Developing Supervisory and Managerial Skills for Promotion

8 hrs

 

The process of identifying key leaders is often a difficult one and, if done poorly, compromises the achievement of both personal and organizational goals. In the public sector, a variety of tools and instruments are utilized to identify, measure, and compare candidates who express the desire, and possess at least the minimum qualifications, to proceed in the process of being elevated into positions of greater responsibility and organizational purpose.

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Promotional processes can be as simple as an anointment by the organizational head, or his/her designee, an oral board only testing process, an written test only process, a written test coupled with an assessment center, an assessment center only process, or some other measurement device. Each can be as subjective or objective as the originator requests, but often, the results are misunderstood and/or misapplied.

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As candidates approach a time when they become eligible to participate in one or more of those processes, their awareness of how each is constructed, presented, and the results applied, can have the potential to improve their performance and enhance their organization once selected.

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Components

• Review of measuring employees.

• The written test and its strengths and weaknesses.

• The written test and the assessment center combined.

• The assessment center alone.

• The oral board alone.

• The use of behavioral dimensions in the assessment center.

• Types of assessment center exercises.

• Strategies for success.

• Group and individual exercises.