Task Quotient™ Assessment with Purpose
Understanding what we “WANT” to do
Part 1
The Task Quotient Assessment delivers a 14-page personalized report that identifies your 1) Ideal, 2) Actual, and 3) Optimal work environments based upon routine, trouble-shooting and project task mixtures. The TQ process provides a prescription the employee and manager to realign employees, with verified improved results in empowerment and engagement in the workplace. This workshop is delivered in 2 parts; Part 1 provides the Task Quotient concepts, understanding and applications. Part 2 provides a structured activity to plot and balance job tasks within a team using an innovative auction process. Every workshop provides a comprehensive look at how our jobs tasks are structured and balanced to meet our intrinsic motivators and make modifications for an improved work environment. The Task Quotient report identifies:
Every Task Quotient workshop (Part 1) provides a comprehensive look at these 12 elements in the individual’s Task Quotient report:
- Understanding the 3 task types – routine, trouble-shooting and project
- Ideal task mixture – preferred work environment identified to maximize empowerment and engagement
- Actual task mixture – current work environment identified defining present level of empowerment and engagement
- Optimal task mixture – future work environment identified to maximize efficiency
- Change needed to move from the actual to an optimal task mixture for efficiency
- Change needed to move from the actual to an ideal task mixture for motivation
- Job satisfaction levels calculated for the actual (current) work environment
- Job satisfaction levels predicted for the optimal (future) work environment
- Identifying task type feedback
- Applying the Task Quotient back on the job
- A Task Quotient Wheel providing a visual representation of alignments and results
- Action Planning document for assessment and strategies for improvement
Part 2
The Task Quotient workshop (Part 2) is designed specifically for intact teams/departments and their direct manager. This portion of the workshop provides an interactive application of all of the Task Quotient concepts through a 9-step process:
- Mapping your weekly work tasks
- Gaining a holistic picture of the full organization’s task distribution
- Analyzing your current task balance
- Defining and plotting the elements for FLOW
- Identifying motivating and demotivating tasks
- Discovering under and over resourced gaps in the organization’s task distribution
- Conducting a task auction to redistribute demotivating (unaligned) tasks and taking on motivating (aligned) tasks
- Creating an action plan for change
- Obtaining buy-in and ownership from management and staff for next steps in the workplace