Assessment Centre Design and Delivery
Fairly measure candidate skills and future potential by developing your understanding, confidence and a comprehensive toolkit to develop and deliver effective Assessment Centres.
Overview
If you're looking to bring new talent to the business or develop existing people, making the wrong decision can have a substantially negative impact on business performance. Using a traditional interview alone has been proven to be a poor indicator of a candidate's potential. Assessment Centres are designed to focus recruitment and promotion decisions on the skills and abilities essential for the role and are highly predictive of future performance. By investing in the use of robust, evidence-based and comprehensive Assessment Centre techniques, the risks associated with making these decisions can be significantly reduced. This workshop will help you to design and deliver Assessment Centres that:
- Fairly and inclusively measure candidate skills and future potential.
- Close any skills gaps within the assessment team to ensure the use of a consistent methodology.
- Significantly increase the predictability of your assessment decisions.
"Really informative. It highlighted a lot of areas of where and how we can improve and develop our current programmes. I certainly feel more equipped to work and structure AC's." - Energy and Utilities
Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for hiring managers, assessors and internal resourcing teams. Assessment Centre Assessors and team members, whether you are already using 'Assessment Centres', re-introducing them or wanting to use them for the first time.
What's it all about?
It is imperative for organisations, now more than ever, that recruitment processes are both practical and efficient. CV-based or traditional interviews often do not provide sufficient information to make informed management decisions. Recruiting the right behaviours and competence across a range of areas is now the priority for most organisations.
This designing and delivering assessment centres workshop will provide you with the skills to significantly increase the predictability of your assessment decisions. It will help you to:
- Increase the predictive validity of your assessment processes – making the right people decisions the first time.
- Understand how to develop an assessment centre and choose the most appropriate assessment tools.
- Utilise a straightforward observation technique to refine your skills as an assessor.
- Learn how to identify true potential from the candidates you assess.
What will you get out of it?
It will help you to:
- Improve your skills as an assessor – understanding, developing and delivering your own Assessment or Development Centres.
- Make competency-based decisions – based on the role and the candidate's predicted future performance.
- Design an Assessment Centre – ensuring the right exercises are used at the right time.
- Ensure a fair assessment – a fair evaluation, separating fact from opinion, and without discrimination.
- Understand assessor requirements – understanding your role, integration meetings, feedback and centre management.
Typical workshop outline
This 2-day workshop is efficient, putting theory into action through engaging exercises. Delegates will receive plenty of opportunities to practise their skills and receive constructive feedback from experienced Assessment Centre practitioners. The workshop covers:
- Fairness and bias.
- Background to Assessment Centres.
- Competency-based assessment.
- Assessment Centre design.
- Methods of assessment.
- Competency-based interview questions.
- Timetabling.
- Legal requirements and discrimination.
- Inclusive assessment.
- Assessor skills.
- The ORCE Model.
- Practising assessor skills.
- Assessor role.
- Assessing virtually.
- Centre management.
- Integration meeting.
- Candidate feedback.
- Review our learning.
Duration and delivery methods available
This 2-day workshop is delivered face-to-face or online as an in-house workshop for groups and teams. We can customise the content to include your existing capabilities or to explore the challenges you currently face. Please get in touch with us for more information.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Writing Dynamics™ can contribute to your CPD recognition with leading professional bodies and trade organisations. You can usually record your attendance in the 'Organised Learning' or 'Self-Learning' sections. Please check with your membership organisation for more information.
In-House workshops
We send our consultant to your offices to train your entire team through an in-company workshop. This allows us to focus on the team's training needs and enables us to deliver it at a time and date that suits them, significantly reducing the per-delegate cost. Prices are based on 12 delegates; we can train up to 20 for an additional fee.
Delegate places are available at from £575pp + VAT.
