With the economies of the world in flux, and new business challenges emerging every day, we're now entering uncertain economic times. In times like these, it's more crucial than ever that you make the right decisions, and the Discus profiler has a part to play in helping to give you the critical information you need.

Challenge: Recruiting the Right People

• Mistakes in recruitment carry a whole range of costs
• Putting the right people in the right roles strengthens your business
• The Discus profiler is a key part of a successful recruitment process

A misstep in recruitment can carry a whole range of costs, both direct and indirect (for a detailed look at the costs involved, see our article The Criminal Cost of Mishiring). Even more important than avoiding mishiring, finding the right person for the right role is a vital step towards strengthening your business.

Coming up with the right recruitment decision is a complex and multi-faceted process, but understanding a candidate's personality is a key feature of that process. Axiom's Discus profiler gives you a structured way of assessing individual personal styles. Not only that, but it can compare those styles against the details of any role, and with members of an existing team, to help make sure you find the best possible fit in any recruitment situation.

Challenge: Optimising and Redeploying

• Uncertain times call for a business rationalisation
• Matching roles to individual skillsets becomes critically important
• The Discus profiler helps to manage this change

As the economic climate becomes more demanding, the need for a business to run at optimal efficiency becomes more and more important. Often, a wholesale re-evaluation of an organisation's structure is called for, to ensure that resources are deployed in the most effective way possible.

Every member of an organisation has their own unique set of skills and abilities, and its often the case that these skills can be re-applied in different areas to the advantage of the business as a whole. Recognising possibilities like these takes an inventive and creative approach, but Discus can help to identify the potential in members of an existing team, and help to make suggestions about their ideal roles in an organisation's structure.

Challenge: Restructuring Your Business

• Difficult times require difficult decisions
• Redundancy selection is as important as recruitment
• The Discus profiler can help to ease the process of restructuring

When the times call for a re-examination of the workings of a business, sometimes this can call for difficult decisions. At times, the only realistic solution calls for the redundancy of some members of the team.

Decisions in this area are exactly as important as those in recruitment. As costly as it can be to hire the wrong person for a role, letting the wrong person go can have serious consequences of its own. Losing a member of the team has an impact not only on that person themselves, but on the workings of the entire team that they leave.

Discus includes a suite of team management tools that help you to assess the effects of situations like this, and discover how redundancy will affect the overall workings of your organisation. What's more, the understanding of a personality that it provides can help you to manage the situation in a mutually positive way. What's more, you can help to ease matters by providing a leaving employee with a copy of their own Discus report, helping to give them advice and insights into their future career path.

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Find out what Discus can do for you right now: visit the Discus page of this site for more information. There you'll find all the details you need, and you can download Discus directly to see it in action for yourself.