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Introducing…maestro!

Finding out what people really think about their job and their employer, and what motivates them to stay or leave, is important but not always easy to achieve.

Monday, 26th July 2008

Now, Sirota Survey Intelligence, specialists in attitude research, has introduced Maestro, a new generation of survey reporting and action tools for managers who receive employee survey results for their units.

“Maestro offers simple, action-oriented displays which quickly answer managers’ questions about how they are doing, why their employees stay or leave, what can be done to improve unit performance, and how the unit compares to internal and external benchmarks,” said Nick Starritt, managing director of Sirota Survey Intelligence, Europe.

“Managers are very busy and need business tools that reflect their specific, time-sensitive needs. Many in the organisational development field have focused as much on glitz as on substance in recent years. Maestro refocuses us on the basics essential to improving managerial effectiveness.”

Maestro highlights include a one page ‘dashboard’, a ‘key driver grid’, an ‘item grid’ and an interactive action tracker tool which not only tracks actions at individual, unit and organisational levels, but guides managers through the use of best-practices regarding which type of actions work best based on their results.

The integration of training material allows managers to hone skills necessary to effectively act on the findings.

Starritt added: “Maestro was developed by Sirota staff working closely with our clients over an extended period of time to design something special from the user’s point of view. The result is a best-in-class product suite.”

Click here to visit the Sirota website

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