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Are assessment centres and development centres same?
I want to know about courses for being certified assesors.
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Yes, no, and maybe.
As they are just generic titles, in some organisations they are the same thing.
In others they are clearly demarked into different camps, in that assessment centres are designed to assess the suitability of either candidates or existing staff for roles and/or further development.
Whereas in these organisations a development centre is designed to develop skills identified in the assessment centre.
I'm not a big fan of assessment centres, they don't appear to add much in the way of additional information to more standard/straightforward (and less expensive) methods of assessing candidates. (Research published in the New Scientist showed that a 5 minute interview was equally effective in determining candidate suitability for a given role and was considerably cheaper to perform than an assessment centre).
As for courses, do a google search, there's no unified body of assessors as such that have an uneqivocal right to determine who is OK to be an assessor and who is not, so pick a provider you think adds value is relatively local and go with that.
Thanks Nik.
this leads to another question :-) how do Individual Development Plans work once you assess the internal employees?
I am aware of small sets up for IDP but i am exploring more ways to make it a core area.
Hi Richa, I'm not quite sure what you are asking here, would you mind elaborating a little please?
Are you talking about how you can create a development framework which is compatible with your IDP's?
Hi Nik,
yes, I want to know about creating a developent framework.
It's a little chicken and egg Richa, you can either...
a.) Once you have completed your IDP's - aggregate all the information, and use this to create a development framework (commonly identified needs or themes for large groups being delivered by in house folks, and rarer needs outsourced for example)
or
b.) You can cheat, do a large scale TNA at an organisational level, and then try and force the IDP's to conform to that plan... (it's easier, but messier in the long run as you aren't truly matching individual development needs during this process)
or
c.) Best of all, you can do both a and b, and revise both frameworks according to the results, which is most work but the best method.
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