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Readiness Assessments

Save time • guesswork • costly mistakes • headaches • confusion

  • Have a great talent initiative—but unsure whether it’s award-ready?

  • Deb’s proprietary worksheets and processes can get you on the right path to the right award at the right time.

Our Award-Readiness Assessment* is designed to evaluate your initiative’s chance of winning, guide your decision-making, and help avoid false starts. Deb provides tools and a simple process to surface key information and create a snapshot of your initiative, its genesis, and impact to date.

  • Preparation: You send Deb completed worksheets and background materials for analysis.

  • Consultation: Together you discuss Deb’s analysis and probe further details during a 90-minute consultation.

  • Decision: If your program is deemed “award-ready,”* the assessment can serve as the discovery phase of an application support engagement. If not, Deb will suggest steps to advance toward readiness (often around measurable outcomes). Either way, Deb will recommend relevant awards and category/ies for whenever the time is right.

* “Award-readiness” does not guarantee a win but means you’ve got the right stuff.

Analysis is based on Deb’s 4 Fundamentals of a Winning Program™ (what all winners have in common), 4 Realms of Impact™ (how effective talent initiatives can benefit four distinct groups), and her experience supporting 200+ award wins.

The benefits of investing in a readiness assessment include:

  • Gaining an outside, expert perspective on your initiative, its impact, and ability to impress judges

  • Pinpointing what sets your work apart while uncovering opportunities to enhance results capture

  • Potentially saving the time and effort of an award endeavor that could yield disappointment

  • Identifying gaps and ideas to prepare for the next recognition opportunity

And, talent leaders who utilize Deb’s Award-Readiness Assessment often observe that it can also be used as a planning tool to guide program design with a winning mindset.

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