Origin of WorkIQ
WorkIQ is based on the research, identifying key factors separating star performers from average performers in world leading organizations. WorkIQ has been found to be highly predictive of staff performance in competitive environments.
WorkIQ is completely different from conventional IQ and personality profiling. While conventional IQ measures peoples thinking speed or efficiency in a specific area of work, WorkIQ measure people’s ability to access and utilize such speed and efficiency to overcome real life challenges in the work place given uncertainties, and relationship complexities existing in competitive environments.
Also, while personality profiles give clue about which type of job a person’s talents are better fit for, WorkIQ explains why two people with similar personality codes produces significantly different work performance under similar work conditions. WorkIQ is not a substitute for technical competence; it is a key multiplying factor to talents and technical competence. That is, a person with a very high technical competence can still be an average or poor performer if his WORKIQ is low.
However, a person with a very high WorkIQ is not automatically competent in a technical profession, but will be a better performer if skilled in the specific technical profession.
WorkIQ is not a static variable. It is a reflection of dominant subconscious programming developed by a person over time through social and environmental scripting. This subconscious programming provides a default decision-making basis utilized by people when faced with real-life challenges in the work environment. Cumulative decisions and choices made regularly by a person in the work environment ultimately determine his measurable results or performance over a given period of time.
WorkIQ can be changed or significantly improved if a person is exposed to relevant training and mind transformation therapy.
WorkIQ test is a tool developed to measure the level of candidates’ subconscious awareness of the 5 key variables observed among star performers in world-leading organizations. The 5 dimensions include: Initiative, Knowledge Network, Self Management, Big Picture Perspective, and Followership Skills. The star performers’ definitions of the above variables are completely different from the dictionary or average performers’ definitions of similar variables. The WorkIQ definitions are as follows:
Blazing the trail in the organization’s white spaces. Going above and beyond the accepted job description or busting out of every day job routine to offer new, bold, and value-adding ideas. They do this mainly for the benefits of coworkers or entire organization. They also follow through diligently to ensure implementation of those ideas. They often have to take some risk and persistently persuade stakeholders.
Knowing who knows by plugging into the knowledge network. Proactively developing dependable pathways to knowledge experts who can help them complete critical path tasks. When called upon, they share their knowledge with those who need it. They personally seek out and invest in information or knowledge that is relevant to the achievement of results on their work.
A complex series of skills that help them to proactively create opportunities, direct their work choices, ensure high job performance, and carve out their career path. It allows them to develop a portfolio of talents and work experiences such that their value to the company increases consistently.
A multi-dimensional skill that allows them to see a project or problem in a larger context and through the eyes of critical others: customers, competitors, co-workers, and bosses. Having a broad perspective enables them to evaluate the relative importance of various view points so that they can improve or develop better solutions to problems.
A work strategy that involves being actively engaged in helping the organization succeed while exercising the independent, critical judgment of goals, tasks, and methods. They have the ability to work cooperatively with a leader to accomplish organizational goals even when there are personality or workplace differences
WorkIQ is the most accurate quantitative measure of a person’s work attitude that is statistically normalized for the African knowledge worker.
It is a statistically validated psychometric software that has been successfully administered to over 10,000 knowledge workers in the last 15 years.
The WorkIQ psychometric Test is a very valuable asset for staff recruitment because of its high ability to predict staff post-employment performance.
According to 80% of the companies using WorkIQ psychometric software, the correlation between a staff WorkIQ score and their post-employment performance is about 90%.
