Every organisation is in the People Business
Choose and Develop Effective People
Grow Self-Aware Leaders
Build an Enterprise that Delivers
You know that if a machine isn’t working or a piece of kit fails, you fix it or replace it. If it is particularly important or expensive, you have it insured.
But your people are far more complicated, are with you potentially for longer - and have by far the biggest impact on your organisational performance and profitability.
The big challenge is that unlike your 5-axis lathe or your expresso maker, no one has written a model-specific manual for each of your people. They are all different, and what works with one, doesn’t seem to work with another. Many business owners and leaders just put ‘people’ in the ‘too-hard’ basket. But that is the wrong answer.
‘People' is a Practical Problem
At Kokkoi, we have a team who have been helping organisations make sense of their people for decades. Over the years we have worked with household names, like Visa, Coca-Cola and Microsoft; banks, universities, 3 of the ‘Big 4’ consultancies, startups, social enterprises and charities.
None of them ever came to us because they wanted their people to be entertained with some irrelevant ‘touchy-feely’ fluff. They keep coming back because they know we can help them identify what is really going on with teams that aren’t performing, change initiatives that are spinning their wheels, and leaders who are leaving a big choppy wake behind them.
And they know we get results by helping people and teams understand themselves better and change their behaviour for the better.
Birkman Professional Services for your Organisation:
We are globally recognised leaders in the use of the Birkman Method® (TBM) in a wide range of organisations. We help our clients to:
Choose and Develop Effective People
A full range of services supporting selection (internal as well as external), coaching and development for employees
Grow Self-Aware Leaders
Our leadership development services range from workshops and coaching with leaders and their teams, programmes for senior leadership teams and developmental retreats for leaders to learn together with their peers from other organisations
Build an Enterprise that Delivers
Lasting organisational change requires the ability to deliver appropriate analysis, training and support at every level of the organisation; Birkman Enterprise enables us to do this in the most time- and cost-effective manner.
The Birkman Method at Work
The Birkman Method Questionnaire is completed by individuals online, and takes 30-35 minutes on average. The output data (around 300 data points in total) is available in a wide range of narrative report, spreadsheet and visualised formats.
The latter are powerful when analysing organisational and performance issues, but for bringing about individual and group change, the narrative report formats, including Birkman Signature and Birkman Mindset are without peer. Both of these require the involvement of a Birkman Certified Consultant, of whom Kokkoi has a significant number both in-house and within our distribution network.
Alternatively, organisations are free to build their own in-house capacity and capability, by means of our Birkman Certification Services
See below for examples of some of the report formats available to you through Kokkoi.
FAQs
What is different about the Birkman Method (TBM)?
Unlike every other psychometric assessment on the market, Birkman does not rely on self-reported behaviour, alone. Most assessments measure what people say about themselves, and then apply some kind of correction for the impact of social desirability.
The genius of Dr Roger Birkman, was that he found a way of also measuring what people thought was normal for the world in general, and of using both those pieces of data to predict, accurately, how people would react when the ‘world’ wasn’t living up to that expectation. This further allowed him to leave self-reported data without correction, meaning that he could look at how far individuals aligned with social desirability as measured in the population as a whole - and how individuals aligned or otherwise with their own sense of what is normal, and with their own behaviour when stressed.
That is six data points instead of one, for each construct we measure. This makes the Birkman Signature Report such a powerful tool for understanding individual and group behaviour. It also allows for meta analysis of an individual’s responses, which is what powers the Mindset Report.
And that is before we get started on Birkman’s Motivational Data and Task, Role and Career matching data derived from statistical analysis!
Why does Kokkoi use Birkman?
Some of our team have been using nothing but TBM for the past 25 years, and it not for lack of choice; we have qualifications in a number of other tools. It is just that nothing else comes close to the level of personal insight available through TBM.
We are not into sorting people into ‘buckets’ - ‘you’re “one of these” or “one of those”’. What floats our boat is the genuine and sustainable change that comes about when people finally start to understand themselves, exactly as they are. That is always unique in the details, even if they have broad similarities with some others in their organisational setting.
But ultimately, our clients expect us to help deliver change in their teams and organisations; and we wouldn’t trust any other tool to inform that task.
Can I take a DIY approach to using the Birkman Method?
Yes - and no! Kokkoi’s Snapshot+ Report can be used in self-service mode, or with a qualified facilitator. Birkman Signature® requires a Birkman Certified Professional (BCP) to deliver it; and Birkman Mindset® requires a BCP who has undertaken additional Mindset Training.
Where can I find a BCP to help me?
That is all part of Kokkoi’s service - we have a network of BCPs available to help you across Aotearoa NZ and Australia. Get in touch to find out more.
Who can become a BCP?
Quite possibly you can! Go to our Birkman Certification Page for more details.
