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Employee Assessment

Spectrain design and participate in a range of employee assessment and development events specifically designed for clients including:

  • Recruitment & Selection events at 02 Telefonica
  • Executive secretary Assessment & Development Programmes for YLNG and DuPont
  • ILM Accredited Coaching Programme for a Client The Oil & Gas Industry
  • ILM Train the Trainer Assessment & Development Programme for a Client in The Oil and Gas Industry
  • ILM Accredited Executive Secretary Training and Assessment at DuPont
  • Supervisory Assessments at Littlewoods
  • Designing competency based assessments for Total at Yemen LNG
  • Competency Assessment at Cooperative Financial Services

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    Competency Identification

    We work with organisations to identify the competencies required to enable them to develop their people and align with their nationalization, succession, and business strategies.

    We have designed specific competency frameworks and updated existing competency frameworks for a range of organisations including: KPC, Total & Yemen LNG.

    Our approach to Training Needs Analysis is competency based; our focus is on identifying the skills, knowledge and behaviours required for your future success.and the developments that will impact your industry and therefore enabling succession planning.

    Competency frameworks enhance the following internal processes:

    • Recruitment & Selection
    • Performance Evaluation
    • Training Needs Analysis
    • Succession Planning
    We design bespoke competency based training and development events to enable learners to have exposure to and experience the skills and behaviours required for success in a range of roles in their organisation, enabling them to identify and assess their development needs.

    Customised Assessment Activity

    Spectrain have customised business simulations for AstraZeneca and ITV/Granada TV to include specific competencies. We also work with a small team of actors who in roles of auditors, inspectors, or reporters arrive at the events unannounced to produce a truly authentic experience. Please call us to discuss your requirements or complete the contact form here

    Business Simulations

    Business simulations provide a method of enabling individuals to experience situations and practice a range of skills in a safe environment.

    Exercise Brainwave

    Exercise Brainwave is a business simulation that involves participants in managing a range of events that take place in The Blakedown Centre a residential training centre.

    The activity is dynamic and presents a range of realistic challenges and difficult decisions that many businesses face in the current economic climate. Exercise Brainwave provides an opportunity for participants to develop and demonstrate their ability to manage a range of business problems and situations the activity presents learning opportunities that if transferred will produce sustainable business results

    Applications of Exercise Brainwave

    Exercise Brainwave is useful for supervisors to experience and develop an understanding of the issues facing senior management; The activity can also be used as tool to aid assessment of performance during recruitment, assessment and development centres.

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    Operation HighFlight

    Operation HighFlight is a one day business simulation that involves participants in managing a range of events that simultaneously impact business at the airline "DevonAir". The activity involves 8- 12 participants who form the management team at DevonAir

    Overnight the training venue is transformed to become the DevonAir operations centre. Reality strikes almost immediately as participants are faced with incoming phone calls from the outside world regarding a range of concerns, complaints, , and publicity matters both positive and negative What decisions will they make? How will those decisions impact the business?.

    Applications of Operation Highflight

    As Operation Highflight is an exercise that simulates real life first-line Managerial situations, it presents an ideal opportunity for competence-based assessment.

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