Trusted Advisory Services: Putting a plan into action

Posted by Om Kumble on January 25th, 2017

These days, there are a number of companies that are providing trusted advisory services. Their work is mainly based on the principles of assessment and measurement. One of the various works that they do is trust quotient assessment. This service is ideally suited to the departments of the major corporations. At the same time, it can also be applied to small businesses where around 20 to 30 people may be working at a time. With the help of these services you will be able to identify how strong or weak the people working in your company are, especially with regards to trustworthiness. This way, you are also able to learn how such weaknesses and strengths can have an impact on your business.

Taking it online

These days, the providers of trust quotient assessment are taking it online as well. In fact, it has become the premium mode in that regard. In these tests, individuals are awarded scores on the basis of four trust-related factors that are related to a component known as Trust Equation. All the participants get detailed reports, and the head of the concerned department or the owner of the company in question get these reports as well.  

Benefits of these services

With the help of these services individual members of your team will be able to become more confident and also get the tools that they need in order to build better relationship with their clients. This helps them do more business and do better on the financial front. If you have a team, taking part in these tests would help it understand the true meaning of trust. This also means that they will communicate much more and collaborate a lot better as well. This test will also help you as an owner gain insights, that can be critical, to the performance and profile of your team members.

Identifying opportunities  

By availing these services you would be able to identify the various opportunities to improve the workings of your organization as well as make it more balanced for every possible point of view. There are far more detailed assessments to determine if your employees are trustworthy or not. In case of these services the providers get feedback from the clients, colleagues, and customers of the individuals being scrutinized. This provides a proper and all round view of the persons in question and makes for much better assessment. This way, the levels of trust that can be placed on an employee are discovered and suggestions are made in order to improve the same in case some deficiency is found.

The online nature of things

These tests too have to be taken online and people who provide feedback remain unnamed. This nature of anonymity also helps them provide true opinions and information without the fear of recrimination or any backlash, provided they have stated something uncomplimentary. After this, a proper analysis of the results is done and then group sessions are organized along with team members, who may have been analysed as well.