For Organizational Leaders

For Organizational Leaders

The Character Assessment Scale – mini (CASm) can be used with your church, or with your Christian business/department or school/class.  The test is totally free, online, and private, returning instant feedback to the email address each test-taker gives (for privacy sake, that can belong to a neighbor, friend, or relative who agrees to return feedback).  The CASm presents 72 test items in a modified True-False format, and can be taken in just 15 minutes.  It also asks ten non-identifying demographic questions about how they are living their lives.  

At no cost of time or money for training or materials, as your group’s leader or leadership team, you can ask or require people in your group or organization to take this test.  You can explain how it is designed for their own inspiration, which will inspire the entire organization.  It can either be taken at church, or on their own time at home.  It should be explained that test results are quite private:  no one can ever see their identity or their test scores unless they forward it or copy it for someone.  Their feedback will only give their 27 test scores, and not how they answered the ten demographic questions.  

Free information given to you:  when they put your email address into the Group Administrator Email questionon their test, you can get a free report emailed to you at the end of your time period for testing, with summary information telling you:

• 27 average scores for your group, to evaluate your team and its progress; 
• Demographic information from summaries of your team’s answers to those questions; and
• A roster of completed tests:  an alphabetized list of every email address that received scores.

Motivations:  If taking the test is optional, you can explain the health benefits of taking the test for both them and their loved ones.  (If a group is judged to need more incentives, perhaps a sponsor of this program can provide compensation.)  Test feedback will encourage test-takers to discuss their test feedback with someone they know and trust, describing several ways they can do so.  

Quality Control:  It helps to give this test at regular intervals, to assess progress for your group over time, and guide institutional change.  If you provide counseling or pastoral care for your members, respondents can be told that when they send or bring their feedback into a counseling session, it will help them understand their problems a lot clearer, and soon see better solutions.  

Marketing, Recruitment, and Efficiency Benefits:  Health-conscious prospective new employees will feel better about choosing your school or business as a place to work, and like your current workforce, they’ll be more productive.  Likewise, health-conscious customers will be attracted to your goods and services, and they will live longer, earn more, and become better market influencers.