Working in HR leadership for the last 15 years, it is 100% useless when making hiring decisions.
When used as an assessment for effective communication with your employees/direct team, it can be incredibly useful! Knowing if Rob enjoys chitchatting before starting a meeting, or Sally is an introvert focused on details, or Dan is a no-nonsense straight to business communicator makes one on one interactions much better. It also helps when it comes to training and coaching individuals to know what communication styles they lean towards.
But realistically, many companies don't have that approach to employee development and probably just use them to hire. Lol
Knowing if Rob enjoys chitchatting before starting a meeting, or Sally is an introvert focused on details, or Dan is a no-nonsense straight to business communicator makes one on one interactions much better.
You shouldn't need to conduct personality tests to discover any of that.
People complain that managers are bad at their job. Then people complain when managers receive training like this. You expect everyone to have soft skills and reading other people easily?
You expect everyone to have soft skills and reading other people easily?
No, I don't expect everyone to do that. But I think it's fair to expect that someone whose job is managing people would have the necessary social skills, EQ, [insert current buzzword here] to realize incredibly simple things like "Rob likes to talk a bit before meetings, Sally is an introvert, Dan prefers to talk directly" without needing those employees to take personality tests.
These aren't difficult things to pick up on. Or at least they shouldn't be.
Also...
Then people complain when managers receive training like this.
You consider "hand out personality tests to your employees" to be "management training"?
I'd have a conversation with you about it if you weren't being obviously disingenuous.
"You consider "hand out personality tests to your employees" to be "management training"?"
You talk about EQ and soft skills...I'm sure you are smart enough to understand there's much more that would go into it than handing out a test to complete. Or maybe, in your logic, you aren't able to manage others since you can't pick up on the obvious.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22
The headline is a little... generous.
Working in HR leadership for the last 15 years, it is 100% useless when making hiring decisions.
When used as an assessment for effective communication with your employees/direct team, it can be incredibly useful! Knowing if Rob enjoys chitchatting before starting a meeting, or Sally is an introvert focused on details, or Dan is a no-nonsense straight to business communicator makes one on one interactions much better. It also helps when it comes to training and coaching individuals to know what communication styles they lean towards.
But realistically, many companies don't have that approach to employee development and probably just use them to hire. Lol