Clients use our assessment and development capability to achieve the following objectives:

• Private or corporate investors audit the management potential and value in an acquisition.
• Chief Executives and Board Members ensure succession planning is founded on a robust assessment of talent.
• Line managers make key appointments that take account of critical success factors.
• Top management, facing new challenges, select and develop the right people to meet their performance targets.
• Human Resource Development specialists ensure that the services they deliver meet the strategic needs of the organisation.

In all these situations, the decision-makers reduce the risk of making poor decisions by drawing on our expertise to:

• Identify the criteria against which people should be judged.
• Design and implement the assessment process.
• Benchmark performance against industry-relevant criteria.
• Provide unambiguous advice.
• Give individuals career enhancing feedback.

Our recommendations are always based on the careful analysis of diagnostic information. We use robust tools with proven reliability and validity to measure key dimensions of performance.

The challenge

The factors that determine how an individual will perform in a key role in the organisation will depend on the context of the organisation and its environment. Our assessment and development solutions are based on many validation studies and research programmes conducted by JQA and other experts on managerial and leadership performance.

What we offer

Our consultants are qualified Occupational Psychologists and Business Consultants with extensive business experience. We are able to add value to selection decisions because we have had line management or specialist professional experience and consulting experience in a range of business sectors. We have a proven track record of providing quality insights into the human dimensions of business performance.

We use the best available tools to measure key success factors.