Frontline Leadership Crucial to Employee Trust and Productivity As the nation and the world faces a crisis of faith in organizational leadership and jobs are being slashed daily, assessing those who manage and lead becomes critically important. After all, frontline …
Category Archive: Best Practices
Guidelines for Best Practice in the Use of Assessment and Development Centers
Why should my organization use an Assessment and/or Development Center? Many organizations recognise that selection and development procedures for their people are of paramount importance in order to achieve competitive advantage. Increasingly, they are turning to the Assessment Center approach, …
Best Practices in Unproctored Testing
Our best practice recommendations are driven by the results of our research and experience helping clients implement UIT solutions. 1. Document the business case for implementing unproctored testing. Like any testing related program, documentation is critically important to developing a world-class …
Evaluating and Optimizing the Effectiveness of the Assessments
What are the reasons for monitoring and evaluating our selection systems after implementation? As jobs and job requirements change, assessment programs need to be updated to reflect these changes Monitoring results helps identify areas where administrators are not consistently following …
Guidelines for Best Practice in Large Scale Assessment
Large scale assessment is no different from the smallest selection procedure in aiming to provide the best information possible on each individual to allow effective decisions to be made. Both should start from a clear understanding of the job requirements, …
Validation and Business Outcome Study Best Practices
Although, there are differences between validity and business outcome studies, many of the same best practices apply to both. PreVisor has extensive experience in conducting validity and business outcome studies dating back over 50 years. Based on this experience, as …
Best Practices Overview for Implementing Selection Assessments
The key to effective hiring and promoting goes beyond simply purchasing an assessment and adding it to the hiring process. While this option may appear relatively quick and inexpensive, we believe organizations are better served by using a systematic approach …
Assessment Program Best Practices & Solution Design: The Right Mix
Dr. Ken Lahti, Director of Client Solutions at PreVisor, Inc., suggests that a good overall assessment program is structured to address concrete business needs while also incorporating formal decision rules. Lathi suggests that the assessment program used by anorganization should …
Better Talent Management Through Talent Measurement
In talent management, we are interested in getting the right people in the right roles and helping them achieve their fullest potential. But ”talent,” defined as a capacity for success, is not a guarantee of success- though it sure helps. …
Determining Return on Investment
Are assessments worth the investment? Yes. Assessment Analytics has repeatedly demonstrated that using assessments helps employers make better hiring decisions and improve business outcomes, such as increased revenue and productivity. In addition, effective use of selection assessments can lead to …