Each development centre is designed to meet your specific requirements whilst ensuring that the assessment process is highly accurate, stable and job relevant. Reporting is based on observed, measured behaviour: objective evidence is provided rather than subjective inferred judgement.
A development centre will include simulations, role plays, exercises, group and individual tasks, plus may include personality or emotional intelligence assessment tools.
When to use development centres
- Identifying potential
- Diagnosis of training and development needs
- Organisational planning
- Restructuring
What development centres identify
- Employees’ potential
- Employees’ competencies
- Development needs of individual employees
Development centres usually:
- do not have a pass/fail criteria
- Are geared towards developing the individual
- Address a longer term need
- Have a 1:1 ratio of assessor to participant
- Do not have line managers as assessors
- Have a greater emphasis placed on self-assessment
- Focus on potential
- Are geared to meet the needs of the individual as well as the organisation
- Assign the role of facilitator to assessors
- Place emphasis on developmental feedback and follow up with little or no selection function
- Give feedback immediately
Benefits of development centres
- Reduction in turnover and recruitment costs (as the most appropriate person is selected for the role)
- Identification of high potentials within an organisation
- Identification of individual strengths
- Identification of individual development needs
- Identification of skills gaps within the organisation
- Provision of a robust process for restructure
- Provision of solid information for Succession Planning
- Production of a detailed Talent Audit
Customising a development centre to your specific needs
There is no such thing as a ‘standard’ centre – some can last as little as half a day, while others can be three days or more. We will discuss the end result you require and design a development centre around your context, requirements and budget.
