Supporting Materials
Human Synergistics/Acumen offers materials designed to enhance and enrich the assessment experience for leaders, teams, and facilitators using our assessment tools.
The basic materials needed to conduct a leader or team development project include a self or feedback report and its corresponding workbook. Each participant receives a workbook along with his/her report. We also recommend our Facilitator Guides for use by learning and development personnel, trainers, and consultants who use our products within their programs.
Workbooks
Acumen Workbooks are designed to assist the participant in making good use of the information presented within his/her self or feedback report. The workbook may be used in training workshops, as part of a team exercise, or in an individual, self-paced development effort.
The workbooks are organized into four major sections: Pre-Work, Understanding Your Assessment Results, Writing Your Action Plan, and Follow-Up Activities.
The benefits of the workbook include:
Understanding how the assessment instrument works and what the outcome means by providing a guided review of the self or feedback report
Guiding the participant in making informed choices about which changes to make to increase the effectiveness of the report content
Implementing the new information via specific action planning
Facilitator Guide
Acumen Facilitator Guides contain valuable collections of support materials, which combine to make your use of the Acumen assessment products a productive and rewarding experience. Included in the guides are:
- Tips for preparing assessment feedback workshops
- A complete script for facilitating the one-day Feedback Workshop
- Masters for overheads used in the workshop
- A bibliography of the books referenced by the suggested development activities for participants
- A guide to the logistic and administrative processes involved in taking the assessments and arranging for a feedback workshop
- Papers on research and validation methods
- Answers to commonly asked questions about the assessment instruments
Related Materials
Project Timeline Guidelines
Acumen WorkStyles™ Method and Validity Report 
Acumen Leadership Skills Method and Validity Report
Acumen Team Skills Method and Validity Report
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