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All the support you need to set up and
run successful assessment or development centres - and to continue doing
so without our help.
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Tailored to suit your specific needs -
and within your specific budget!
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Incorporating best practice based on
many years experience in a variety of settings.
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We will help you, as much or as little as you want,
through the following elements:
- Identifying the needs - selection, succession
planning, development, training, teambuilding, motivation
- Establishing the criteria - competencies, qualities,
skills, abilities, behaviours, traits ....; researching your own or using
existing categories; practical experiences and research results
- Investigating the criteria - repertory grid, critical
incidents, performance questionnaires; analysing job descriptions and
appraisals; interviews and focus groups; other sources of information
- Choosing and training assessors, using peer
assessments, observation and evaluation procedures, feedback skills,
producing assessor guides; monitoring assessor results
- Designing simulations - identifying appropriate
activities; advantages and pitfalls of off-the-shelf options; creating
your own simulations; matching simulations to criteria ; writing
simulations to match specific objectives; adapting simulations to fit
contexts and needs
- Understanding the principles - each participant to
have the 'same' experience; avoiding 'contamination' through prior
knowledge; why use fictitious situations; evidence versus bias
- Organisational implications - introducing centres;
briefing and debriefing managers and participants; the links with
selection, appraisal, career planning; the impact of centres on training
provision
- Administration - how to get the right people in the
right places at the right times; dealing with the documentation; security
of the assessment results; updating the information
Our team of consultants is led by Julie
Hay. Julie has extensive experience of assessment and development centres in
organisations as varied as British Airways, the Probation Service, Bull
Information Systems, Schroders, Devon County Council and Sun Alliance.
She is the author of
Getting the Best Out of Development Centres,
Cabinet Office 1996, circulated throughout central government departments and
agencies;
The
Gower Assessment and Development Centre, Gower 1996, a three volume
manual containing checklists, sample programmes, suggested core competencies for
management and professional occupations, and an extensive range of simulated
exercises - all designed to be photocopied for in-house use
Mission
to Enernova, Gower 2002, a board Game developed with Peter Emery
Simulations for
Assessment, Training and Development,
Gower 2004, photocopiable manual plus
CD-ROM that contains 4 sets of linked simulations that can be used in sequence
or separately for assessment, training and development activities
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