Certified Assessment Center Analyst

The use of the Assessment Center method to map employee competencies and look for leadership cadres has become increasingly widespread. The validity of the Assessment Center method is indeed relatively high, but this is also determined by the skills of the assessors who carry out this method.

By the end of the program you will learn:
- About skills required as an assessor professional in the assessment center method
- How to carry out the assessor function
- Understand concepts, practices, benefits and issues related to the Assessment Center
- How to conduct observations on behaviors during the Assessment Center training
- How to classify the behavior of observations into competencies according to the assessment criteria
- How to conduct an assessment of the behavior of observations in accordance with the required competency criteria
- How to integrate data about behavior; make conclusions from each of the existing criteria
- How to provide assessment feedback
Who should attend?

MODULE 1:Overview on Assessment Center
- What is an Assessment Center/History
- How an Assessment Centre looks?
- Common uses of Assessment Center
- Accuracy of Assessment Centre V/S Various Selection Methods
- How to develop Assessment Centre?
MODULE 2:Identifying Competencies
- Identifying and Mapping the Competencies
- Define and classify Competency
- Competency Iceberg Model
- Creating Functional specifications
- Creating Behavioral specifications
MODULE 3:Identification and Validation of Tools and Techniques
- Techniques Used and an overview of tools & exercises
- Interviews and tests
- Concept of Validity and reliability
MODULE 4:Creating Assessment Matrix
- Assessment Matrix Process
- Incremental Validity
- Time table and Budgeting Cost
MODULE 5: Assessors Evaluation and BARS
- Evaluating Candidates and Using BARS
MODULE 6: Assessors Calibration
- Role of an assessor and calibration
- Training and Evaluation
- Consensus Building
MODULE 7: Feedback Session and Developmental Intervention
- Giving Feedback
- Developmental Interventions

TRAINER PROFILE:

Name: Nitin Sanker
Experience: 30+ Years
Did his BE from IIT Roorkee and his MBA in HR and Marketing from IIM Calcutta.
His first 4 years after academics were spent as a Business Manager with PL accountability managing International training centers, as a instructional designer and learning consultant for NIIT and NIS. His next 4 years as a strategic consultant looking at process and people development with a strategic consulting firm which specialized in business transformation.

The last 20 years he has been designing award winning training programs, he has been an OD specialist working with Governments and Organizations like Samsung, Bank du Cairo, Government of Kuwait, Government of Indonesia, Dr Reddy labs, Tech Mahindra, Holcim Philippines etc. He is also visiting faculty with varied institutions Like ISB, IIM Calcutta, University of Jakarta, IIM Indore and others.

He functions currently as Middle HR’s CEO as well as taking up a dual role as a Lead Global Trainer, OD Consultant and CXO coach.

He has been awarded the HR Champion award from the Human Capital Institute, He was awarded for outstanding contribution to world HR by The world HR Congress, he has been recognized by Business India in their issue “best of the best” as one of the top 10 alumni from IIM Calcutta in the last 40 years.

Name: Nandita Asthana Sanker
Experience: 26+ Years
A Delhi University Graduate, she has an Advanced Strategic Management Qualification from IIM Indore.

She started her career with Global Advertising Agencies like Saatchi and Saatchi and RK Swamy BBDO in the creative function, extremely successful she grew quickly into the role of a creative director. Her interest in Training caused a mid-career switch to Learning and Development which has been her forte for the last 20 years. A global Trainer and Consultant she traverses the globe conducting training and Organizational Development interventions in countries like Egypt , Jordan , Australia , Indonesia and India. She has worked with over a 1000 organizations conducting open workshops and In-company interventions. She has been recognized as one of the top trainers in Asia in her field of expertise.

A serial entrepreneur she has helped set up two of India`s leading organizations in the Personal and Organizational Learning and development space - Middle Earth HR which today is One of Asia`s largest organizations in The L&D space and The Inner Courtyard which specializes in counseling and emotional growth. She has been featured along with luminaries like SreeSree Ravi Shanker as one of the top 20 professionals in the field of emotional growth and counseling in a bestselling book.

Name: Shuvam Das
Experience: 25+ Years
Shuvam holds a Hotel Management Degree from India`s Top Hotel Management College; He has majored in Marketing with a specialization in strategy from IIM Calcutta.

Senior professional with an experience spanning 20 plus years, with a background in strategic HR, L&D, operations, media, communications and strategy.

He has been a SBU head for Hindustan Times and worked at strategic level for one of India`s leading telcos. He has conducted change management and leadership training for clients in telecom and media, coached and mentored people in different industries at different levels, been involved with a PMS based on the Balanced Scorecard for telecom, structured a performance matrix and deployment for the Government of Kenya, which included coaching and mentoring, leadership training and setting up of a strategic learning structure using LMS, multimedia, and on the ground training.

He is passionate about learning and development as a tool to impact productivity at the operational level and strategy at the management level. Over the years he has trained, coached and mentored over 10,000 people at various levels across many industries and functions and has been awarded many times, both in his stint in the corporate world as well as a consultant.