Product Overview

The Professional Enhancement Planner™ - Enterprise Edition is a user-friendly tool designed to support a number of human resource initiatives within your organization.

This tool enables organizations to design and implement an unlimited number of competency/skill profiling, self-assessment and multi-rater (360° feedback) surveys. The results can be used to:

Create skill profiles/competency models.
Identify training needs for individuals, work units/departments and the overall organization.
Identify potential high performers.
Assess pre- and post-training initiatives.
Measure performance.
Support individual and organizational succession planning efforts.
Support leadership development initiatives.

The Professional Enhancement Planner™ - Enterprise Edition is unique in that it allows your organization to own and control both the process and the data. The tool is fully customizable by the program administrators. A onetime licensing fee allows your organization to use this tool over and over again.

The Professional Enhancement Planner™ - Enterprise Edition is a stand-alone, off-the-shelf product that can be instantly implemented.

Your Program Administrator can:

Create and maintain lists of competencies/skills, definitions and behaviors by job type.
Create and maintain lists of participants and raters.
Create, distribute and process competency/skill profiling surveys.
Create, distribute and process both self-assessment and multi-rater (360° feedback) surveys.
Create and distribute Self-Directed Edition survey files allowing individuals to manage their own profiling and assessment processes. Results can be collected for analysis on a group basis.

The Enterprise Edition allows the Program Administrator (or an administrative team) to manage the profiling and assessment process entirely from one desktop. This individual can send out surveys directly to the raters, collect the results and instantly produce reports at individual, work unit/department and organizational levels. Surveys can be run as programs distributed via diskette or local area network, as Microsoft® Word documents attached to email, or as a web application on your web server.

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Create Job Profiles / Competency Models

INTERACTIONS® Competency/Skill Development Model© is pre-loaded into the program. This Model includes 50 well-researched competencies/skills commonly found in most work environments associated with the following nine competency/skill areas:

Communication Skills
Decision Making Skills
Developing Others Skills
Leadership Skills
Personal Initiative Skills
Planning Skills
Quality Skills
Relationship Skills
Safety, Health and Environment Skills

The software license includes the use of this pre-loaded model to create job profiles and self-assessment or multi-rater (360° feedback) surveys. Edits can be made to this information to further tailor it to your organization. Add any number of additional competencies/skills. If your organization already has existing competency/skill profiles, they can be entered into the Program at any time.

Many organizations struggle with creating skill profiles/competency models, taking months, even years, to complete them. Using the Professional Enhancement Planner™ - Enterprise Edition you can effectively create skill profiles/competency models within days by including others in your organization who understand the positional requirements of the job being profiled. Create, distribute and process a Profiling Survey, and use the results to finalize the skill profile/competency model. Organizations typically validate the profile/model through discussion/facilitation. Once the profiles are in place, any number of assessments can be created based on the profile created.

Profiling Surveys

Organizations using the tool are able to instantly create a competency/skill Profiling Survey and collect feedback from any number of sources.

Participants are generally those who currently hold the position, those who report to the position or those who understand the requirements of the position being profiled. It typically takes 20 to 30 minutes to complete the survey. Participants rate each competency/skill included in the survey and determine which behaviors best reflect the level of proficiency required for the position being profiled. They are also prompted for any additional competencies/skills that need to be included in the profile but did not appear in the survey. Survey responses are imported to create reports, which assist in finalizing competency/skill profiles.

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Create Self-Assessment / Multi-Rater (360° Feedback) Surveys

Depending on the desired outcome, a self-assessment, where only the individual responds to the survey, may be more appropriate than conducting a multi-source (360°) feedback process. The Administrator will also need to determine whether the survey process should be self-managed using the Self-Directed Edition or if he/she should determine who should give each Participant feedback.

The optional capability of using this tool in conjunction with the Professional Enhancement Planner™–Self-Directed Edition allows organizations to maintain a self-directed approach yet have the ability to roll up the data collected at an individual level to the organizational level. If the Administrator opts to manage the entire process, he/she determines who will provide each Participant with feedback.

For either strategy, the Administrator has the ability to determine the rating scale, rater groups, instructions for completing the survey and report interpretation information for both Individual and Group Reports.

If the Administrator opts to create a Self-Directed Skill Assessment Survey, those using the Self-Directed Edition can import the survey into their program, independently manage their own process, and then send back the results to the Administrator. Although the Administrator can generate both Individual and Group Reports, this implementation strategy enables individuals to manage their own process, significantly reducing the time required to implement the process. Individual participants can instantly generate their own Individual Assessment Report. Once surveys are completed and returned to the Administrator, he/she imports the data into the program and can instantly generate any number of reports.

Individual Reports

Group Reports

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Customization Options

The Professional Enhancement Planner™ - Enterprise Edition is uniquely designed so that you can fully customize the content. The Program comes with INTERACTIONS® Competency/Skill Development Model© pre-loaded, or we can preload your organization’s competency/skill profiles prior to installation.

You can add your own logo, the name of your initiative and select between Canadian and American spelling.

A comprehensive training session is provided. For a consultation or more information regarding pricing, system requirements and implementation strategies, contact INTERACTIONS®.