Assessments and Audit

A flexible option to schedule effective evaluations (short and longer term) of knowledge and employee insights with auditable data analysis.

Introduction

Cognito’s knowledge retention application is an effective way of assessing capability and addressing knowledge gaps over time. However, organisations may also need a quicker short-term evaluation, or they have a specified timeline event such as meeting an external audit and may want to run a specific assessment over a number of weeks.

Knowledge assessments are a fundamental business tool offering valuable insight into evidencing organisational strengths as well as potential weaknesses. Unfortunately, many organisations find it difficult to deploy assessments, especially over extended periods. Primarily, this is because of the time to implement, monitor and evaluate due to the lack of appropriate tools and automation options.

Cognito’s flexible Assessment solution

To outline the opportunities we will first review the practical and effective features of the solution. We then summarise the main benefits of our SMART approach (Schedule, Measure, Automate, Report, Track) as a standalone solution or integrated into Cognito’s Knowledge Retention application.

Simple, flexible options Key elements of our assessment solution

Allows different assessment types to cater for your needs including formative, summative and evaluative activities.
Simple spreadsheet template to rapidly create the questions and workflow.
Allow the automation features to schedule the knowledge assessment over the designated period i.e. days, weeks or months.
In addition to knowledge assessments – the application allows you to survey personal opinions i.e. confidence, wellbeing etc.
An ‘auto-escalation’ feature – allows a proactive ‘push-notification’ to be sent based upon particular answers i.e. an extremely low satisfaction or confidence score.
The Intelligence dashboard provides on-going results and allows for analysis by company, team or individual.
Perfect for Knowledge audits where a point in time evaluation is required as evidence.
Cognito offers a content curation service for organisations that would like the questions to be created as part of the activity.

Evidence, Informing decisions Business outcomes and benefits

Cost effective and Simple to implement.
Low-touch management and ease of maintenance.
Flexibility to change with your business needs.
Scalable solution i.e. multiple assessments can be operational at one time.
Early warning ‘auto-escalation’ helps manage business risks.
Integrates perfectly with Cognito’s Knowledge retention solution as either a pre, post or on-going activity.
Intelligence dashboard provides evidence-based reporting.
Drives Informed decision making i.e. promoting learning interventions to rectify challenges.