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Censeo Announces the Early Adopter Release of TalentSIM: An Online Job Simulation Assessment for Leaders
Online job simulation positioned to be the most challenging and accurate leadership assessment available on the market today.
September 29, 2008
MAITLAND, FL – Censeo Corporation, the leading provider of innovative and user-friendly employee assessment technologies, is pleased to announce the early-adopter release of TalentSIM – a new and innovative leadership assessment.
TalentSIM is a challenging and interactive online assessment designed to measure the competencies and skills that make today’s leaders successful.
During the 2-hour experience delivered via the Internet, participants get a chance to take on the roles of five different leaders reacting to realistic business issues. At key times in the assessment, participants are asked to weigh in on how THEY would handle particular situations, and how THEY would go about making decisions. In addition to video vignettes, participants are provided with information such as emails, charts or graphs, or employee performance records in order to set goals or solve business problems.
The simulation measures the following seven leadership competencies:
- Planning and goal setting,
- Driving for results,
- Influencing and motivating others,
- Problem solving and decision making,
- Developing people,
- Building effective teams,
- Leading and managing change.
Once the leadership assessment is completed, participants receive an intuitive feedback report that outlines their overall performance against the norm, their personal competency and skill results, and a customized list of development suggestions to help increase their leadership capabilities.
TalentSIM was developed in partnership with 12 major companies from different industries. These partners were instrumental in helping define the competencies and skills to be measured, as well as validating the overall design requirements. Subsequent steps in the development of TalentSIM included: 1) creating realistic scenarios, situations, and assessment items which accurately measure the competencies and skills, 2) production of the media elements including video, sound, pictures, and reference materials, and 3) programming the actual assessment experience, scoring, and reporting.
During the recent pre-release preview of TalentSIM at the Society of Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) 2008 Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, attendees’ reactions revealed two primary themes. First, HR and training professionals viewed the online leadership assessment as a great way to introduce more objectivity into their succession planning and selection efforts, rather than making important leadership decisions solely based on a manager’s recommendation. Second, attendees quickly saw the utility of TalentSIM to narrow down the pool of leaders who are offered the opportunity to participate in a company’s more labor-intensive and expensive assessment center. “By sending only the best of the best to our company’s 2-day leadership assessment center, I could easily save 30%-40% on the total cost of our program,” remarked one SHRM member.
These thoughts were echoed by Censeo’s President and CEO, Ronald Gross, “Today’s release of TalentSIM represents a big day, not only for Censeo, but also for the assessment industry as a whole. Never before has such an extensive online simulation been available for the purpose of assessing leadership skills. We’ve truly created an assessment with many of the advantages of a full-blown assessment center, but with a fraction of the time and cost requirements.”
As part of its product launch strategy, Censeo is offering significant pricing discounts to companies who purchase TalentSIM assessments between today and December 31, 2008.
About Censeo Corporation
Censeo is dedicated to improving your organization’s talent. Our web-based technologies make it easy and affordable to automate your 360 degree feedback, employee survey, pre-employment skill assessment, and knowledge testing initiatives. More information regarding Censeo’s products and services can be found online at www.censeocorp.com.
Censeo’s other web-based assessment solutions include: Censeo 360™: an online, user-friendly 360 assessment process that eliminates all of the paperwork involved with the delivery of traditional multi-rater surveys. Users may choose from a library of established surveys, or deliver their own custom surveys. Censeo Survey™: enabling companies of all sizes to launch employee opinion/engagement surveys in a fraction of the time, with minimal effort. This product features the industry’s most intuitive online process with highly actionable reports. Censeo Testing™: an online test creation, delivery, scoring, and reporting system that automates all facets of a company’s labor-intensive knowledge testing process.
With highly experienced Industrial-Organizational Psychologists on staff and a commitment to 24/7 support, Censeo has become the partner of choice for organizations of all sizes.
For more information about Censeo, contact:
Jim Higgins
(407) 645-1600 x150
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