Shadowmatch: The “What” questions.
What is Shadowmatch?
1. Shadowmatch is a sophisticated worksheet enabling companies to determine what the critical success factors in terms of behavioral habits, attitude, efficiency and conceptual ability are for people working under particular or general working conditions in a specific area of an organization.
2. The top performers complete a worksheet by answering a series of questions. The questions place the individual in a normal day to day situation. The individual then selects an answer that best describes the way he/she behaves in such a situation.
3. The answers selected by the individual are then processed by a fuzzy logic calculator that identifies behavior patterns. The identified behavior patterns (Habits) are then weighed against recurrence patterns as well as the relative strength of the behavioral indicator.
4. After completing the worksheet the algorithms in the system then generate the profile of this group,called the Benchmark or Shadow.
5. The Benchmark or Shadow can be described as the collective behavioral patterns (habits) of the group in one person that would be the best fit for the job.
6. Anyone within or outside the organization then completes the same worksheet and the system will match the result of this/these individuals with the Benchmark or Shadow.
7. The system also assists new recruits, as well as current employees to develop those areas in which they lack the relevant behavior in order to maximize their success within the organization, as well as in their own careers. This is achieved by providing the organization and the individuals with Personal Development Programs in the form of guided practical learning outcomes to develop those areas necessary for the individual to grow towards better performance in the organization or specific division
or position.
8. It is important to note that different areas in an organization will have different success profiles/benchmarks. This benchmark is determined by the group of successful employees working in that division. Shadowmatch can create a unique benchmark for each division in the business. It can then match an outsider to all the benchmarks in the company in order to determine where the best fit for the individual will be.
1. Creates a benchmark of the habits of the successful employees in a specific environment doing a specific job.
2. Creates a Recruitment Specification against a specific benchmark.
3. Compares individuals to this benchmark and provides results on the match.
4. Provides a complete Matching Report.
5. Provides a full Interview Pack based on the profile of the Shadow / benchmark.
6. Provides a full, integrated Personal Feedback Report
7. Provides specific Personal Development Programs based on the matching results.
What are the key differentiators?
1. Fully internet based system
2. Does not depend on self-insight by the candidate – no room for manipulation
3. Fully automated system that requires minimal human intervention – no need for additional consultants
4. Comprehensive reporting for both the candidate and the company
5. Immediate results with extreme accuracy
6. Full multi-match capability (one to many, many to one) – hiring and redeployment
7. Self-managed, company specific dashboard environment
8. No generic norm formation or ideal job/role profile, Generate a dynamic benchmark based on the top performers for each job/role/team/department.
1. Precision Recruitment – A business and job unique benchmark made up of top performers is used to recruit and develop individuals for best performance in a job. The system provides interview packs and system based comparisons between the behavioral patterns (habits) of an individual compared to that of top performers in the business doing a specific job under specific condition.
2. Personal Development – The system assists new recruits, as well as current employees to develop those areas in which they lack the right behavioral habits in order to maximize their success in a specific position or division. This is achieved by providing Personal Development Programs in the form of guided practical learning outcomes to develop those areas necessary for the individual to grow towards better performance in the organization or specific division or position. These programs are customized for the specific context of the given position.
3. Career Development – Shadowmatch assists the business and the individual in finding a career path that works for the success of both. It matches an individual to top performers and highlights positions / roles / divisions in which the individual will be successful.
4. Talent Identification – Shadowmatch enables an employer to create a benchmark of the most talented individuals in the business. The company database of employees can now be searched for other talented individuals that could be developed for deployment into key future positions in a business.
5. Succession Planning – Succession planning as a structured framework towards replacing key people in the business with equally competent individuals when the former moves on is a serious challenge.
Shadowmatch is the perfect system to successfully meet this challenge.
6. Placement Audit – Shadowmatch has in many instances been used to do a placement audit of a division or an entire company. The outcome is an indication of employees that are placed in positions where they have a propensity to fail as well as development actions that will help them grow their success.
7. Team Building – Shadowmatch enables the facilitation of a powerful and constructive team building session. It empowers individuals and teams by giving them insight into their own behavioral patterns as well as the habit patterns of the team.
8. Conflict Facilitation – The Shadowmatch capability of matching the behavioral patterns of two individuals that are not getting along enables the user to identify the reasons for the conflict. Shadowmatch also successfully assists in finding the reasons for team conflict.
9. Redeployment of People / Restructuring – Shadowmatch enables the user to precision place people. If a department closes down or a merger happens, the tool is very useful and accurate in finding the best role and division to place individuals.
10. Leadership Identification – Once the most successful leaders in the business have been identified, the tool enables the user to search through all the ranks in the business for individuals that show the same behavioral patterns as the successful leaders. These individuals can now be developed towards being a successful future leader in the business.
11. Coaching – The Shadowmatch results page provides insight into the behavior patterns of an individual and empowers a manager / mentor / business coach to deliver accurate and meaningful coaching.
1. Creating a business, workplace and job specific benchmark of behavioral habits for success doing that specific job in that specific environment. It offers objective precise behavioral benchmarks applicable to your business.
2. An improved return on employment cost by recruiting people with the same habits as those that have already displayed success in your business.
3. Providing personal development programs to those in need of development to improve their performance and fit in your business.
4. Providing your human resource and business management team with interview questions and an interview scoring system to ensure fair and scientific interview processes towards employing the best people for your business.
5. Creating a recruitment specification that outlines the habits most needed for a specific job.
6. Allowing you to search your database of employees and applicants in a dynamic, multifunctional manner in order to find the individual best fit for a position as well as the position best suitable to the habits of an individual – be it a current employee or an applicant to be employed.
7. By doing precision placement of people, their performance is maximized, learning a new job happens much quicker and job satisfaction improves. This delivers a positive and motivated workforce that could radically change the success of your business.
Introduction to Shadowmatch
Competitive discussion points:
1. The larger players provide a range of service as an integrated solution such as applicant tracking, training, recruitment, assessments (skills, psychometric, behavior, personality, etc.) They often use third party integrated assessment tools.
2. Most players are in the space of psychometric and personality testing which Shadowmatch is not!
3. Competitors often mandate consulting and long setup times before becoming useful.
4. In almost all instances the behavioral assessment is very weak and open to manipulation due to the
nature of the assessment (pick the attributes from the list that describes you best …..)
5. Shadowmatch is not a skill test, a psychometric test or a personality test but measures the behavioral habits, attitude, efficiency and conceptual ability of a candidate. It is classified as an “in-basket simulation” exercise to determine the fit for job or context (environment).
6. Almost all the competitors have a manual process to create the benchmark for each role/job by selecting and deciding on the key attributes together with the customer. Other use so called “standard industry/job/role profiles” which Shadowmatch research has proven to be false as the benchmark is always determined by the context of the job and will differ from company to company or department to department, etc. Shadowmatch dynamically creates the benchmark for each job/role/team based on the results of the top performers measuring stability and congruency to determine the validity of the benchmark.
7. The Shadowmatch assessment questions is abstract and cannot be linked to the result when taking the test providing a fully objective and repeatable result as it is almost impossible to manipulate the results other than to totally disregard the outcome by just blindly selecting the first option for each question as an example.
8. Shadowmatch key strengths:
a. Highly accurate an objective assessments
b. Dynamic benchmark creation
c. No requirement for consultants, can be self-managed
d. Instant results with no human intervention
e. Can instantly match an individual to multiple benchmarks to find the best fit or match a single benchmark to a group of individuals to find the best candidate (Multi-match capability)
f. Hosted service with company specific dashboard and control
g. Built in Development Programs to bring employees closer to the benchmark
What key HR process does Shadowmatch support?
“Candidate Context Synchronization”
1. Every employee comes with two realities:
a. Set of skills
b. Set of behaviors
2. An individual can apply their skills across a wide range of context.
3. An individual’s behaviors are successful in very specific context.
The key to success is to ensure appropriate skills but to recruit, place and develop for behavioral fit.
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