Most organizations have formal or informal reporting systems set up to understand employee performance, including undertaking various assessments when they’re hired, during regular performance reviews, and at exit interviews. However, these feedback mechanisms are often subjective based on peer and manager reviews or analytical based on specific actions — but rarely are they objective through direct, comprehensive measurements. Even measurements based on business performance metrics all too regularly fail to consider the differences that individuals bring to the organization.
Reflect/EF Objective Assessment
At Reflective Performance, we see just how much that the latest research and applications of cognitive science can create a better way. Our Co-Founders Stephanie M. Carlson, PhD, and Philip D. Zelazo, PhD are leaders in the brain science of executive function and how it relates to the measurement and empowerment of human performance and potential.
Most of the kinds of assessment tools used by organizations today are unable to get to the source of how people make decisions and apply information effectively. They commonly assess employees based on specific work functions or performance models, then assess employees and customers based on historic data.
But people are more complex than this. Even when working together as part of a team or organization, every employee remains an individual with different skills, experiences, and brain capacities. Reflective Performance’s assessment technology takes this into consideration, which enables new breakthroughs in understanding and supporting every level of any organization. Our tools provide direct, unfiltered, and unbiased results from a software-based game that challenges participants to respond accurately within certain time periods to gain an accurate view of three fundamental executive function skills: cognitive flexibility, working memory, and impulse control.
Reflect/EF Executive Function Assessment
Our game-like app is designed to be easy to use and complete online. Introduced by a video meant to improve awareness of executive function, the game takes all of five minutes and yet allows for a deep analysis of executive function, followed by a rich composite view of personal performance strengths and weaknesses — including pointers as to where executive function skills can be either inhibitors or enablers for personal quality of life and workplace success. These pointers are then able to be applied to specific work requirements, tasks, and skills that need to be learned and kept in-place.
While Reflective Performance’s app is taken individually, the results can be aggregated and extended across teams, departments, functions, and locations. Composite analyses show the importance of neurodiversity for organizations seeking to unleash the full value of team and group performance. In addition, executive performance skills can be improved through training programs. By supporting development of these self-management skills, employers can benefit directly in all areas of their business .
Reflect/EF Three-part Cognitive Assessment
What stands out about these assessments is how they apply across the extended employment lifecycle, leading to self-directed training and repeat assessments at different points of training, career advancement, and job changes. The overriding principle behind our measurement technology is with sustainability in mind — leading to personal improvement benefits for employees and their organizations.
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