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Uses
for management assessment
- Use a
professional assessment process for: -
- Selection
or promotion to critical roles; succession planning.
- Identifying
development needs and planning to meet them.
- Pinpointing
suitable moves for plateaued managers.
- Diagnosing
reasons for a performance problem.
- Re-organization.
- Assessing
receptivity to organizational changes.
- Launching
a coaching programme to improve executive performance.
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What
is management assessment?
Professional assessment
is simply a systematic process based on selected questionnaires, exercises
and an interview, such as:-
- Personality
and work style inventories
- Reasoning tests
- Situational
exercises to simulate the target role
- Assessment Centres
- 360 degree feedback
from work colleagues and/or customers
- Structured interviews
Doing professional assessments
- The results
of a personality questionnaire need to be interpreted carefully and
cross checked in an interview.
- Personality
profiles can be inaccurate if candidates have poor self insight or are
trying to create a good impression.
- Other exercises
should be used, oral and written, to supplement personality questionnaires.
- An effective
assessment depends on experienced judgement based on data from a number
of sources.
- All assessment
data should be discussed with candidates before any reports are written.
- Openness on
the part of the assessor encourages more openness from candidates.
- Discussion of
results allows the assessor to check initial findings in more depth
by asking for examples.
- It is important
to learn the meaning of specific indicators to candidates - their interpretation
provides extra insight.
- A professional
assessment report should be structured around the competency profile
for the target job.
All
pages written by Mitch
McCrimmon, Ph.D. and copyright © Self Renewal Group 1996-2008
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