Talent Benchmarking & Assessment

Using validated market data to provide objective insights and competitor benchmarking on team performance and potential.

Getting the best out of your team is crucial for productivity and organisational performance. But how do you compare this to the rest of the market? Understanding where your team and their output sits in comparison to the industry’s top performers is crucial.

SKL Executive’s Talent Benchmarking & Assessment service is designed to examine a team’s performance and outputs and compare that to other similar teams in the market. We provide an analysis on current performance metrics, productivity, and work outputs based on existing systems set up within organisations and identify any areas of improvement.


OUR APPROACH

How we use talent benchmarking & assessment

Our philosophy is “assess, don’t test.” We use this service not as a pass/fail gateway, but as a sophisticated method to open up a richer, more insightful dialogue on your team’s performance and how it compares to top external talent. The data provides a framework to explore a candidate’s strengths, potential development areas, and their alignment with the specific demands of a role.

Our team of researchers are experts in their fields and understand the capability available across the market. We translate this complex data into practical, business-relevant language, providing you with valuable insights to support team performance.

Our Assessment Process

Our process is insightful and always handled with professionalism.

  1. Talent Performance Analysis & Benchmarking
    Based on each person’s role success profile, we select the most appropriate suite of tools include performance metrics and work outputs to assess capabilities and productivity.
  2. Competitor Benchmarking
    We then compare your team’s performance as well as the ways your organisation is measuring their outputs to other similar competitors in the market.
  3. Analysis & Interpretation
    Our team analyses the results, integrating the data with information gathered from both internal measures as well as competitor analysis to build a holistic, multi-layered profile of each individual team member and their performance.
  4. Feedback & Debrief Session
    We conduct an in-depth feedback session with you to validate the results and explore the insights and next steps.
  5. Strategic Insight & Metric Building
    Depending on the results of our findings, we work with you to develop new metrics to better monitor the performance of your team and/or conduct market mapping to consider bringing in high-performing external talent.
THE SKL EXECUTIVE DIFFERENCE

Why partner with us for talent benchmarking?

  • Industry Context
    Our team are experienced executive search professionals with a depth of knowledge in their respective industries, enabling them to provide you with a comprehensive analysis rather than generic benchmarking.
  • Validated Tools & Metrics
    We have a thorough understanding of performance metrics and how they are set up in different organisations.
  • Integrated Insight
    We don’t treat assessment as a separate step. We integrate the insights from our internal and external analyses to provide a cohesive view of the performance of your entire team.
  • Focus on Development
    Our process is constructive and respectful, providing valuable feedback that benefits your team and informs your talent development strategy.

Frequently Asked Questions

This assessment typically measures a range of factors including individual productivity, outputs based on performance metrics, and a comparison of how external talent is performing in similar competitors in the market.

When used with our depth of industry expertise and networks, our assessments are highly reliable and are a strong indicator of individual job performance. Our expertise lies in knowing how to best measure candidate output and in interpreting the results within the context of the specific role and organisation.

Our assessment process has built-in measures to detect inconsistent or socially desirable response patterns. More importantly, our combination of internal and external analysis serves to validate the results and provide a range of different datasets to examine.

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