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Assessment and development centers
An assessment or development center provides a powerful foundation for an organization's talent management processes. An assessment center provides an evaluation of employees' strengths and weaknesses and provides significant developmental feedback at the end of the program. The organization would own the results. A development center focuses on maximizing development during the program by providing multiple feedback sessions during the program. The individual would have control over who had access to their results within the organization. The choice between an assessment or development center depends on an organization's specific needs:
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Assessment center: identify, calibrate and develop your talent
An assessment center enables an organization to identify their highest potential talent, provide in-depth developmental feedback on strengths and priorities for development, calibrate and compare their talent worldwide, and thereby, create a more 'level-playing-field' for opportunity, selection and succession in an organization. On the strategic level, an assessment center enables an organization to understand key messages about the aggregate strengths and priorities for development in their leadership talent pool and emerging talent pipeline. After several programs, there would be sufficient data to aggregate all participant competency profiles. This aggregation would produce a graphic chart that highlighted the number of strengths, development areas and priorities for development for each competency. Analyses would reveal any significant patterns and trends that could be utilized for strategic purposes.
Development center: develop your talent with powerful feedback
A development center can provide a critical contribution to an organization's leadership development processes. A development center enables an organization to provide in-depth developmental feedback on strengths and priorities for development during the center, enabling participants to incorporate feedback and practice new behaviors in subsequent exercises. A development center provides a safe and confidential setting for personal development as the results would be owned by the participant. |
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Building on significant best practice experience and expertise, we will work in partnership with your organizations to design and deliver an assessment or development center program or critically review your existing assessment or development center and make recommendations on how to strengthen your program (and in the case of assessment centers, maximize the value of participant results):
Designing an assessment or development center
Assessment or development centers can be designed for junior professionals, middle managers or senior leader participants. Exercises would incorporate a variety of complex operational and strategic business issues that would challenge the designated level of participants. Exercises would enable observations of participants in structured and unstructured strategic, operational and interpersonal exercises, including:
- an interactive in-tray that would enable individuals to work alone or with their colleagues to solve critical operational and strategic problems (establishes the foundation for the business simulation)
- individual exercises that enable individuals to evaluate the strategy of the business, develop a new strategy, present their strategy to the CEO or meet with a direct report for a coaching discussion
- small group exercises where a team of three individuals work together to achieve a common goal (e.g., evaluate a business opportunity and present to the CEO) or competing goals (e.g., business advantage unique to each region or business)
- large group exercises where two teams of three individuals present and discuss competing business opportunities or discuss critical issues facing the organization and generate recommendations
Critical review of an existing assessment or development center program
Does your current assessment or development center need a health check? Are you confident that your program would 'pass' a critical technical/professional review? Would you like to maximize the value of the results from your program and the subsequent personal development? We will critically review all aspects of your existing assessment or development center (e.g., business simulation, exercises, assessment, structure, technical delivery, integration, feedback, reports, administration and use of results within the organization) and provide recommendations to strengthen your existing assessment or development center.
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