Motivational Assessment Survey

Every executive intuitively conceptualizes his or her entire job game plan strategy in a heartbeat. Whether for an incumbent or a candidate for a position, the strategic events happening in that heartbeat could fill a book. Knowing the in-depth motivational game plan of an individual offers business leaders an invaluable advantage and helps leverage performance and results.

The Sommer Survey™ of executive job strategies is an on-line questionnaire that allows an executive or professional to express his or her personal, detailed strategy for producing excellent results in their assigned role or proposed new role. The survey includes the executive's concepts, communications, priorities, team orientation, leadership preferences and vision for the assignment - whether a large or small assignment.

Everything in the survey is designed to produce the individual's cognitive map for how that person will create the changes needed to produce a satisfying outcome for the role the person must play in the organization. With this system, company executives can also be profiled so that a candidate's or other employees' survey results can be compared to that of the "ideal" executive or employee. The survey is a leader in the assessment field as a result of its ability to identify an individual's motivations and attitudes, preferences in the job context, and also to predict how this person will behave in handling the job, role, or position under discussion.

Until recently, learning the crucial depth and organization of an individual's game plan for a position has been out of reach. Interviewing and track-record assessments leave many gaps. The person's detailed strategy is seldom made explicit enough to satisfy everyone's comfort level. Assessing the true game plan requires insights into the automatic cognitive process that the individual cannot fully explain. The game plan is hard to define because most of the process is out of conscious awareness. The game plan is deeply-seated in the locations of the brain where sentences, nouns and verbs are manufactured without conscious thought.

The major finding of the last generation is that as people think, they express their deep-seated rationales and strategies in linguistic terms. This exciting field generally goes by the term "psycholinguistics." The Sommer Survey™ represents this leading edge in assessment know-how that is actionable for business. Many of our clients utilize the Sommer Survey™ in the following situations:

  • Pre-Hire - Matching the right applicant to the job requirements
  • Team Building - Comparing successful executives to the thinking of less experienced people or a less experienced team
  • Promotion and Advancement - A way to compare executives to job descriptions for promotions or management development needs
  • Coaching and Training - Pinpointing training and coaching efforts for executives
  • Internal Comparison - Identifying and comparing two executives' common motivational patterns

Executives in Fortune 500 companies portray their own results with these comments:

  • "The survey added horsepower to every program we use from hiring decisions to performance reviews to leadership and team development."
  • "My report was completely non-judgmental and immediately actionable."

This survey is not about traits, or types, or other obsolete measures. The technology of executive assessment has made a quantum leap in the last generation based upon language and information technology - not psychological theory. Whether you are hiring a new employee, pinpointing employee abilities, building effective management teams or developing existing employees; motivational profiling with the Sommer Survey™ is the most accurate, quick, and easy way to give you solid information that directly tell you how a person will do a particular job.

Please contact info@definitivedecidions.com for more information or call (610) 560-1284 or take the survey yourself and let us review your results with you or take a test drive and profile a key member of your team.