360 and Performance Assessment Design
Get a competency framework right for your organisation, and it makes a real, lasting contribution to your workforce practices. Get it wrong – or choose not to have one at all – and workforce planning and succession planning are compromised.
Identifying talent requires objective and robust assessment.
Well-designed assessments create reliable workforce evidence, helping organisations understand capability, readiness and development priorities.
Off-the-shelf assessments have their place – and are great at identifying generic traits and abilities.
But at times you need something more specific to reflect your organisation or roles or culture.
We develop, test and validate bespoke workforce assessments across all sectors, at every level of talent.
Our bespoke assessment design service can design:
- assessments for use at performance appraisal.
- 360 degree feedback assessments for learning and development planning, and high potential identification.
- exercises to differentiate between higher and lower performers.
Our assessment design and development approach is straightforward:
Practical skills – not just the theory
We’ll make sure that the assessment is practical, pragmatic, and workable – and that the competencies you need are measured across a variety of instruments. And we’ll make sure that you’ll access the information in easy-to-understand and easy-to-read reports.
Your organisation is unique (well, almost)
We’ll identify which competencies lead to success in your organisation, drawing on research and best practice to build a customised assessment. If you need a starting point, we offer our in-house competency framework free of charge.
Assessment design: robust and secure
We provide a complete solution by using our robust workforce intelligence platform Talent Cloud® to deliver the assessments – backed by our service level guarantee.
Designing your own assessment will:
- Give you a specific range of assessments that give you the information you need for your organisation.
- Provide clear signposts to the behaviours and skills you need
- Increase buy-in from applicants and candidates to the process
- Demonstrate commitment to fair, valid and robust assessment
- Provide a shared understanding of how to identify and spot potential
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Business psychologists design a bespoke 360 customising it around your competency framework or by tailoring another. They write and test the items and scales, analysing the data to ensure utility.
Off-the-shelf assessments work well – but investing in developing your own customised 360 reflects your brand, roles and organisation and is focused on the skills and behaviours relevant to you.
Base the items, ratings, language and workflow process on your organisation and competency framework. A customised 360 builds engagement and reports only on the relevant skills and competencies.
Work with a business psychologist to map out a bespoke performance review, select a configurable performance review tool, tailor the language, ratings and reports to meet your needs.
It has to be dependable, so the signals it provides and the decisions built on it hold up. And it has to work in practice: easy to understand, and easy to act on.