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Surveys and
Assessments

Surveys and assessments allow you to gain a better understanding of your market, customers, prospects and employees. They also make it possible for you to gather valuable input and feedback to develop your business and to help you make decisions quickly and effectively.

Surveys

Both the surveys and reports are custom designed for you and results can be filtered for cross-tabulation and trend analysis purposes. Benchmark survey results for year to year comparisons.

Strategic Planning Survey

Allows you to cut down the cost of meetings, note taking, transcribing and organizing information by gathering input prior to your strategic planning activities; making the process more efficient and cost-effective.

Employee Satisfaction Survey

Helps you measure and understand your employees’ attitude, opinions, motivation, and satisfaction. Since employees are often your direct link to your customers, their satisfaction can be directly correlated to your customers’ satisfaction.

New Hire Survey

Measures the effectiveness of your orientation and onboarding programs. Results allow you to assess what is required to get new hires up to speed quickly, address training gaps, increase satisfaction, and enhance future programs.

Customer Satisfaction Survey

Can be conducted with your internal or externals customers to:

  • Measure customer satisfaction;
  • Show customers you care about their needs and suggestions;
  • Develop customer loyalty;
  • Determine product/service enhancement needs prior to designing and launching;
  • Get reactions to new products/services;
  • Understand what influence product/service performance; and
  • Find out what your customers think of your competition.
Strategic Planning Survey
PREVUE ASSESSMENT™
Assessments

Assessments

Fairwinds offers a variety of assessment tools for recruiting, team, succession, leadership or career choice/transition purposes. Assessments provide employers with tools to evaluate job-related information regarding potential employees, and assist with coaching and leadership of current employees. All assessments are available online, for individuals or groups, in French and English.

Prevue Assessment™

Sample Report

The benefits of the Prevue Assessment™ are to ensure that organizations get the right people in the right job fit the first time and objectively focus on key development needs to enhance your employee’s ongoing development. There are five different Prevue reports that can be generated to enhance selection decisions, coaching and development planning and succession planning. 

Extended DISC®

Sample Report

This assessment is designed to provide decision-makers with information about individuals; their behavioral style, strengths, development areas, skills, opinions, perceptions and expectations.

Extended DISC® provides you with information to enhance the performance of your employees and helps you avoid expensive mistakes and costly problems. The profiles generated by the online assessments provide you with the information you need for:

 

  • Leadership Development
  • Organizational Development
  • Management Training
  • Team Development
  • Coaching
  • Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Communication and Interpersonal
  • Skills Training

The Denison Organizational Culture Survey

Measures organizational culture on four major characteristics: Mission, Consistency, Adaptability and Involvement, and it measures employee perceptions on 60 items that yield scores on 12 cultural attributes. The Denison Organizational Culture Survey produces a powerful, visual summary of strengths and weaknesses in organizational culture, and it provides detailed feedback on specific aspects of the organization’s culture and how it is viewed overall and by subgroups.

Other Assessments

  • Customer Service Aptitude
  • Team Assessments
  • Leadership 360s
  • Sales recruiting
  • Career Choice and Transition

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Eric Efford, President and CEO
Alpha Chemical

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Andrew J. Enns, President
NRG Research Group

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Heather Hines - Human Resources Manager
Tirecraft (Atlantic Canada)

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Trevor Bent, Human Resource & Risk Manager
Eassons Transport Limited

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Renette Muise, Workplace Education Coordinator
Nova Scotia Department of Labour and Advanced Education

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Chuck Bezanson, Divisional Chief Training
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency

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Pam Murray and Peter Andresen
Invisible Fence Brand of Annapolis Valley

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Peter MacInnes, Quality and Training Supervisor
Minas Basin Pulp and Power

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Alice MacDonald, HR Manager
Larsen-Maple Leaf

"At HBM we have had successful partnerships with Fairwinds on HR, Corporate Strategy and Sales initiatives over the last 15 years."

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Bonnie Boyd Reid
United Way Halifax

"Rick has helped me understand and excel in sales and service."

Paul MacKinnon, Sales Representative
Bluewave Energy

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Janet Sutherland Tam, Human Resources Manager
Peter Kohler - Windows and Entrance Systems

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"I have relied on Sylvie for almost 10 years for my translation requirements and never once have I experienced a problem or missed a deadline."

Andrew J. Enns, President
NRG Research Group

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Gordon Stewart, Executive Director
Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia

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Linwood Hupman, Executive Director
NB Merit Contractors Association

Our Clients

Halifax Chamber of Commerce
United Way Halifax
Port Authority
Scotian Gold Co-operative Limited
Casino Nova Scotia
Heritage Gas
Norex
Medavie EMS
Sport Nova Scotia
NSCC Kingstec
Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
Domaine de Grand Pré
Tii Network Technologies
Green Imaging Technology
Atlantic Lottery Corporation
Invisible Fence
Durty Nellys
Saint Mary's University
centre for women in business
Bluewave Energy
JW Lindsay
minas basin
HBM
Eassons
Recreation Nova Scotia
Peter
Construction Association of Nova Scotia
Jetco Contracting
Property Valuation Services Corporation
Premiere Entertainment Group
Infinity Employment Solutions
Sport Centre Atlantic
Merit New Brunswick
Alpha Chemical
CEED
ACOA
Russell House Marketing
Graybar Canada
Royal K9
Miller Tirecraft
EMC Canada

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