Assessment Overview

Overview
The SMART assessment from New Horizons of St Louis is a tool and a process to define, assess, and inventory skill sets from within an IT Department all the way to an organizational level. The results of the SMART assessment determine your learning plan and provide justification to move your organization from its present state to the desired future state, provide career identification and planning intitiatives, and develop an inventory of your peoples skills.

SMART is a browser-based application that uses predefined technical skills dictionaries that align to organizational roles. Each skill is mapped to related Curriculum course modules including instructor led, CBT/eLearning, and books . User assessments performed against these skills provide your organization with an analysis on skill gaps and specific education requirements. This in turn provides a tool for assessing your organization’s requirements that can then be mapped to specific training solutions in helping you to move more effectively within new technology platforms.

This process benefits your organization in many ways. It will give you a good basis if you are planning new technology rollouts because your skills gaps will be identified and your employees can be better educated. It also allows you to more fully utilize your present technologies by providing a higher realization of the skills required for those technologies. And it provides you with a role-based training program that focuses on driving software deployments through a project-based model.
At the end of this process, you will have the following:

• Organizational and individual gap analysis
• Organizational and individual education learning plans
• Executive summary and assessment results
• An inventory of your peoples skills 

Organization Assessment Process