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NOT a personality, IQ or psychometric assessment
Opusuna is an entirely qualitative tool, drawing heavily from physics and dynamic systems theory of how humans interact and operate.
It's not a mishmash of previous assessments or batteries, nor does it even remotely resemble the Myers-Brigs, DISC, Predictive Index, or another test that may be familiar to you.
Opusuna was developed from the ground up to be all it is own. Opusuna focuses directly and holistically on teamwork and interactive behavior.
Trusted By:
Opus = Work
Una = Together
Opusuna has the answer.
What happens when people 'work' 'together'
Twenty-five years of research and testing by behavioral scientists resulted in Opusuna's transformative team-building strategy and integrated talent assessment.
Award-winning Opusuna is not the "status quo," it's unlike personality, IQ, and EQ tests; Opusuna is a forward-thinking and data-driven team-based strategy and assessment.
Opusuna Measures:
- How people behave under stress
- How people collaborate to achieve common goals
- How people add value to their teams and organization and through what means
Opusuna Tells You:
How to best utilize talent in a team
How people handle stress
How people collaborate and connect to achieve common goals
How people add value to their teams
Your Secret Weapon to Hire Your Next High Performer – Or Activate the One You Didn’t Know You Had
In under an hour Opusuna helps you evaluate applicants in a deeper more predictive way.
Research shows that the most important indicators across all types of industries are an employee’s ability to collaborate on a team and work toward common objectives. After giving an applicant or employee the Opusuna assessment, you’ll know with unrivaled accuracy how well they’ll gel, acclimate, and contribute to driving business goals to completion.
- Build stronger, higher-performing teams
- Streamline your hiring
- Get a high-quality short list of candidates faster
- Help employees find responsibilities and work in they’ll excel at
- Avoid wasting money on training people who never improve
- Reduce risk of bad hires or reorganizing teams
- Standardize your hiring process
- Reduce stress
The Heart of
Opusuna's Integrated
Team Building Strategy
Opusuna's 10 Modes of Service (Roles)
All High-performance teams have people that fulfill Roles. Roles are aligned to the needs of the teams mission.
People instinctively fill 1 or more the these Roles or needs:
Founder
Provides the vision for the organization
- Ambitious, natural leader
- Self-assured style with strong self confidence
- Always ready to jump in and lead regardless of circumstances
- Very long-term view
Example
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
The man who had a dream that has outlived him and profoundly affected subsequent generations
Takes the vision into strategic reality
- Strong ability to move a vision forward without disrupting the world
- A forceful style that keeps people on track
- Strong productivity focus
- Aggressive, sometimes pushing people beyond their limits
Example
Salman Khan
After he started uploading the lessons to YouTube in 2006, many students other than his cousins tuned in, and Khan realized he was onto something big. By 2009, he had quit his job to devote his time to Khan Academy, a revolutionary nonprofit offering free online video tutorials to people around the globe.
Takes the strategy, evaluates it, and makes it into a concrete plan with high standards
- Abstract planner, evaluator and shaper of plans and goals set by others
- Makes connections and understand plans at a very deep level
- Critical but not in a negative way
- Future oriented; the ideal person to bounce ideas off of
Example
Serwaa Adjei-Pellé
She built a successful career as a Business Strategist. As a Partner Consultant with PELLÉ + CO, she is passionate about working with SMBs to help them grow through strategic planning and content strategy.
Implements the concrete plans and makes them successful
- The consummate direction organizer
- Ability to handle many thinks in rapid succession
- Down-to-earth working style that is accomplishment oriented
- Disciplined and determined to succeed
Example
Mary Bara
GM's CEO since 2014, Barra is the first woman to lead one of the big three automakers in the U.S. In spring 2020, she shifted GM's production lines to help Ventec Life Systems make critically needed ventilators.
Organizes ongoing implementation of the plan and ensures progress
- Leads from the front with marker in hand
- The consummate details organizer
- Strong multi-tasker focused on immediate problems and solutions
- Sees work as a series of steps often managed concurrently
Example
Jacinda Ardern
The premier of New Zealand, who is empathetically steering her country through the aftermath of a terror attack and the deadly eruption of a volcano. Then the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and Ardern targeted not just suppression of the virus, but its complete elimination.
Looks ahead, anticipates what the team will need and brings in even more
- Independent and farsighted thinker
- Envisions what is ahead and seeks out new possibilities and opportunities
- Long-range focus
- Ideal scout for external threats and opportunities
Example
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
The visionary of the Internet. “The web is not a network of computers; the web is a network of people.”Berners-Lee imagined combining the Internet with linked hypertext documents, to provide access to an open-ended body of interactive information. In March 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project, one that would permit researchers all over the world to share work-in-progress, transmitted instantaneously, without the delays associated with traditional scholarly publication or cumbersome mail groups.
Takes resources as they come in, delivers them where they need to go or changes what you have into what you need
- Directs resources for highest utilization
- A decision maker focused on short-term objectives
- Two interrelated facets of orientation: delivering what is needed and protecting those who are actually getting work done
- Instinctual understanding of human resource motivations
Example
Chaitanya Karamchedu
Indian American high school senior that figured out a new way to create fresh water from sea water. Millions of lives are endangered due to lack of clean, safe, drinkable water in developing countries.
Keeps information flowing in, out and around the company
- Strong ability to evaluate people in terms of information they have to offer
- Driven to pass on information that is beneficial to group efforts
- Ability to get along with all types of people
Example
Adam Grant
American author, and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. Grant co-founded Give and Take, Inc., a company called Givitas, a SaaS platform that helps organizations implement the principles from his book Give and Take.
The troubleshooter who fixes problems before they grow and strives to make things right
- The ability to fix things, not in a mechanical sense but in a conceptual sense
- Ability to tackle mundane, stubborn problems that impede progress
- Does not judge root cause of issues but rather resolves impediments to productivity
Example
Hubert Joly
The one behind an amazing turnaround at Best Buy. While everybody was saying he should lay people off to solve the company’s problems, Joly instead listened to the people working for him and found solutions that didn’t involve people losing their jobs.
Repository of the organization’s wisdom and experience
- Ability to observe and acquire cultural knowledge of the organization
- Knows where the bodies are buried
- Comfortable working autonomously
- Strong ability to discern categories of information
Example
Oprah Winfrey
TV star, talk show host, billionaire actress, consummate connoisseur of wisdom.
What Business Owners are Saying about Opusuna:
Rob Martini
Are Procurement Manager, Microsoft
Brit Blacklidge
President & CEO Blacklidge
Will Martin
Chief Operations Officer, Cushion Employment Services
Deepika Shyam
Human Resources Business Partner, Amazon
Dr. Andrew Meikle
CEO, The Fertility Partners
Mark Tutton
President, Empire Communities
Mariela Gonzalez
Business Manager, Prosthodontic Associates
Ashley Elliott-Fleming
Recruitment & Talent, Elliott Homes
Sumeet Khanna
Vice President, Business Transformation & Strategic Initiatives, Microsoft
Dr. John F.K. Moore
COO, Blacklidge
Tania Sheridan
Director & Partnership Development, 123Dentist
Yoli Chisholm
Chief Marketing Officer, Venn
Carolyn Dewitt
Consultant, Coherent Counsel
Wendy Quon
IT Project Manager, Purolator Inc.
Lynn Henderson
Consultant, Coherent Counsel
Lindsay Minton
Sr. Account Manager, Walmart
Bruce Jones
eCommerce Development Manager, Discounter's Pool and Spa Warehouse
