Updated and revised Evalex Business Simulations
Leadership must be one of the most critical challenges in any organisations and in developing business leadership, it is crucial to use the correct assessment approaches to identify talent in order to reap the best return on subsequent development efforts. Using a less than optimal solution in assessing candidates for managerial and leadership roles can waste valuable time and resources.
The EBS is an online, cloud-based assessment centre that addresses these inconsistencies through the use of technology by putting candidates through their paces in six management simulations to assess management competence, emotional maturity and thought leadership. The EBS solution synthesises leadership competence, thought leadership, personality and styles (optional with Evalex Psychometrics), experience and performance into a talent classification and leader utilisation strategy. It is a powerful product that allows you to gather comprehensive talent intelligence on each leader in your company. This data is run through our advanced talent management software, which provides a rich tapestry of information at both individual and corporate level.
The Evalex team, including our consultants, assessors and IT specialists, having been working over the past few months to review and update our highly successful EBS solution in order to improve the user experience and system interface whilst retaining the high face-validity and predicative validity of the solution.
Based on continuous feedback provided by our clients, the following simulation enhancements took place:
- Revisions of the simulations to provide for a shorter, but still comprehensive assessment experience for the participant
- Update and modernisation of the case study organisation to reflect the current and future world of work, with a digital flavour
- New exercise content to tap into different levels of work
- Two Artificial Intelligence enabled exercises
At an individual level, EBS produces:
- A talent strategy for each leader
- Development plans for each leader
- Talent fit to current role
- Talent fit to future roles
- A development plan to move from current to future role
At a corporate level, EBS provides:
- Information on the quality and depth of talent at each level of management
- Identification of which levels of management are either at risk or conversely well stocked with talent
- Your company’s talent pipeline benchmarked against other organisations locally and globally
- Leadership development priorities for incorporation into your corporate leadership development strategy
During the four-hour Evalex Business Simulation, the candidate is required to respond to around 30 typical organisational and business issues. The way s/he deals with these issues projects his/her competencies, thought leadership, emotional maturity, management style, business knowledge and experience.
Responses are analysed by highly trained and experienced organisational psychologists. The candidate’s performance is compared against position-level benchmarks based on the Levels of Work framework, allowing us to form a picture of the level and type of position where this individual should be optimally utilised.
Leadership situations
To be effective, a leader must be able to deal effectively with six critical management situations, all of which are dealt with in EBS.
- Leadership in problem analysis and decision-making(digital animated interactive performance-based exercise): EBS present a business problem in an online environment where the candidate interacts with information in a dynamic way to assess problem solving and decision effectiveness competence.
- Leadership in general management (inbox): Typical organisational and management issues are dealt with, such as procurement, process design, cash flow and analysis of financial figures.
- Leadership in project management (business case): This involves translating strategic direction of the business into a project plan.
- Leadership in staff management (caselets): This includes typical staff management issues such as performance, skills development, remuneration and unions.
- Leadership in client relationship management (caselets): Here we look at typical client management issues including service delivery, client complaints and pricing.
- Leadership in interaction management (AI driven role play) A number of business issues are dealt with in an interactive situation.