Innovations in Assessment Design/Process Create New Patterns In Assessing Skills Before Hiring Or Promotion

There must be a better way you ask? There is! We focus on the total individual in the context of the job and organizational demands.

Focus on complete simulation, not on dimensions or individual constructs

Our objective is to look for overall ability.

  • Dimensions more carefully framed in terms of outcomes, not traits.
  • More emphasis on style and approach, not just behavior. Less focus on "counting" behaviors.
  • Assessment for organizational fit...
  • Regarding strategies of business
  • Competitive vs. collaborative
  • Team/service
  • Strategic needs and direction
  • More "clinical", more focus on predictability and less on description. "Will this person be able to shape the future?"
  • Less concern regarding "overall assessment rating" (OAR) and more on "in what situations/setting will this person be most effective?"
  • Feedback directed more toward learning and insight and less toward "report card".
  • Assessments and findings directed more toward development and life changing experiences.

In the Spirit of Continuous Improvement We Lead the Pack With Innovations in Assessment Methodology

  • Greater realism in simulations
  • Combine all methods into one complete evaluation
  • Behavioral audition/simulation to evaluate the candidate's real capability
  • Appropriate testing to determine style, motives, and thinking the candidate brings to the job and to the organization
  • Computer assisted scoring to assure accuracy
  • In-depth directed interviewing to increase reliability and equality
  • Complete detailed feedback report including coaching if desired to build and strengthen the candidate as a result of participating in the selection process

The Core Skills Behavioral Audition Also Offers Improvements On Traditional Assessment Centers

Efficiency

  • Eliminate time consuming exercises
  • Eliminate time consuming assessor evaluations and consensus meetings
  • Eliminate time consuming exercise report writing

Flexibility

  • Can be done when, where, for any number, and for any job needed on as little as 24 hours notice

Reliability

  • Eliminates the most frequent sources of legal challenge (relevance, fairness)
  • Assessors are not required to learn complex set of rules and procedures
  • Tasks for assessors are less complex and varied (administrative, observational)
  • Our staff of expert assessors eliminates the hassle
  • Eliminates interpersonal and experiential biases of assessors

Quality of Integration to Lead Toward Development

  • Results are more timely
  • Expert recommendations and follow up is more convincing
  • More extensive developmental recommendations

Addition of 360º Reviews

  • Adds to insight and understanding
  • Brings real life job activities into the evaluation process

Typical Simulations Makes An Assessment Look More Like An Audition Than A Test.

Analysis Exercises - A variety of situations and organizations are represented. The participant assumes the role of counselor or analyst presenting an evaluation and recommendation to resolve problems presented. A sort of advanced case study process.

In-Baskets - The most important and highly researched tool of evaluation, the in-basket provides a variety of letters, memos, problems, requests, demands, and situations that require response. The participant actually delegates, writes, recommends, or schedules as if s/he were the manager in the situation.

Fact Finding and Decision Making - Participants probe for facts and analyze information to make decisions that must be defended and explained.

Coaching and Leadership Simulations- Participants interact with role played subordinates, peers, supervisors, or customers to influence, direct, advise, or sell ideas. A number of different situations may be presented to provide different challenges and settings.

Group Decisions/Discussion - A variety of assigned roles demanding cooperation, problem solving and creativity. Varied meeting formats are used to elicit behavior related to organization, leadership, influence, and team skills. (Group situations are limited to traditional group assessment centers.)

Scheduling Simulations - Participants are required to make work assignments and to deal with unexpected (yet realistic) events and problems.

Paper and Pencil Evaluation - A variety of leadership, communications, self descriptions, and personality profiles are used depending on the job, to enhance our understanding and to assist in coaching, 360º evaluations are also used when appropriate.

For a variety of positions.

  • Senior Executives .
  • Regional Managers
  • Plant Managers
  • Key Government Managers and Directors
  • Private Sector Directors
  • Sales Managers
  • Sales Representatives or Consultants
  • Staff Managers . Quality Specialist/Analysts
  • School Administrators/Principals
  • Protective Service Managers and Executives

For a variety of organizations.

  • Education
  • Financial
  • Governmental
  • Manufacturing
  • Technology
  • Law Enforcement
  • Retail
  • Service
  • Utility
  • Wholesale
  • Distribution

For a variety of competencies and roles

  • Vision/impatience with status quo
  • Innovation and disciplined risk taking
  • Collaboration
  • Negotiation
  • Coaching
  • Goal Direction
  • Mentoring
  • And a variety of others

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