Employee assessment firm The Omnia Group is tackling staff performances with a focus on personality traits and effective management styles.
Omnia Group’s chief revenue officer, Keather Snyder, led a webinar May 11. Snyder highlighted effective performance conversations, including clearly defined performance goals, frequent feedback and regular meetings to discuss development needs. Snyder said effective performance conversations should take place regularly rather than annually.
When it comes to common perspectives in the workplace, Snyder said 98% of businesses believe performance management is important, but only 64% believe they have an effective approach. Only 40% of company employees are truly engaged, she said.
“Engaged means they are happy in their roles, feel fulfilled in their roles and contributing to the organization in a productive way,” Snyder said. She said Omnia Group found 68% of employees feel engaged with accurate and consistent feedback.
When it performance evaluations are given, Snyder said conducting conversations based on individual traits, as opposed to a general template, makes discussions meaningful.
“No two people are ever alike, we all have different strengths, experiences and fields we have developed,” Snyder said. The more a manager understands an individual employee’s background, experiences and values, Snyder said, the more effective performance talks become.
The Omnia Group identified various personality types based on a person’s assertiveness, communication, adaptability and structure needs. Tuesday’s webinar highlighted four: Visionary, Analytic, Advisor and Logistical Driver.
With a Visionary type, Snyder said individuals are motivated by opportunities to advance, public praise and flexible guidelines that can evolve over time. On the other hand, a person could be an Analytic – someone motivated by a supportive culture, team-oriented environment and task diversity with clearly defined expectations.
When it comes to management, catering to an individual’s needs is among the most effective ways to boost workplace productivity, Snyder said. An Advisor personality type loses motivation by being rushed, a poor social environment and focusing on data-intensive detail work with no variation. The insight gives managers pointers when figuring out how to best boost performance.
Established in 1985, The Omnia Group provides workforce assessments that cover 200 specific job benchmarks in multiple industries. Each month, a specific theme is chosen for Omnia’s educational online segment, “Takeaway Tuesdays.”
“Each month Omnia selects a theme that is inspired by either current events, seasonal topics and where business are in the annual business cycle,” the company stated. “Given that we are approaching the mid-year mark, we thought performance management and performance improvement would be a good theme for this month, as we think about the importance of on-going performance development, goal setting and goal review, and how important it is to do this throughout the year, not just one time per year.”
May’s webinar saw 107 registrants and 37 attendees.
Next month, the company will host its “Camp Omnia” event. The live Q&A enables business owners to ask experts about topics such as remote work challenges, effective communication, behavioral insight and coaching a team. Camp Omnia will take place at 10:30 a.m. MST June 8. Those interested can register here.
