News | October 28, 2004

SHL Introduces Team Impact Reports

SHL's Team Development Solution Helps Enterprises Assemble Optimally Productive Work Groups and Efficiently Evaluate Employees' Team-skills

Chicago, IL - SHL, the world leader in objective assessment, today announced the availability of SHL Team Impact Reports. SHL's Team Impact Reports provide enterprises with a standardized, accurate and impartial tool to diagnose group and individual development needs. SHL's new tool enables companies to determine the impact specific employees will have on overall team performance, and how their relative strengths may compliment the group's overall performance.

Every day U.S. companies assemble new work teams, expand teams, merge teams or replace departing team members. In today's global economy, enterprises are also tasked with developing optimal virtual teams that may work remotely from disparate company sites. However, few enterprises base team building and team evaluation decisions on any objective assessment of characteristics of the individuals or the team.

SHL's Team Impact Reports provide a detailed view of both the individual's and the team's strengths and developmental needs. The reports provide an effective evaluation of how the unique strengths of individual performers will influence a team's overall performance.

"Every day the sports-world demonstrates how delicate and important team chemistry is to achieving overall success," said Bruce Sevy, Vice President of Product Consulting for SHL Americas. "In the corporate world, creating a winning team, or adding or removing team-mates also dramatically impacts dynamics and overall organizational success. Now, SHL provides the missing tools to isolate and effectively evaluate the critical factors contributing to team cohesion and productivity at the corporate level. Team Impact Reports are solutions that will enable enterprises to reduce costs, speed decision-making and improve the quality of team-based work."

SHL's Team Impact Reports focus on eight key categorizations of behavior that influence team performance. The tools produce qualitative measurement in the area of: resisting pressure; exploring possibilities; evaluating options; setting direction; committing to action; using networks; maintaining cohesion and staying focused. The Team Impact Reports are business-focused and SHL has developed, tested and validated them in a wide variety of organizational cultures and settings to ensure that they can be applied to virtually any team.

For more details on the development and use of SHL's Team Impact Reports, visit www.SHL.com.

About SHL Group, PLC
SHL is the world-leading provider of psychometric assessment and development solutions. The company supports organizations in the selection, recruitment, promotion, succession planning and development of talented people at all levels and across all sectors. Operating in 40 countries and more than 30 languages, the SHL Group devises innovative approaches to help organizations increase productivity and gain competitive advantage through the more effective use of their human capital. SHL has over 5,500 organizations as clients, including many of the Global and Times Top 1000, and is recognized as the foremost provider of objective assessment products in the world. For more information, please visit www.SHL.com.

Established in 1990, SHL Americas has offices in Boulder, Chicago, New York and Toronto and employs more than 70 occupational assessment professionals. Customers include: Neiman Marcus, IBM, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Novartis, The United Nations, and American Express.

SHL Americas also offers a broad array of services to assist attorneys and their clients throughout employment discrimination cases.

Source: SHL Group, PLC