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Human Resources and Diagnosis of Potential
 
Background
Subjective misjudgements on the suitability of a top executive have a disastrous effect in times of intensified competition. When considering the recruiting process and finally the salary including all social insurance costs of an executive as an investment, it should be in the interest of the "investor" to avoid unprofitable investments. This would, for example, be the case should an executive prove not to be qualified soon after taking up employment – either due to a lack of the so-called "culturally aligned fit" to the company or professional deficits which had not been recognized at the time the decision was made.

Companies therefore increasingly ask themselves with regard to a suitable and meaningful diagnosis of competencies and potential: "Are our executives with their strengths currently and in the future in the right place?" or "Does our new staff culturally fit into our organisation?".


> Sequence and methodology
Sequence and methodology
The so-called "multi-methodological approach" has been proven in the diagnosis of potential. Hence the valid measurement of a personality feature comes out best when recorded several times with various procedures. Our consultants combine, for example, established diagnosis procedures such as the "management audit" – which can be organised as individual or team audit – with self– and third party - assessment questionnaires. For every diagnosis of potential at least two consultants will be available thus ensuring different perspectives for assessments through the "multi-eye principle".

We work methodically with a close-to-practice, partly structured interview procedure developed by us which provides for a comparison with benchmarks. In addition, we orient ourselves to available company-specific competence models and/or support our clients in the development of these requirement-oriented assessment parameters. 4 heads develops company-specific concepts and methods in accordance with questions, personalities and cultural environment which means that our consultants do not make use of the "standard mould" but adapt established evaluation methods to the corporate reality perceived.




Our consultants:
The consultants of 4 heads are specialized in the area of the diagnosis of potential and have many years of experience in the assessment of specialists and executives in industrial undertakings, associations, hospitals, clinics or NGOs. In developing and evaluating methods, we work closely together with well-known universities and institutes which have focused on diagnosis of potential issues for years. With this cooperation we can guarantee the scientific basis of the methods and comprehensive competence also for the inter-cultural diagnosis of potential.