During an assessment, the person doing the assessing is asked to evaluate someone's current performance and the expected impact of improvement if that person were given the proper development opportunities and applied themselves.

Based on these two primary factors, the system calculates a person's potential. The calculation looks like this:

Potential = Impact + (Impact - Performance)

The different performance and impact options are assigned the following values in the calculation:

• Performance
  • Poor: 0
  • Moderate: 1
  • Well: 2
  • Outstanding: 3
• Impact
  • None: 0
  • Limited: 1
  • Moderate: 2
  • High: 3

Here's are a couple of calculation examples:

Someone's is considered to be performing Well (2) in a role, with a Limited (1) improvement impact. Their potential is calculated as 1 + (1 - 2) = 0.

Another person is considered to be Moderate (1) in a particular skillset, with a High (3) improvement impact. Their potential is calculates as 3 + (3 - 1) = 5.

To assign meaning to the outout of the calculation, they resulting scores are grouped into the following labels:

• -3 - 1: No potential
• 0 - 2: Limited potential
• 3 - 4: Moderate potential
• 5 - 6: High potential