The Sommer Survey Advantage

Finally, an assessment survey that is able to naturally measure and predict what truly drives on-the-job success.

For the last 60 years, executives have lived with assessment methodologies that measure what’s measurable, rather than what they truly want to know. Traits, personalities, probabilities, “types” and concepts create obscure, fuzzy categories of information. Those tools can’t measure and predict the specific ways of how people will do their work. That’s frustrating for executives whose primary goal is to know, in advance, how people will perform in a job.

However, our 40 years of research has changed the measurement game. And, our 30 years of real-life success in Fortune 500 companies has confirmed its value.

The Sommer Survey represents the next generation and new breed of assessment tools. Through a thoroughly researched and battle-tested methodology, it uses the only known method to uncover both the conscious and unconscious components of thinking and decision strategies - deep linguistic analysis. The result is highly relevant, predictable and actionable insight previously not possible. It provides direct linkage to performance prescriptions that leverage performance on-the-job.

We acknowledge that traditional assessment approaches play a familiar role. But those approaches, by their inherent man-made design, find only fragments of the desired decision profile because critical elements and their relationships “slip through the cracks”.

Only The Sommer Survey obtains, in a totally natural manner, the entire and actual thinking decision strategy used on the job in specific, real-time situations. Learn what’s now possible - try the Sommer Survey for FREE on a few candidates or executives - and you will be amazed.

Critical Criteria	The Sommer Predictive Survey	Personality Profiles	360° Feedback Assessments	Cognitive & Critical Thinking Assessments	Behavioral Assessments & Observation
Based On A Validated Science	Yes	Sometimes	Sometimes	Sometimes	Sometimes
Relevant For Assessment & Selection	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Relevant For Coaching, Team Building & Development	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Naturally Identifies What Really Matters vs. Interpreting Man-Made Categories That “Might” Matter	Yes	No	No	No	No
Predicts What Someone “Will Do”, vs. Describing Theoretical Traits & Correlations	Yes	No	No	No	No
Able To Specifically Track How An Employee Shifts Over Time To Different Jobs	Yes	No	No	No	No
Measures Direct Cause-Effect Links Between Decision Strategies & Job Performance	Yes	No	No	No	No
Identifies Relevant Decision Making Mechanisms Via A Predictive Job Simulation	Yes	No	No	No	No
Identifies All Conscious & Unconscious On-The-Job Thinking & Decision Features	Yes	No	No	No	No
Identifies Specific Differences Between Top Performers And Average Or Low Performers	Yes	No	No	No	No
Measures How Changing External Variables (e.g., Corporate Policy, Structure, Training, M&A, etc.) Impact Mindsets	Yes	No	No	No	No
Provides Specific Prescriptive Interventions To Change Behavior And Improve Performance	Yes	No	No	No	No