Assessing your workforce, departments, programmatic areas, or entire organization is vitally important for effective organization development. Assessments can vary drastically in length (duration) and complexity. The assessment process may also be known by other names or similar practices such as evaluation, appraisal, or feedback.
Good assessment and evaluation practices involve in-depth discovery and state-of-the-art methodologies. Outputs from any assessment or evaluation practice may be substantially different, the key to this process is aligning the proper solution with your needs.