Talent Management & Leadership Development

Case Studies

We have compiled a wealth of resources based on our extensive expertise in the workplace field. We encourage you to explore some of the materials below—and please contact us if you need additional information or have questions.

Featured: Case Study Book

An in-depth look at how 14 different organizations utilized Profiles’ employee assessments and help from their Strategic Business Partner to solve important challenges related to selection, development, and engagement of their workforce and leaders.

The Job Fit Journal

Smart organizations succeed when they realize that strong performance and results come from their people.

Leadership Charisma

Many business leaders struggle to lead and motivate their staff to achieve the results demanded by their shareholders. By becoming more charismatic leaders, your audience can dramatically increase engagement, productivity, profitability, and even the success of their careers.

Why Smart Employees Underperform

We’ve all been there. After an extensive and thorough search for a line manager, one candidate stands out. You hired the qualified individual, only to find there’s a disconnect with the new employee. This report discusses ways to prevent underperformance.

Top 4 Strategies for Motivating and Retaining Employees

Having the right people with the right skills in the right jobs can result in a significant competitive advantage.

The Powerful Act of Coaching Employees

Coaching not only changes the culture of an organization, but it increases performance and leads to a significant return on investment. This briefing helps business leaders better understand the importance and value of continuous coaching.

Six Keys to Unlocking the Potential of Frontline Managers

Times of change present many challenges for organizations, particularly for frontline managers. This fact inspired us to identify six keys to unlocking the potential of frontline managers.

Managing Difficult Employees, Problems and Solutions

In this report we identify four main problems managers experience with difficult employees..

Leaders Guide to Managing Workplace Stress

This briefing is designed to help executives understand, recognize, and effectively deal with stress in the workplace.

Leaders Guide to Managing Workplace Fraud, Theft, and Violence

A less commonly recognized reason of business failure is the costly challenge of managing fraud, theft, and workplace violence.

Fostering a Culture of Engagement

This report helps you begin the process of learning about employee engagement in your organization. We will describe three levels of engagement: organizational, managerial, and employee, and give you some practical ideas to improve engagement in your organization.

How to Avoid the Seven Biggest Teambuilding Blunders

An effective team can accomplish more as a whole than its individual members can accomplish on their own. Read on to learn how to build that effective team!

Executives Guide to Strategic Workforce Planning

Strategic workforce planning is a process that ensures your business has the right people in the right jobs at the right time to achieve your expected results. This report explores six steps of strategic workforce planning and offers some advice for achieving results.

Executive Guide to Employee Assessments

Personnel costs are among the largest budget line items. Employee assessments can give organizations and managers consistent, in-depth, and objective information about their people. Read on to learn more!

Creating a Team Building Culture

In order to create a team-building culture you must assess the individual employee, assess the leader, assess the team and create a culture that values engagement.

Coaching to Develop Employee Performance

This Executive Briefing suggests ways to coach early and often in order to prevent potential problems before they happen.

8 Signs of Incompetent Managers

Over the years we have identified eight signs of incompetent managers. Read on to learn what those traits are.

6 Crucial Behaviors for Customer Facing Employees

Profiles International found that assessing core personality traits combined with a standardized set of skill measures provides clear indicators of probable success in a customer-facing role.

5 Critical Management Derailers

Why do front-line managers fail, and what can be done to avoid failure? This report elaborates on five critical issues and offers common-sense advice for helping your managers avoid them.

Five Lessons for Upgrading Talent with Outside Superstars

This report provides five key lessons to help optimize the upgrading process. It drills deeper into each lesson to guide you through the talent upgrade process and help you avoid common mistakes.

4 Essential Tactics for Optimizing Organizational Talent

The state of the economy is unfortunate, but now more than ever you have the opportunity to optimize your organizational talent.