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- April 18, 2005 - Assessment Leaders announces a licensing agreement
with Emerge International to market their flagship product the
Cultural
Health Indicator™ [CHI], a top-rated, customized,
Internet based tool to assess and diagnose a company's culture.
The CHI provides organizations with a clear picture of those cultural
elements that are either supporting or hampering their ability
to achieve strategic business goals.
Emerge International,
headquartered in Arizona, developed the tool in 1998 by two partners
with executive HR and OD backgrounds who saw a need for a systemic
approach to integrating human systems and business systems. The
CHI is a user-friendly, systematic process that can be administered
via the Internet or by paper and pencil and takes approximately
25 minutes to complete. Employees respond to approximately 89
statements in areas such as leadership, relationships, communications,
infrastructure, decision making, innovation, and financial health
and 3 open-ended questions. Companies may customize the survey
to include additional quantitative and qualitative questions,
in multiple languages. Many companies have implemented the CHI
with great success. A few well-known ones are American Express,
CR Bard, Mayo Clinic, NCCI, Solae and Yahoo!.
"We are
excited to represent Emerge, as we continue to expand out product
line by providing our current and future clients with the very
best tools available in the marketplace to help them improve their
human capital and business performance. The CHI accurately addresses
key organizational issues and produces data to assist companies
in developing a positive culture that will act as the life force
for the organization carrying nourishment, support and energy
to ensure execution of strategic goals," says Cathy Caserza-Light,
Founder and President of Assessment Leaders.
Lizz and PJ
are very optimistic about the new relationship that is being formed
with Assessment Leaders and, "We look forward to partnering
with an organization that shares the same belief system and approach
to servicing clients as we do," says PJ Bouchard, President
of Emerge International.
"Top
research houses have found that the best indicator of overall
excellence is a healthy organizational culture that attracts,
cultivates and retains high-valued talent. The factor for losing
high-value talent is customarily 2 or 3 times salary, and the
impact often far-reaching and long-term as this knowledge transfer
ultimately will reside with a competitor. With the talent pool
diminishing in the next decade, companies need to face reality
that we are in a top talent acquisition mode and the ones that
understand what is truly going on in their organizations and do
something positive with the data, will have a high probability
of keeping that top tier of talent", stated Emerge CEO, Lizz
Pellet.
About
Assessment Leaders
Founded in 2003, Assessment Leaders, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Business Builders LLC, provides leading web-based human capital
solutions, management and leadership training and development
materials, organizational development and executive management
services. Assessment Leaders is a licensed partner of Profiles
International and Inscape Publishing.
Cultural Health
Indicator™ [CHI] and Cultural Due Diligence are registered
trademarks of Emerge International.
Visit
our website at www.assessmentleaders.com
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