Our survey suggests that they:
• Exceed customer expectations by knowing their customers’ businesses better than the competition
does, by being proactive in offering solutions that address their customers’ needs, and by
communicating with customers in a timely, effective manner
Profiles International’s report, Seven
Factors for Building Extreme Customer
Loyalty, goes beyond simply satisfying • Put in place an infrastructure that ensures customer support either through technology or face-to-
customers to protecting and growing face interaction; sales forces at America’s Most Productive Companies do a better job
strategic accounts with: communicating with their customers, knowing their customers’ needs, and proactively addressing
them
1. Emotional Dependence
2. Structural Dependence • Establish and monitor key “loyalty indicators”
3. Business Dependence
4. Satisfaction America’s Most Productive Companies go beyond basic customer satisfaction. Especially in the B2B
5. Performance
space, they make their products and services integral parts of how customers run their businesses. For
6. Economic Value Proposition
example, a survey respondent told us, “We don’t just live and breathe our products – we live and
7. Alignment and Fit
breathe our customers’ operations. They know that, and they thank us by returning year after year.”
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4. Alignment of sales process with customers’ buying processes
Today’s buyers are rigorous and deliberate about their buying decisions.
Rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all sales process on hapless prospects, America’s Most Productive
Companies sell the way their customers want to buy. In today’s economy, consumers are spending
wisely. They believe they have leverage with sellers, and in many cases they do! So they dictate the
process and they are rigorous and deliberate about their buying decisions.
What’s more, buyers are using social networks to learn about solutions, vendors, and pricing; there is
little opportunity to manipulate or glad-hand someone into buying. That’s why America’s Most
Productive Companies:
• Understand how customers make buying decisions and align their selling process accordingly
• Use technology to help the sales team track their progress through the customer’s buying process
• Use integrated lead generation and CRM systems to improve revenue predictability
• Produce effective reports to give sales managers pipeline visibility so they can hold sales people
Key Buying Influencers: accountable and also provide better coaching and resources to support qualified opportunities
1. Trust
2. Value Sales organizations at America’s Most Productive Companies understand how customers make buying
decisions – and they align their selling processes accordingly. They don’t make simple sales complex and
3. Resources they don’t make complex sales simple.
For example, one respondent from a best-in-class company commented, “If a solution has broad impact
and requires input from multiple parties to identify the problem, scope a solution, and make a buying
decision, that means our team must be prepared for a longer sales cycle and a much more strategic
approach to making the sale.”
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5. Alignment of sales roles and capabilities with customers’ buying processes
Best-in-class organizations get to know their customers’ businesses on a granular level
and develop specialized sales roles that align with how customers buy.
Aligning the selling process with the customer’s buying process requires specialization of sales roles and
capabilities. For example, a successful new business development executive (the classic “hunter”)
probably has different skills, interests, and core behaviors than a key account manager (the classic
“farmer”), or a sales engineer (the classic “geek”).
In our work with some of America’s Most Productive Companies, we find time and time again, that these
best-in-class organizations make an effort to get to know their customers’ businesses on a granular level
and develop specialized sales roles that align with how customers buy. Survey results suggest that sales
forces at America’s Most Productive Companies:
• Clearly define the purpose of the sales role and know what makes someone successful in that role
• Determine who fits best into each role and then either develop or hire people for each specific job;
since cultural issues and other factors can influence who “fits” into an organization, this work is often
customized
• Pinpoint the skills and developmental needs of individual sales representatives
A survey respondent from one of America’s Most Productive Companies told us, “We make sure our reps
fit in with the customers they service. We know our people – and we really know our customers.”
For most adults, it is easier to acquire new skills than to change core behaviors. That’s why many of
America’s Most Productive Companies hire people based on their behaviors – and then train the skills.
At these organizations people are passionate and capable.
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6. Alignment of time utilization and territories with market potential
The only thing constant is change. Last year’s prime territory could be this year’s
wasteland.
Sales leaders at America’s Most Productive Companies tell us that they don’t shy away from tough
decisions such as when to walk away from a deal, when to let go of a territory that lacks market
potential, or when to invest in extra resources.
No one likes abandoning a customer, but in some cases, especially when demographics and industry
trends have changed so much that a certain territory no longer has promise, continuing to service it
can be a fool’s errand.
America’s Most Productive Companies monitor their sales forces’ time and analyze their territories
to ensure that:
• There aren’t too many or too few reps assigned
• They are up-to-date and ready to act based on demographic trends, business news, zoning
issues, and “the local buzz”
• They maintain proper focus on the right selling activities, in the right quantities, at the right
conversion rates
These sales leaders don’t operate in a vacuum. They develop, track, and adjust their “sales
formulas” as needed. One survey respondent told us, “The only thing that remains constant around
here is change. That’s why we are careful about how we allot our selling time. Last year’s prime
territory could be this year’s wasteland. And if that’s the case, I need to know!”
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- 28. Summary of Lessons Learned:
Six Key Differentiators of Excellence
of America’s Most Productive Companies
1. Extreme customer and market focus
2. Alignment of products, services, and solutions with customers’ high-priority needs
3. Alignment of resources to build customer loyalty
4. Alignment of sales process with customers’ buying processes
5. Alignment of sales roles and capabilities with customers’ buying processes
6. Alignment of time utilization and territories with market potential
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How We Do It: Overview of our assessments and solutions
Your Business Objective Our Popular Solutions
High-level Strategic Workforce Management
Identifying high-potential employees and managers PXT CP360 PSA CSP
Strategic workforce and succession planning PXT PPI CP360 PSA CSP
Restructuring, reorganizing, and downsizing PXT PPI PMF WES PSA CSP PLP
Post-merger integration of organizations PXT PPI PMF WES PSA CSP PLP
Everyday Workforce Management
Basic pre-employment screening SOS PST
Screening, interviewing, and selecting job candidates PXT PST EBC PSA CSP
Onboarding new employees PXT PPI PMF
Improving employee productivity and work quality PXT PPI WES
Improving employee motivation and communication PPI PMF WES
Resolving conflict between coworkers PPI
Selecting and managing teams PPI
Evaluating management effectiveness PXT PPI CP360 WES
Prioritizing management development needs CP360 WES
Sales and Customer-facing Workforce Management
Screening, interviewing, and selecting job candidates PST EBC PSA CSP
Retaining and growing customers and accounts PSA CSP PLP
Improving sales performance PPI CP360 PMF WES PSA PLP
Legend SOS Step One Survey PMF Profiles Managerial Fit
PXT ProfileXT WES Workplace Engagement Survey
PST Profiles Skills Tests PSA Profiles Sales Assessment
EBC Employee Background Checks CSP Customer Service Profile
PPI Profiles Performance Indicator PLP Profiles LoyaltyPro
CP360 CheckPoint 360
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How We Do It: Assessment and solution descriptions
Profiles Sales Assessment™ (PSA)
The Profiles Sales Assessment (PSA) measures how well a person fits specific sales jobs in your
organization. It is used primarily for selecting, onboarding, and managing sales people and account
managers.
The “job modeling” feature of the PSA is unique and can be customized by company, sales position,
department, manager, geography, or any combination of these factors. This enables you to evaluate
an individual relative to the qualities required to perform successfully in a specific sales job in your
organization. It also predicts on-the-job performance in seven critical sales behaviors: Prospecting,
Call Reluctance, Closing the Sale, Self-starting, Working with a Team, Building and Maintaining
Relationships, and Compensation Preference.
Customer Service Profile™ (CSP)
The Customer Service Profile (CSP) measures how well a person fits specific customer service jobs in
your organization. It is used primarily for selecting, onboarding, and managing customer service
employees.
The CSP also looks at what your current and future employees believe is a high level of customer
service, while at the same time showing where they align (or not) with the company’s perspective.
We have a general industry version of this assessment as well as vertical specialties in hospitality,
healthcare, financial services, and retail.
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How We Do It: Assessment and solution descriptions
Step One Survey II® (SOSII)
The SOSII is a brief pre-hire assessment that measures an individual’s basic work-related values. It is
used primarily as a screening tool early in the candidate selection process.
This assessment provides valid insight into an applicant’s work ethic, reliability, integrity, propensity
for substance abuse, and attitudes toward theft — including property, data, and time.
ProfileXT® (PXT)
The PXT assessment measures how well an individual fits specific jobs in your organization. The “job
matching” feature of the PXT is unique, and it enables you to evaluate an individual relative to the
qualities required to successfully perform in a specific job. It is used throughout the employee life
cycle for selection, onboarding, managing, and strategic workforce planning.
This assessment reveals consistent, in-depth, objective insight into an individual's thinking and
reasoning style, relevant behavioral traits, occupational interests, and match to specific jobs in your
organization. It helps your managers interview and select people who have the highest probability
of being successful in a role, and provides practical recommendations for coaching them to
maximum performance. It also gives your organization consistent language and metrics to support
strategic workforce and succession planning, talent management, and reorganization efforts.
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Profiles Performance Indicator™ (PPI)
The Profiles Performance Indicator (PPI) is a DISC-type assessment that reveals aspects of an individual's
personality that could impact their fit with their manager, coworkers and team, and their job
performance. It is used primarily for motivating and coaching employees, and resolving post-hire conflict
and performance issues.
The PPI specifically measures an individual's motivational intensity and behaviors related to productivity,
quality of work, initiative, teamwork, problem solving, and adapting to change as well as response to
conflict, stress, and frustration. The output from this assessment serves as an “operator's manual” for an
employee, which helps managers better motivate, coach, and communicate with the employee. It also
helps to predict and minimize conflict among coworkers, and it provides crucial information for improving
team selection and performance.
A powerful feature of the PPI is the Team Analysis Report, designed to help managers form new teams,
reduce team conflict, improve team communication, improve their ability to anticipate problems, and
enhance their team leadership skills.
It helps evaluate overall team balance, strengths, and weaknesses as well as team members’ personality
characteristics along 12 key factors: control, composure, social influence, analytical thinking, patience,
results orientation, precision, expressiveness, ambition, teamwork, positive expectancy, and quality
orientation. It also provides team leaders with practical recommendations and action steps to take in
order to succeed in their jobs.
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CheckPoint 360°™
The CheckPoint Management System is a 360-degree assessment. It is used primarily to evaluate the
effectiveness of your managers and leaders. This assessment combines feedback from direct reports,
peers, supervisors, and even customers with a personalized program for developing specific leadership
skills based on that feedback. This process highlights a manager’s job performance in eight universal
management competencies: communication, leadership, adaptability, relationships, task management,
production, development of others, and personal development.
The CheckPoint 360 helps managers identify and prioritize their own development opportunities. And it
helps the organization to better focus management training and development investments; proactively
uncover misaligned priorities between senior executives and front-line managers; and surface
management issues that could lead to low employee productivity, morale, job-satisfaction, and
increased turnover.
Profiles Managerial Fit ™ (PMF)
People typically don’t quit their companies, they quit their bosses. Profiles Managerial Fit (PMF)
measures critical aspects of compatibility between a manager and their employees. This report offers
an in-depth look at one’s approach to learning, as well as six critical dimensions of compatibility with
their manager: self-assurance, conformity, optimism, decisiveness, self-reliance, and objectivity.
Managers use this information for adapting their styles in order to get the most from each employee;
improve communication; increase engagement, satisfaction, and productivity; and reduce employee
turnover.
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Workplace Engagement Survey (WES)
Our Workplace Engagement Survey (WES) measures the degree to which your employees connect
with their work and feel committed to the organization and its goals. This gives you and your
management team a detailed view of what influences engagement across all of your workforce
segments and how your employees compare statistically to the overall working population.
In addition, the WES measures “satisfaction with employer” and “satisfaction with manager” across
your entire organization, and gives recommendations for your organization to improve.
Profiles Skills Tests (PST)
Profiles International provides comprehensive assessments to measure essential knowledge and
skills. We use powerful technologies, such as performance-based testing, which simulates popular
software products like Microsoft Office, to ensure an accurate and reliable assessment of
knowledge, skills, and abilities. Our skills assessments cover Software Skills, Clerical Skills, Call
Center Skills, Accounting and Finance, Medical, Nursing, Legal, Industrial, Computer Literacy, Retail,
Food Services, Information Technology, Staffing, and Human Resources.
Employee Background Checks (EBC)
Profiles International provides comprehensive employee background checks for our clients. These
include Consumer Credit Reports, Criminal History Record, Drivers' History Report (DMV), Education
Verification, Employment History Verification, Foreign Nationals Terrorist Sanctions Search (OFAC,
CLFST & OSFI), Identity Verification Search, Incarceration Records Search, Military Service
Verification, Cursory Nationwide Criminal Index Database Search (CNID), and many more.
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Profiles Loyalty Pro™ (PLP)
Profiles LoyaltyPro™ is a web-based customer loyalty surveying tool. Loyalty, as determined
through the “voice of the customer,” is a leading indicator that predicts the “staying power” of an
account.
Profiles LoyaltyPro offers companies a tool to gather ongoing, critical account intelligence that helps
them assess the relationship between the buyer and the supplier, ultimately driving the action plan
to improve customer service. Having insight into your customer’s perception of your relationship
allows you to steer the strategic business efforts and initiatives of the account management teams
to continually improve customer relationships and build a network of loyal customers.
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