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Assessment and Development Centres

Hiring and promotion decisions are crucial. If you rely on unstructured interviews alone you may as well flip a coin.

Get it wrong and it will cost you a fortune in time, hassle and lost productivity to deal with. What’s more, what really differentiates your best people from the rest is not what they know, but how they go about it. Of course people need to be competent, but it is their behaviour that makes them either a pleasure or a pain to work with. Research shows that well constructed assessment and development centres are the most valid predictors of future job success as they focus on assessing behavioural skills.

If you are looking to select the best people from your recruitment process then an assessment centre will significantly increase the chances of getting it right. If you are looking to develop your talented people for the future then a development centre will help you identify where to focus their development.

We have extensive experience of designing and running both assessment and development centres.

How does the process work?

In a slightly more structured way to The Apprentice(!) participants are observed by professional assessors during a series of exercises, all designed to simulate tasks that reflect real life for a particular role. Typical exercises include group discussions (which can either be competitive or collaborative), one-to-one role plays, analysis exercises, inbox exercises, presentations and case studies etc. Each participant is observed by a different assessor during each exercise ensuring that multiple assessments are made and bias is minimised. Assessors use the ORCE process to translate their observations into an evaluation of the participant’s performance against the specific behavioural competencies being assessed. At the end of the event, all the data from each assessor is compiled for each participant resulting in overall scores for how they performed against those competencies.

The data from the event can be made even more powerful by including psychometric profiling, Competency Based Interviews and 360º feedback.

How can we help you?

We can put together a complete assessment/development process for you, from initial design right through to development of each participant.

We will help you:

*	Identify what you wish to measure in terms of competencies and specific behaviours
*	Design the event including all logistics, exercise content, assessor and participant materials
*	Provide assessor training for internal assessors
*	Provide experienced external assessors
*	Incorporate psychometric profiling and 360º feedback to further strengthen the process
*	Manage each event including teh decision making or "wash-up" process
*	Provide individual feedback to participants
*	Provide developmental support to praticipants through coaching or tailored workshops

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