As a manufacturing manager, you understand the importance of having a skilled and efficient design team. If you’ve encountered our Truss Design Skills Evaluation, you know its thoroughness in assessing truss designers. This evaluation measures skills and experience across nine key areas and benchmarks them against the national average of thousands of designers we’ve tested over the years. It provides a clear understanding of a candidate’s capabilities, enabling you to make informed hiring decisions.
Imagine you’ve tested your entire department. You could then compare a candidate’s scores to those of your current team members, providing a realistic expectation of their potential contribution. Combined with phone or in-person interviews and work samples, this comprehensive evaluation arms you with valuable insights for decision-making.
But have you considered using this evaluation for your existing team? Assessing your current designers can reveal whether they are performing at their full potential. It’s not just about benchmarking potential hires; it’s a tool for overall team improvement. By evaluating your entire design team, you can identify individual strengths and weaknesses across the nine skill areas. This process can pinpoint areas for improvement, allowing you to address them effectively.
Identifying skills gaps can help you find appropriate short courses or training programs. Whether it’s improving math, design, blueprint reading, or writing skills, targeted training can significantly boost your team’s efficiency and accuracy. Organizational skills often impact design speed. Time management courses can help your team members learn to organize their tasks better and act on plans more effectively. As a manager, you might already be aware of some weaknesses within your team, but addressing them can be challenging. Instead of being the “bad guy” and taking up more of your time, a structured system can identify those needing improvement and assign tasks tracked with rewards for completion.
For instance, if Jim needs to enhance his trigonometry skills, as identified through our evaluation, you can enroll him in a short course at a community college. During annual reviews, you can set specific improvement goals, such as increasing his math scores by 50% by the next review, and attach a bonus that will serve as his incentive. This approach shifts the responsibility of improvement to the individual and their supervisor, with HR supporting the review process and any follow-up needed for the classes and training.
Investing in your team’s development will pay off for the company and the employees. By using our evaluation tools, you will be able to determine targeted training specific for each of your team members. These steps will lead to a stronger, more competent team, which in turn will help your business and your bottom line.
Please contact me if you would like to learn more about our Truss Design Skills Evaluation.