Got an email saying I'll be taking a skills assessment test; does anyone know anything about this? Are they a precursor to layoffs?
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Managers being asked to stack rank again too.
Did one of these maybe 5 months ago. Not a big deal. You will self assess by answering a series of questions around how well you perform certain tasks that are typical in your LOB. Then your manager will agree with your self assessment or disagree and change the answer based upon their opinion of your performance. But you will never see how your manager responds. Did the self assessment and no one ever spoke of it again. Kinda weird. But then again there is lots of weird stuff happening here these days.
Assessing if you can or can’t do the ñeedful
Can be used in an acquisition scenario - someone wanting to know what staff they are getting to model who they keep and who they layoff.
https://www.mercer.com/insights/people-strategy/mergers-and-acquisitions/priming-the-deal-leadership-and-culture-insights-in-m-and-a/
But it depends on the questions. Risk management did a risk skills assessment a few years ago. Around 30 questions focused on proficient or not proficient for each teammate like "risk identification". Not sure what value it was. And not related to any merger.
My guess is an overpriced consultant selling snake oil to management again with a promised new AI analysis to find "gaps". BUT there are hundreds of job codes and hundreds of departments, and two people with the same job code can have and need different skills. Perhaps a consulting firm claims their AI is programmed for generic bank positions?
Will there be an teammate satisfaction survey this month? Did they really do anything since the last survey, besides another push for purpose statements?
Maybe after this they will realize half the people they have promoted or brought in have no skills.
Prob a McKinsey or BCG thing, which means it won’t help.
Well if its a spelling test then you already failed.
@ab I agree. It also raises questions about the things being ignored or executed in house, which result in what is expressed on this forum. It is due diligence for the new leadership to ask/take stock and lets me know that they don't believe what Truist leadership claims to have.
No disrespect to new teammates, most of the value in doing the MOE has been sold off, destroyed, or moved to other institutions. The merging firm will be taking on many parasites unless they can deworm the org which should have been done in MOE.
@OP I was told that they were to look holistically at the employees and put them together based on skills. To me, that makes no sense. There’s going to be people with similar skills in different departments. I personally think it’s a precursor to layoffs and a merger. They need to know where we’re at to know what’s needed post consolidation. Just my two cents. And no, I’m not saying merger to just say it. Let’s think through everything realistically and honestly. Our new leadership wants to know what they are getting.