"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their
lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently,
almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal
security and openness and a spirit of adventure" (Author:
Stephen Covey).
Where a resume can trace an individual's history, and a personality
profile can categorize a person by traits, only by understanding
motivation can we clearly see where an individual's talents, desires
and potential lie. Personal motivations in categories like temperament,
aptitude and vocational interests can be identified and rated
according to their intensity. By charting these motivations, we
can provide an understanding of the intricacies that keep individuals
happy, thriving and effective in their work.
MAPP™ (Motivational Appraisal of Personal
Potential) is a tool used to create more productive and efficient
organizations. It is based on a comprehensive and integrated
personal inventory for understanding motivation and potential…it
allows employers to make the most successful employees benchmarks
for others…it enables businesses to hire more thoughtfully
and accurately and to build healthier and more efficient
teams…it facilitates wise promotion decisions…it
can target specific areas for training…it reduces
turnover by accurately matching individuals to their positions.
And, in turn, it helps keep employees satisfied and productive.
Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential gives companies
an unprecedented glimpse into what makes individuals who they
are and who they can be. Combine the MAPP™ of many employees,
and one has access to a digital talent pool that can help utilize
people in the best way possible, whether a business is growing
and changing, merging, reorganizing or downsizing. It provides
powerful insight needed for building stronger organizations.
The MAPP™ APPRAISAL can be used to:
- Improve employee development
- Facilitate career planning and training
- Enhance leadership development
- Help with succession planning
- Promote strategically
- Assist with job transfers and outplacement
- Strengthen morale and productivity
- Reduce turnover and job stress
- Organize more efficient teams
- Create job profiles
- Facilitate hiring decisions
MAPP™
is a tool used to support growth in a personal and/or professional
environment by clearly identifying an individual's unique potential.
Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential helps to identify
personal motivations in several categories, including temperament,
aptitude and learning style. The results can guide individuals
on a career or personal path, or validate one they are already
on. The assessment identifies characteristics that help to indicate
a strong motivation to do, or avoid doing, certain things. For
example, an individual may be capable of something, but if she/he
hates it, and if it were a significant part of her/his daily responsibilities,
it might undermine strengths and become a liability.
MAPP™ is a simple-to-administer appraisal system that organizes
an individual's motivations into objective, quantified and intuitive
formats. It requires only 20 to 25 minutes to complete over the
Internet. The assessment consists of 71 sets of triads from which
the individual selects options most and least preferred. Results
are available in a variety of forms, including a personalized
narrative report. Customized charts are included which compare
the individual's personal traits with those required for specific
jobs/vocations.
Components of the assessment include the measurement of an individual's:
- Interest in job content
- Temperament for the job
- Aptitude for the job
- Reasoning and thinking style
- Mathematical capability
- Language levels
- Personal style
- Personal traits
- Interpersonal & social tendencies
- Learning style
- Orientation to people
- Affinity for objects and things
- Approach to data and information
Languages currently available: English; Spanish; Polish; Swedish;
German; French, and Portuguese.
MAPP™ measurements provide valuable insight (explicitly
graphed and interpreted in extensive and easy-to-read narratives)
that can help predict a candidate's or employee's future success
in any given position. See example of a partial printout below:
PEOPLE (PE) (Items in each line are depicted in the corresponding
graph. Sectors filled in with more shading indicate a higher motivation
to do what is described in each line.
PE_4 Entertain: to deliberately influence others
PE_6 Service communication: voluntarily inform others
PE_0 Mentor: size up people, personalities, motives
PE_2 Instruct: teach, train, influence, demonstrate
PE_5 Persuade: assertively influence, convince others
PE_3 Supervise: plan, manage work activity of others
PE_7 Social service directly benefiting others
PE_1 Negotiate: confront, communicate to achieve goal
THINGS
(TH)
TH_4 Manipulate: physically manage material processes
TH_7 Handling: basic routine manual labor
TH_3 Drive/Operate mobile and heavy equipment
TH_6 Feeding-offbearing: manual labor timed by machine
TH_2 Operate/Control: on-site machine operation
TH_5 Tending: monitoring/adjusting gauges, switches
TH_1 Precision/Quality: technical, mechanical standards
TH_0 Engineering: technical planning, installation
Structure of MAPP™ Programs:
- Document sent to participants with explanation of company
objectives ("How to take MAPP™ on the Internet" steps
to be delineated in above document)
- Participant takes assessment online
- MAPP™ consultation with each participant (1-1 _ hours)
to discuss results of appraisal
- Application of elements of appraisal to need(s) of client
- Evaluation and discussion workshop addressing value and application
of components of MAPP™ (optional)
