Talent is already visible across your organization. You just need to know where to look.
Star Tracks™ uses knowledge distributed across an organization’s collaboration network to identify people who are recognised by colleagues as demonstrating behaviours closest to a defined target profile.
Your organization knows more about its talent than job titles reveal.
Star Tracks™ uses a competency-based approach. The organization defines behavioural indicators for the talent profile it is looking for, and colleagues then identify people whose observed behaviours most closely match that profile.
How does Star Tracks™ work?
Talent identification is based on a 4-step process confronting defined criteria with nominations across the collaboration network:
Define the target profile
The organization defines the talent criteria using specific behavioural indicators.
Team nominations
Participants nominate people who best demonstrate the defined target behaviours.
Network analysis
Star Tracks™ analyses both the number of nominations and their weighting based on the frequency of contact within the collaboration network.
Rankings and insight
The report presents the synthetic Indeks ST™ (ST Index) together with multidimensional views of the people identified.
Number of nominations and Indeks ST™
In Star Tracks™ methodology, significance lies not only in the number of nominations, but also in the distance across the organizational network:
Indeks ST™ incorporates both the number of nominations and their weighting based on distance in the organizational network. Nominations from people who work with an individual less frequently receive a higher weight in the analysis.
There is no single type of talent.
The official Star Tracks™ report provides not only a general ranking, but also distinguishes characteristic operational profiles within the organization:
Stars visible from afar
People who receive the highest number of nominations from their most distant collaborators. Their behaviours are recognised even by colleagues who work with them relatively infrequently.
Local leaders
People who receive the highest number of nominations from regular collaborators — those who work with them frequently and recognise their behaviours in everyday cooperation.
Versatile stars
People whose profiles show the broadest range of behaviours included in the questionnaire, where a behaviour is recognised by at least three people.
Behaviour champions
People receiving the highest number of nominations for specific behavioural indicators.
Star Tracks™ Final Report
Review the structure of the official Final Report provided following the Star Tracks™ assessment.
- •Process assumptions: Definition of behavioural indicators and identification criteria.
- •Main ranking: People with the highest Indeks ST™ results.
- •Stars visible from afar & Local leaders: Distinctive profiles within the collaboration network.
- •Behaviour champions: Detailed rankings for specific behaviours.
See Star Tracks™ in practice
Watch the official presentation explaining how the Star Tracks™ organizational network methodology is used.
Where can Star Tracks™ be used?
The methodology is applied to identify and activate key talent across the organization:
Talent identification
Identify people recognised by colleagues as demonstrating the behavioural indicators the organization is looking for.
Change-leader identification
Identify people who are highly recognised within the collaboration network and noticed across the organization.
Key-person identification
Assess visibility and contribution in the context of important projects and organizational challenges.
Using distributed organizational knowledge
Access knowledge about people that already exists across the organization but is not visible in formal reporting lines or job structures.
Explore Star Tracks™ in more detail
Download official PDF materials available in the Advisio repository.
Star Tracks™ brochure
Official brochure describing the organizational network methodology and talent-identification process.
Work with Star Tracks™
Star Tracks™ is used by Advisio Certified Partners who are prepared to design and support talent-identification processes.
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