How to improve personnel assessment with LMS: practical methods
The efficiency of any company depends on how competent its staff is. By making employee development a priority in the company culture, your team will be well-informed about industry trends and best practices, and will have new skills.
Employers who invest in staff development help their employees hone their strengths and develop their skills. This increases the value of their work and directly benefits the business.
In order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each employee, assess skills, confirm their qualifications and measure the effectiveness of their duties, it is necessary to conduct a systematic staff assessment.
What is staff evaluation, how can this process be improved and how the use of LMS helps in this process is described in this article.
Personnel assessment: what it is and why it is needed
Personnel assessment is a system that helps to analyze the characteristics and performance of employees to improve their efficiency.
Assessment objective:
- analyze the main qualities and skills of the personnel;
- determine how the employee corresponds to the position they have;;
- assess the potential of employees and find ways to realize it.
The information obtained as a result of the evaluation helps to rationally distribute the functions and responsibilities of employees, assess the effectiveness of the training and the need for additional training.
Assessment is an incentive to develop their competencies, achieve goals and find new solutions. For employees, it is a great opportunity to objectively analyze the work done and their own effectiveness, compare it with the goals set and identify areas that need to be improved.
When the assessment is mandatory
Assessment is a mandatory procedure when:
- regular recruitment takes place and competent candidates need to be identified
- it is necessary to form a personnel reserve;
- personnel changes are planned: dismissal or promotion;
- corporate training is planned and it is necessary to identify areas for employee development;
- the company’s development has stopped and stagnation has begun;
- the productivity of employees has fallen and it is necessary to determine its causes;
- complaints from customers began to appear;
- conflicts in the team have become more frequent.
How LMS helps to improve personnel assessment
1. Automation of routine work
LMS allows you to automate the process of personnel assessment. With the help of LMS tools, you can automate the assignment of tasks, limit their deadlines and track employee performance. This helps to reduce the workload on HR specialists, line managers and mentors.
LMS Collaborator solution: In LMS Collaborator, personnel assessment can be carried out using various methods: quizzing, certification, feedback collection, supervisor assessment, as well as 360, 180 and 90 degree surveys. All you need is to create a rating scale, set a group of criteria by which employees will be evaluated and assign tasks to employees.
example of 360 degree assessment in LMS Collaborator
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2. Analytics automation
With the help of automated LMS analytics, you can easily monitor the assessment process and conduct analysis: compare the results of all assessment participants, identify the best and worst among them, strong and underdeveloped competencies, as well as highlight areas that need attention and additional training. And based on the results of the data obtained, make important management decisions.
LMS Collaborator solution: LMS Collaborator allows you to work with analytics in the context of different regions and departments, collect statistics of the necessary data and download in the form of Excel tables. Various types of reports are available on the portal: with detailed analytics on training and assessment, on tracking dynamics, on user activity on the portal, etc.
quizzing report in LMS Collaborator
3. Organization of quality training of employees for evaluation
LMS helps to qualitatively prepare employees for the assessment: to assign the necessary training activities to improve knowledge and consolidate what they have learned. Conducting regular training on the basis of LMS keeps the knowledge of employees in good shape, which affects the results of the assessment. Employees who are regularly trained are more likely to pass the assessment and get high results.
LMS Collaborator solution: LMS Collaborator tools make it easy to create various learning activities that help to organize quality training for employees. Use various forms of content presentation and create interesting training courses, programs, video tutorials, informational articles, presentations and more.
4. Creation of personal development plans based on the results of the assessment
After the assessment, do not ignore the results. Be sure to analyze and identify areas for further development. In LMS you can create individual employee development plans. Form a personal set of training activities for a particular employee, which is aimed at improving their competencies, qualifications and professional growth.
LMS Collaborator solution: In LMS Collaborator you can fill personal plans with various training tasks: quizzes, surveys, courses, workshops and other resources. Also add any other individual tasks in the form of a text description. These can be lists of professional books worth reading, videos, podcasts, external trainings, courses, webinars or other types of tasks.
an example of a personal development plan in LMS Collaborator
Checklist for improving the assessment
- Conduct the assessment systematically. This will help to monitor performance on an ongoing basis and make timely decisions to improve it.
- Before launching the annual evaluation, be sure to conduct a test procedure for personnel assessment. This will help to identify possible shortcomings and correct them in time.
- Create an incentive system to motivate employees to undergo the assessment.
- Use comprehensive assessment methods: qualitative, quantitative and combined to collect more data and make the assessment more in-depth.
- Use LMS for employee assessment. It will save you routine and improve business performance.
- Involve department heads and, if possible, external experts in the assessment process. This will make the evaluation more objective.
- After the assessment, be sure to provide feedback – discuss the results personally with the employee. This is necessary in order to formulate an effective action plan to improve results.
- Based on the assessment results, identify areas for employee development.
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