Success in business is a systematic process that requires the right people in the right jobs. We believe that there are five STEPS you must take to get the right people on the bus and then engage them properly to increase their chances of success: Select, Train, Engage, Perform, and Sustain.

Accord has helped hundreds of companies improve their performance in every area of operations. It starts by selecting the right people, which doesn't happen by accident. We provide the right tools to select the best people for the job, and then train you to use those tools. We then help you keep those people engaged, so they perform properly and sustain their efforts over the long haul of business operations.

It all starts with who you select as employees, and how you go about promoting them and finding the right fit for them in your business. Accord is one of the leading providers of employee assessment tools, including job analysis surveys, employee personality profiling, pre-employment assessment and other related surveys. For more details on the importance of proper employee assessment, click here to read about the basics of employee assessment.

Training is one of the critical processes that is often overlooked in employee assessment. One of the places where the process often breaks down is in interpreting the survey results. Accord provides detailed training to help you interpret our employee assessment surveys properly. Our service also includes unlimited consulting, so that our training is on-going. We're with you all the way in your search to get the right people on the bus.

According to numerous studies, engaging your employees has become the most important way to increase productivity and profitability in today's increasingly competitive world. Employee engagement surveys are the primary technique for systematically increasing engagement. Accord is becoming one of the leaders in engagement studies, and has identified a critical correlation between personality type and revenue generation. For more information, click here to read our White Paper entitled Engagement Strategies.

Many companies who do engagement studies still do not engage their employees because they don't implement the findings. This is one of the major mistakes companies make in the engagement process. They may listen to their employees, but they don't act! Accord works closely with you to help you design and develop implementation strategies to make certain that you not only talk the talk, but also walk the walk. To see it in action, click here to download our franchisor case study, and call us if you want us to do the same thing for you.

After you've implemented the first four steps, you're just at the beginning of the process. You have to do it again and again and again in order to sustain your success. As such, there are other tools that can help you continue to improve performance by increasing employee productivity. One important tool is using 360º Assessments, which measure how well your employees are interacting with the people around them. To understand how 360º Assessments can help your business, click here to read our White Paper on 360º Assessments.