• .All the support you need to set up and run successful assessment and/or development centres - and to continue doing so without our help.
• Tailored to suit your specific needs - and within your specific budget!
• Incorporating best practice based on many years experience in a variety of settings.

We will help you, as much or as little as you want, through the following elements:

• Identifying the needs - selection, succession planning, development, training, teambuilding, motivation
• Establishing the criteria - competencies, qualities, skills, abilities, behaviours, traits ....; researching your own or using existing categories; practical experiences and research results
• Investigating the criteria - repertory grid, critical incidents, performance questionnaires; analysing job descriptions and appraisals; interviews and focus groups; other sources of information
• Choosing and training assessors, using peer assessments, observation and evaluation procedures, feedback skills, producing assessor guides; monitoring assessor results
• Designing simulations - identifying appropriate activities; advantages and pitfalls of off-the-shelf options; creating your own simulations; matching simulations to criteria ; writing simulations to match specific objectives; adapting simulations to fit contexts and needs
• Understanding the principles - each participant to have the 'same' experience; avoiding 'contamination' through prior knowledge; why use fictitious situations; evidence versus bias
• Organisational implications - introducing centres; briefing and debriefing managers and participants; the links with selection, appraisal, career planning; the impact of centres on training provision
• Administration - how to get the right people in the right places at the right times; dealing with the documentation; security of the assessment results; updating the information 

Our team of consultants is led by Julie Hay.  Julie has extensive experience of assessment and development centres in organisations as varied as British Airways, the Probation Service, Bull Information Systems, Schroders, Devon County Council and Sun Alliance.
She is the author of
Getting the Best Out of Development Centres, Cabinet Office 1996, circulated throughout central government departments and agencies;
The Gower Assessment and Development Centre, Gower 1996, a three volume manual containing checklists, sample programmes, suggested core competencies for management and professional occupations, and an extensive range of simulated exercises - all designed to be photocopied for in-house use
Mission to Enernova, a board game, and Simulations for Assessment, Training and Development, 4 sets of linked simulations that can be used in sequence or separately for assessment, training  and development activities.  Both of these are available from Sherwood Publishing.

Call us for a discussion about the ways we can help you.
There is no charge for such a consultation.