Preferred Personnel has the only Birkman certified consultant in the Permian Basin. For over 50 years, corporate human resource professionals, independent consultants, executive coaches, educational institutions and other not-for-profit organizations have used The Birkman Method® with over 2.5 million individuals. The Birkman Method® personality test accurately measures productive behaviors, stress behaviors, underlying needs, motivations and organizational orientation. The Birkman Method® can help you maximize human potential and achieve results that are both superior and sustainable.
In this time of economic uncertainty, your organization and your employees are suffering in ways you can see – and in some ways you can’t. In these times, employees’ anxiety can undermine performance and limit productivity. Executives, managers and teams may experience a lack of trust and react tot this environment with quiet resistance, passive-aggressive behaviors and low-energy levels.
However, there are things you can control. You can provide employees and teams with the tools they need to overcome their limitations and move forward productively while making a positive impact on your company’s performance.
The Birkman Method® is a multi-dimensional assessment integration behavioral, motivational, and occupational data. This business-focused assessment is developed from scientific methodology to enhance and predict interpersonal and occupational success. You don’t have to be an expert on all the intricacies of human behavior, but you can use the most comprehensive assessment available giving you the edge to improve your people skills and the skills of those with whom you work.
The Birkman Method® is not industry-specific. Rather, it is specific to people. It is used by every type of industry where employment decisions, career decisions, advancement decisions, and the development of human resources is important. Information gained from using The Birkman Method® is applicable across industries – from manufacturing to services.
Unlike other assessments that provide only descriptive information, The Birkman Method provides both descriptive and prescriptive feedback. It is the prescriptive data that makes Birkman so unique. The definition of an individual’s underlying needs, available through Birkman’s unique construction and comparative database, provide powerful insight into what specifically drives a person’s behavior, and thus gives people greater choice while allowing these participants to assume a much higher level of responsibility for their own behavior through increased in-depth self-understanding and a relative comparison with others. Without this information, people assume their needs and feelings are “normal”, though seldom quantified, and few people are able to “figure out” how to get their needs met or satisfied. This prescriptive capability is one of Birkman’s most powerful contributions.
Birkman provides a common language to define individual differences which is non-judgmental and non-categorical. This language “neutralizes” the assumptions and judgments that most people conclude about others, and opens realistic and lasting opportunities for reliable communication, trust and collaboration.
Birkman is more than an individual tool or event. Beyond Birkman’s powerful language and measurement, Birkman provides a sophisticated information management system and over 40 report formats for individuals, groups, teams, and large organizational systems as well. The information can be configured to address a broad spectrum of individual, team and organizational development applications. Further, the extensive information management system of the Birkman data offers important analytical capabilities for organizational and cultural assessment, organizational needs analysis, database sorting, searching and strategically using the data to manage an organization’s human capital.