Organization Results
Talent Selection
Within our company and within my teams, SuccessFinder is a key ingredient to our “secret sauce.” The multidimensional assessment provided by SuccessFinder enhances candidate interviews, enables high-performing team dynamics, and identifies promotional candidates most likely to succeed in a new position. The Talent Garden truly builds personal and organization leadership capacity.
David J. Pavey CPA, CA, HBA, CFO and SVP Finance & Corporate Services Morrison Hershfield Engineering
Corporate Performance (Value to Company/Employer)
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Dave Brereton, Chairman of the Board, Tecsys Inc., CEO Darbre Inc.
I continue to be delighted and amazed at the deep insight, predictive accuracy and business value gained by engaging Barry Pettit and, in turn his use of the SuccessFinder Career Assessment to select senior management personnel who will best enable us to excel.
The predictive accuracy and deep insight gained by Barry Pettit's use of the SuccessFinder Career Assessment is so beneficial to our businesses that I insist on its use with each of our subsidiary companies.
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MIke Fox, VP of Operations, Symposium Restaurants
SuccessFinder assessments helped us to a gain a deeper insight into finding best career fit, inherent talent, greatest behavioral strengths and constraints that stood in the way of achieving our full potential. We have found SuccessFinder to be the most accurate in assessing current and new franchisee owners, and has been a contributing factor to profit growth as a result of selection and developing franchise owners.
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David J. Pavey CPA, CA, HBA CFO and SVP Finance & Corporate Services Morrison Hershfield Engineering
The SuccessFinder assessment is thorough and amazingly accurate. It identified the gaps between who I thought I was, who I really am and how others may view me.
Within our company and within my teams, SuccessFinder is a key ingredient to our “secret sauce.” The multidimensional assessment provided by SuccessFinder enhances candidate interviews, enables high-performing team dynamics, and identifies promotional candidates most likely to succeed in a new position.
The Talent Garden truly builds personal and organization leadership capacity.
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Christine Bosley, Broker of Record, Bosley Real Estate
At Bosley, we implemented the SuccessFinder assessment on a variety of different levels. This assisted us in completing a successful leadership[ succession, a training plan for our leadership team and a fully documented recruiting guide.
Leadership Effectiveness/Development
As an executive coach, Barry used the SuccessFinder to understand my work style and management habits. Gaining insight into my competency profile compared to other high-performing executives was worth its weight in gold.
Wes Moon, COO, Co-Founder, IT Start Up
Coaching Expertise
Reading the reports is certainly powerful and has its credibility; however, I found Barry’s ability to create context and prepare me to get the most out of this process a critical step. His experience with and exposure to various industries, organizations, and leaders was instrumental in adding depth and engagement to my journey and understanding as we dissected the data together. Barry’s sincere interest, expertise, curiosity, and empathy helped me understand the process and the resources/information we went through.
Jim Waechter, VP Marketing, International Retailer
Executive/CEO Experience
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Marc Beisheim, CPA, CA
SuccessFinder provided me with insights into my inherent talents, behavioral strengths and leadership style that I would never have fully discerned on my own. I’d always been a top performer in very challenging environments. However, my assessment results transformed me as a C-Suite executive by equipping me with a clear understanding of not just what I innately did well, but also what weaknesses and biases I manifest that stood in the way of being even more influential and effective as a leader.
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Ryan Henry, CTO
As someone well established my career, the Talent Garden process brought a refreshing perspective to the typical strength/weakness assessments. The results helped connect the dots between some behaviors that were limiting the effectiveness of my communication.
Value for Leaders
I found that SuccessFinder provided an excellent opportunity to review my own perceived strengths and weaknesses against a more objective measure. The resulting discussion is helping me assess the direction, role and job I wanted to grow and areas that need immediate improvement.
Brad Olsthoorn, COO
Team Leadership/Performance/Effectiveness
I engaged Barry to assess and assist our senior leadership team to improve team and individual effectiveness using the SuccessFinder Career Assessment. By assessing the behavioral strengths and constraints of our team members with the help of the SuccessFinder assessment, Barry enabled team members to gain deep insight into how we can better leverage our current behavioral strengths and collaborative engagement to improve our productivity, solutions, results, motivational drivers, self-efficacy and working relationships.
John Friesen, CEO, MBC
Professional and Personal Development
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Jim Waechter, VP Marketing, International Retailer
The combination of the science and how it is interpreted and shared throughout the process truly resonated with me. Reading the reports and discussing them in depth with Barry felt, at times, like an exciting window into my soul, thoughts, and experiences accumulated over my career. Being able to define how I felt, my priorities, and what was important to me at this time of my life was powerful, enabling, and extremely satisfying.
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Jim Waechter, VP Marketing, International Retailer
I remained in retail, which I didn’t expect initially as a next step; however, I am so very glad I did – the insights gained during my consultation encouraged me to do this while finding a role that balanced my purpose, family, and community priorities – which I was able to do.
I have a much clearer picture of the areas I can work on to grow, both as a leader and as an individual. In addition to areas of growth, I have practical ways to approach my growth goals, and how to leverage my strengths as I work to improve in areas that aren't in my natural preferences
As a senior leader at my company, the clarity I've gained after working with Barry has improved how I lead my team. As I work on my own growth, my team's performance and satisfaction at work are notably improving as well. I am in a much better position to focus them on high impact activities that benefit my team, my company, and most importantly, our clients.
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Marc Beisheim, CPA, CA
SuccessFinder provided me with insights into my inherent talents, behavioral strengths and leadership style that I would never have fully discerned on my own. I’ve always been a top performer in very challenging environments. However, my assessment results transformed me as a C-Suite executive by equipping me with a clear understanding of not just what I innately did well but also what weaknesses and biases I manifested that stood in the way of being even more influential and effective as a leader.
Clarity of Best Career Path/Choices
I knew that my personal and professional priorities had changed/shifted; however, I wasn’t sure how to gain clarity on that or objectively rank them. The work I did with Barry, the consultations, and the SuccessFinder data illustrated quite clearly, objectively, scientifically, and credibly where my priorities are now. I would not have had the clarity needed to be as confident and as comfortable in taking my ‘next steps’.
Jim Waechter, VP Marketing, International Retailer
Team Leadership and Effectiveness
It has created a greater clarity and appreciation for each team member's unique contribution to the team and also helped us create space for our own limitations without getting frustrated. Understanding one another better (in terms of our behaviors) has helped increase a sense of unity among team members.