Tales from Central and Eastern Europe...on Running 101 Development Centres: A Practitioner's Review of Applying Assessment Centre Methodology in Times of Rapid Growth

With the need to develop future leaders the number of development centres has been going up each year. This presentation will summarise the practical challenges faced when implementing and running assessment center methodology and processes in Central Europe .

  • Does one competency profile really fit all?
  • Growing need for managers - more centres. Even though nominees are less experienced, statistical data suggests that the distribution of results is relatively stable.
  • Training assessors: internals vs externals. The effects of assessors' training on the nomination process - a desirable side-effect.
  • Integration sessions and consensus meetings: experiences from a diverse environment - best practices.
  • Where preparation meets training: the amount of information given prior to the centre.
  • Decreasing application of psychological tests: effects and caveats.
  • Out of our hands: the follow-up process after the centre.
  • Impact of language and culture: a wide area.

Ending with a practice compilation, the presentation will also include time and opportunity to share and exchange best practices.

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Speaker

Martin Musil
Matrix

Martin Musil co-founded matrix in 2001, - a Vienna-based consultancy partnership for training, coaching and mediation operating in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa .

Martin spends much of his time in the area of management and team development, running up to 20 development centers per year, as well as skill trainings. His clients are mainly from the IT industry, manufacturing and insurance.

With a background in economics, Martin started his career as a marketing professional in the IT industry. He then moved on into recruiting and training staff for customer contact centers when this business was starting up in Central Europe in the late 1980's. Applying Assessment Centre methodology for first selecting non-management and then developing people management candidates has become a critical success factor for his work. Martin extended his expertise into developing and validating competency profiles which then serve as the basis for designing bespoke assessment/development centers, business simulations and other methods to develop potentials.

Martin is a certified consultant for Managing Gender and Diversity and holds a license as a Structogram (biostructural analysis) trainer.