Assessment Centre Development

12 Apr 10 - 16 Apr 10 - London Book this course 08 Nov 10 - 12 Nov 10 - London Book this course
Duration: 1 week
Price:£2200
Course ref: 10AssCtr

Overview:

A well designed Assessment Centre is the most effective tool available for assessing your staff in both individual and group based environments for selection or development. Complex assessment techniques play a vital part in recruitment and development strategies of many successful organisations where recruiting the best people is of vital importance for future success.

Developing and regularly using assessment centres as part of your recruitment process further enhances your chances of successfully hiring top people and observing and assessing how people behave when asked to demonstrate ‘real work’ has been historically proven to be a most cost-effective way of measuring future productive work behaviour and potential.

Our Assessment Centre Development workshop is designed to assist you with your recruitment needs by providing you with the tools and know how to assess the competence of your candidates for development and
recruitment purposes.

This workshop will broaden your knowledge of the issues faced in setting up a successful assessment centre, enable you to practice and build on existing skills and help facilitate the decision-making processes.
 



Learning objective
You will be able to:
  • Understand the practical dimensions of running an assessment centre
  • Acquire the ability to transfer many of the skills learnt during the training programme so that participants may use them in work situations such as internal interviewing, staff appraisals and team building
  • Learn through interactive learning environments enabling delegates to gain maximum learning for their organisation and also learn from both shared experiences and the knowledge of the trainer
  • Develop your skills through extensive coverage of equal opportunities, diversity and disability issues

Course content
  • An understanding the stages in designing and planning a successful assessment centres
  • An understanding of competencies and how to assess against a competency framework
  • An understanding of the rules of fair and open competition
  • Techniques to avoid bias in interview and assessment
  • The range of tools available for assessment and development
  • How to administer and score cognitive psychometric tests
  • How to mark written exercises, group exercises, role plays and interviews against competencies
  • How to choose the right exercises for the roles being assessed
  • How to timetable an assessment day

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