DDI Research Results: Client & Impact Analysis

Looks at results of 6-day training program with selection and leadership components.

Examines an efficient, accurate process for hiring new store managers featuring Leader Career Battery.

This paper presents an analysis of participants’ perceptions of DDI’s assessment center process. Assessment centers have a greater impact when they appear to be job relevant and results of this analysis suggest DDI’s assessments are achieving this goal.

Introducing a leadership development program to help them become an employer of choice.

Targeting leader skills to improve recruitment and interviewing.

Using Targeted Selection to yield a greater number of viable candidates through the screening process.

Improving leadership competencies to implement a high-involvement culture.

Giving front-line leaders a broader understanding of business operations with DDI's Making Sense of Business.

Your staff is your only guarantee in a health care environment. Your people have to be your one constant to ensure that your organization delivers high quality care while constantly improving patient safety, patient satisfaction, and reducing errors—all in a cost effective manner.

What’s the secret to selecting great leaders? These organizations know. This report highlights a number of organizations in various industries that took steps to improve the selection and promotion of frontline leaders to ultimately advance the organization as a whole.

Aligning a hiring system to other HR systems through competencies.

Running of series of Acceleration Centres for 61 middle managers as part of its commitment to leader development.

Program for developing critical skills that would set up new and emerging leaders for success.

Looking at BDC's Practicing Leaders Transitional Leadership Program, a 4-month comprehensive program using behavioral assessment, formal training, learning journals, and manager coaching.

Exploring the impact of their Getting Results Workshop, created from DDI courses to address the needs and competencies identified as important for employees’ careers.

Instituting a new Performance Management Process to deliver financial benefits and employee engagement.

This document summarizes past DDI research regarding ability to produce behavior change. Summarized results state

A leadership development program founded in IM:EX was implemented for frontline leaders.

Looking at an executive assessment and development process to prepare high potential leaders to step into future vacancies at higher organizational levels.

Examining a proactive training program to strengthen leadership and to improve quality, reduce turnover, and enhance the overall culture of the organization.

Exploring a comprehensive leadership development program for managers to provide the skills to coach, manage, and lead their teams effectively.

Leadership development program that would have the most direct impact on their performance and that of their direct reports.

Delivering Top Talent Through Employment Testing

Discover how using Targeted Selection® to transform the interview experience can ultimately impact organizational performance.

Looking at training programme, Managing@Dell, to focus on performance management and people management skills.

This study spotlights just a few of the evidence-based business results realized from recent employment testing and assessment engagements with DDI clients.

Comprehensive development program that focuses on maximizing performance and employee development.

Ramping up front-line supervisors to help drive realization of EG&G’s total mission success.

Examining an organizational development program that improved engagement as well as the coaching and management skills of leaders.

Customized Leadership Excellence program to retain the right people while providing them with skills for success.

Results of Fifth Third's Fundamentals of Leadership development program for emerging leaders.

Development process for strategic, operational and front-line leaders.

DDI designed and implemented a selection process featuring its Sales Insight Inventory (SII).

Development to help leaders become more effective in today's global marketplace.

Trainees reported a 45 percent improvement in the number of leaders displaying positive leadership behaviors after attending the Training Checkpoint program.

Development for 24 engineers in management positions.

Looking at a comprehensive assessment built around the competencies needed for success at the director level.

Global evaluation of Holcim's Leading for Accelerated Performance and Growth (LEAP) leadership development program.

This document summaries past research on DDI's ability to select high quality candidates. Results state

Examining DDI's FastTrackSelect™ (FTS), an online system to attract, screen, and manage applicants for sales representative positions.

DDI's tool, Training CheckPoint was used to examine the impact of the development program.

Research around the Patient Services Career Battery developed by DDI for use as a tool to select applicants into Patient Services positions within the client’s facilities.

Improving basic leadership skills allow all managers to understand and practice the company’s standard of managing with dignity and respect.

Study of 14 clients across various industries regarding bottom-line impact of leadership development systems. Forty percent of organizations reported a return between $50,000 and $200,000.

This summary illustrates the effectiveness of DDI leadership development programs at four levels of evaluation: program reactions, knowledge skill changes, behavior and performance changes, and organizational impact (including ROI).

Development solution to build skills that maxmize employee performance.

These research results show how organizations attribute $24 million in positive changes a year to MAX. MAX positively affects employee productivity and customer satisfaction.

Examines the results of McKesson's program, 365 to High Performance, which includes 6 IM: EX® courses.

A unique, multifaceted succession management initiative to identify high-potentials and prepare them for senior-level positions.

Customer service training to build a service culture.

Organizational development program that made a significant impact on its leaders’ ability to create an environment that is open, efficient, and engaging.

Development to keep ahead of industry competitors.

Implementing a performance management system consistently organization-wide.

Overall, ROI impact summary of 52 organizations implementing one or more of the following DDI programs: Leadership Development, Service Culture, Targeted Selection, or Workforce Effectiveness.

Supplying greater opportunities for employee professional advancement and personal development to drive company growth.

Becoming more effective in the marketplace through leadership development.

Patient Services Career Battery Realization results at a large group of teaching hospitals are examined in this research results document, including the relationship of the PSCB to job performance, job satisfaction, and more.

A general summary of results for all DDI interventions. Focus is on results pertaining to Return on Investment (ROI) analyses and behavior change after administration of DDI interventions.

This document shows the monetary impact of Maximizing Performance on 15 organizations across various industries. Respondents were asked to compare MAX to their previous performance management system.

Development to retain right people and help them drive performance.

A systemwide curriculum to demonstrate strong leadership capability, engage staff, and meet or exceed organizational goals.

Developing senior leaders show significant improvement in critical leadership behaviors and in organizational outcomes.

Developing associates lead to significant behavior change and improvements in organizational outcomes.

Comprehensive development program focused on a unique set of leader competencies.

This document summarizes past research on DDI's ability to reduce turnover. Overall findings state.

DDI's clients have confidence that their test results accurately predict success for their organizations. This document represents validation study results from various companies in a number of industries that have used our pre-employment assessments

This executive summary provides information about the Retaining Talent Benchmarking Study conducted by DDI's HR Benchmark Group. Responses were gathered from 745 employees and 118 HR professionals.

Building leadership skills for a tight economy.

This paper compares U.S. and Thai candidate reactions to the Targeted Selection interview process and outcomes. It also compares managers' reactions to using Targeted Selection interviews in Asia and the U.K.

Study of 14 clients across various industries regarding bottom-line impact of Targeted Selection. Positive outcomes associated with the use of Targeted Selection ranged from $1,000 to over $2 million.

These research results show how Sensis Australia experiences a $2.2 MM ROI by better managing staff performance.

Comprehensive leadership curriculum, reflecting its commitment to personal and career development.

Customer service skill development to help realize its customer commitment charter.

Performance management system that helps employees focus their performance and provides organizational clarity by linking individuals’ performance to the organization’s goals and values.

Multifaceted solution designed to enhance leader competence, improve selection accuracy, and address leaders’ long-term development needs.

Summarizes results from various industries using Targeted Selection. Shows how TS reduces turnover, predicts on-the-job success, helps management make better hiring decisions, improves interviewing skills, and leads to improved customer satisfaction.

Discover how using Targeted Selection® to transform the interview experience can ultimately impact organizational performance.

To ensure long-term success of newly hired or promoted managers, a four-day program called Leadership Skills for Managers was offered.

Using Web-based training to expand options and reduce costs.

Tenet needed leaders to demonstrate competency in skills key to the success of the organization so they created the Tenet Leaders Program for front-line to CEO.

Customized Performance Management to create an accountable and productive culture aligned with corporate strategy.

In this study we surveyed 119 mid- and senior-level leaders from 22 organizations who had participated in some type of executive assessment center.

These research results examine reactions from over 1,000 participants in DDI’s Strategic Leadership Experience

This report compiles data collected by DDI's Training QuickCheck tool that demonstrates the value of IM:EX training in 11 small- to medium-size organizations.

Customized customer service to retain more customers.

Customized development for new and experienced leaders plus a parallel senior management orientation session to develop process champions to ensure success.

Aggregates data from 22 organizations to demonstrate the value of IM:EX® on leaders and their teams, and proves that behavior modeling still works.

This report compiles research results and the bottom-line impact that organizations have experienced using DDI’s workforce development tools. Studies conducted on the following products are included in the report: Techniques for a High-Performance Workforce, Service Plus, Maximizing Performance, and OPAL.

DDI conducted a study of 12 clients across various industries regarding the bottom-line impact of DDI's workforce effectiveness practices. This study assessed the performance of DDI interventions versus other interventions they had previously used. The range of return on investment (per person) was $2,227 to $6,964. All organizations (100%) reported a positive impact on productivity and quality.

Selection system design with competency/job analysis and interviewing training.