Assessment and Development Centres

Who Should Attend?

Executives and key managers who need to refocus their personal and managerial behaviour to meet the future needs of the organisation.

Event Objectives

• Complete an agreed range of psychometric instruments and receive personal profile
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in varying observed simulated situations
• Identify potential for specific roles
• Gain knowledge of personal preferences and patterns of response
• Develop personal strategies for development of new responses where appropriate

Event Topics:

• Psychometric profiling
• Explanation of the models used
• Understanding your profile.
• 1 – 1 debrief of your profile.
• Simulated activities observed by specialists
• Whole group and 1:1 feedback on role play behaviour
• Implications for relationships and tasks at work
• Playing to your strengths, developing your weaknesses.
• Next steps and prioritizing.

Event Information

Duration: 2 Days
Format: Psychometric profiles are completed beforehand, on-line where possible and in advance. On the event, a mixture of group and individual work, discussion and activities, facilitated by an experienced development specialist. Style is informal and interactive.
Maximum: 12 participants

Benefits:

Working with your organisation, Coote Harvard can prepare assessment and/or development centres to assist with selection and development of executives and key managers to ensure they are prepared and focused on the priorities for your company’s future. The centres use psychometric profiling to raise levels of personal awareness and create strategies for personal work against a career plan. Assessment centres are powerful tools for selection of high level management capability, and when combined with personal development can be important life changing events for participants giving a clear map for the future.

Follow-up Events:

• Problem Solving, Creativity and Innovation