ZRG’s Walking the Talk Introduces Enhanced Taylor Assessment Tool
January 11 2024 - 6:05AM
The Walking the Talk Division of ZRG, one of the fastest growing
global talent advisory firms, today announced the introduction of
its enhanced Taylor Assessment, a tool for assessing leaders'
cultural preferences.
Developed in partnership with PsyNet, a leading psychometric
test developer, the Taylor Assessment has been built on the
intellectual capital and direct experience of Walking the Talk,
which has conducted culture assessments with hundreds of global
organizations and hundreds of thousands of individual respondents
over a 30-year period.
The Taylor Assessment is the only tool in the market that
directly measures contribution to an organization’s current or
desired future culture. It provides an invaluable addition to any
culture initiative and can be used for recruitment, leadership,
team, and organizational development. The assessment is based on
the framework first laid out by Walking the Talk founder Carolyn
Taylor.
“How do you build the right culture? By bringing in the right
people and having the right people who represent or embody the kind
of culture you want,” said Andres Fossas, product manager at ZRG’s
Walking the Talk. “If you bring in more people who embody those
traits, those characteristics, that's going to accelerate the
building of the desired culture. The Taylor assessment will help
you identify those people based on their behavioral profile,
preferences, and motivations.”
“Beyond its usefulness in recruitment, the assessment is an
amazing tool for incumbent leaders,” said Michelle Stuntz,
President, Consulting and Advisory Services at ZRG. “We are able to
quantitatively measure the culture preferences of individual
leaders and teams to better understand how they contribute to the
components of the organization’s culture that are critical for
business performance. This informs individual and team development,
as well as team composition.”
The Taylor Assessment framework has created six cultural
archetypes that companies should choose from to model their work
culture after:
Achievement
- Results Orientation
- Commerciality
- Accountability
- Risk mastery
- Prioritization
Customer-Centric
- Customer Orientation
- Curiosity
- Humility
- Market Driven
- Customer Empathy
One-Team
- Generosity
- Openness
- Collaboration
- Transparency
- Constructive Challenge
Innovation
- Courage
- Learning
- Experimentation
- Continuous Improvement
- Agility
Greater-Good
- Values-led
- Purpose-led
- Sustainability
- Long-term thinking
- Community Orientation
People-First
- Care
- Fairness
- Coaching
- Inclusion
- Empowerment
How does the Taylor Assessment work?A 30-minute
online assessment identifies the kind of culture that you are
likely to be attracted to, to thrive in, and to build around you.
It identifies the behaviors that you prefer and prioritize; the
stronger the preference, the more likely you are to demonstrate
that behavior at work.
The innovative methodology requires candidates to rank
exclusively positive statements, which reduces the risk of
candidates gaming or giving socially desirable responses. The
ranking also tends to reliably show how we make trade-offs in real
life, which enables us to make predictions about actual behavior,
and to highlight areas to probe in interviews.
While it is not a capabilities test, its insights around
individual preferences help inform recruitment decisions, guide
leadership development, and build more effective teams.
About Walking the TalkZRG’s Walking the Talk
works with companies to identify the business challenges they face
and what’s causing them at the culture level to determine the
products and services most suited to those specific requirements.
Walking the Talk provides end-to-end bespoke corporate culture
products and services, as well as stand-alone products to
accelerate culture transformation and achieve business
imperatives.
About ZRGZRG is a global talent advisory
firm that is changing the way companies hire and manage talent.
ZRG’s data-driven approach to executive and professional search has
been changing the way clients think about how to find top talent.
The company’s digital Zi platform combines talent intelligence,
candidate insights, and process improvement to dramatically deliver
executive searches quicker and with proven better results.
Today, with the help of private equity investor RFE Investment
Partners, ZRG is among the fastest growing firms in the search
industry and provides a full suite of retained search, on-demand
talent, and consulting and advisory solutions across the Americas,
Asia, Europe, and Australia.
Contact: John Mooney, Over The Moon PR, (908) 720-6057,
john@overthemoonpr.com