Censeo periodically conducts Webinars to share best practices on a variety of assessment related topics. These Webinars are free, and usually last about one hour.

Over the years, Censeo’s webinars have earned a reputation for quality. Rather than a sales forum, we truly focus on adding value by providing new ideas and/or materials that help to ensure the success of your next assessment initiative.

Upcoming Webinars

Topics for our 2008 Webinar Series are listed below.

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“Thinking About Conducting an Employee Survey? Here's How to Make it a Success!”

Censeo I-O Psychologists Dr. Ronald Gross and Dr. Michael Zia Mian discuss how employee surveys can be a powerful tool for improving organizational effectiveness, but why they often fail to lead to significant positive change. Best practices are shared to help make your next survey a success.

Attendees receive session materials and an item pool which can be used as a starting point to develop an effective survey.

Session completed for 2008

“Tips to Help You Facilitate an Effective 360 Degree Feedback Discussion”

Censeo Co-founder Jim Higgins and I-O Psychologist Dr. Michael Zia Mian discuss several best practices to help you (or others on your team) facilitate more effective 360 feedback discussions, including:

• The timing for distributing feedback reports to participants
• Whether the session should be handled in an individual or group setting
• Setting the tone and objectives for the session
• Helping participants “cut through” the data and promoting constructive dialog
• How to deal with the tough case scenarios

Tuesday, November 11

“Creating High-Quality Quizzes and Tests: A Practical ‘Short Course’ for Assessment Authors”

Censeo Co-founder Jim Higgins presents a “short course” to those involved in test design and authoring for their company. Specifically, he will address:

• Accurately linking test content to the objectives
• Developing a test blueprint
• Selecting the most appropriate question types for the objective
• Avoiding the most common test authoring mis-steps
• Drafting high quality questions
• Piloting/modifying the test
• Performing an item analysis to measure quality and continually improve your tests

Attendees receive a detailed white paper on the topic as well as a criteria checklist for test authors.

Session Completed for 2008

“Going Beyond the Numbers: Leveraging Employee Survey Data to Facilitate Positive Organizational Change”

Even with successful employee survey initiatives, many companies miss important opportunities to fully leverage the survey results to improve organizational effectiveness and employee commitment/engagement. The survey content is excellent, the survey administration goes flawlessly, and the survey reports are sound - but what happens after the survey doesn't yield nearly as much positive change as it could.

Censeo I-O Psychologist Dr. Ronald Gross shares a variety of best practices on what leading companies do to:

• Provide line managers the support and skills they need to leverage the survey results in their units
• Hold people accountable for acting on the survey results, without making the process administratively burdensome
• Analyze the data to identify the key drivers of commitment, engagement, satisfaction, retention and organizational effectiveness
• Martial resources to develop sound action plans to deal with opportunities that should be addressed on an organization-wide basis
• Make changes stick so the next survey shows real progress
• Do these things (and others) without becoming dependent on outside consulting expertise
  

Tuesday, December 9

“360 Degree Feedback 101: The 10 Fundamentals of a Successful 360 Process”

If you’re considering the use of 360 degree feedback for the first time, you’re new to managing a 360 survey process, or you’re just looking for a refresher on the basics, this session is for you!

Censeo Industrial-Organizational Psychologists Dr. Michael Zia Mian and Anna Tolentino help you gain a solid foundation for implementing a successful 360-degree feedback process. The session addresses the following questions:

• What is 360 degree feedback, and why is it used?
• Confidentiality: Why is it so important and how do you protect it?
• How do I communicate an upcoming survey?
• What should my company measure in a 360 survey?
• How do I encourage accurate ratings and increasing response rates?
• What’s important when it comes to reporting results to my leaders?
• How do I deliver feedback in a way that promotes action?

Attendees receive the session materials as well as a white paper to help ensure the success of any 360 campaign.

Session completed for 2008

“Censeo’s TalentSIM: An Online Job Simulation to Improve Your Selection and Development Systems for Leaders”

Research has shown that job simulations have higher validity in measuring leadership skills than other assessment methods, and that simulations provide the basis for the most useful kind of feedback for development purposes.  For example, assessment centers work better than any other single assessment method.  However, they are very costly and time consuming to develop and run.

Join this one-hour Webinar to see how Censeo’s TalentSIM, an online assessment based on job simulation, captures many of the advantages of assessment centers, but at a fraction of the cost and time required.  After reviewing the scientific principles behind job simulation, and the competency model critical to leadership success, the presenters will show a demo of TalentSIM and the various types of scenarios and response scales used.

Webinar participants will receive session materials and the competency model on which TalentSIM is based.

Thursday, October 16

“360 Degree Feedback: The Transition from Insight to Positive Behavioral Change”

When polling clients and webinar participants about the effectiveness of their 360-degree feedback efforts, a clear theme has been observed:

Huge opportunity still exists to better leverage the power of 360 to promote positive and lasting behavioral change.

So what differentiates a highly effective 360 campaign from a typical 360 campaign? Censeo believes the answer to this question lies in what clients do AFTER the survey. Too often, 80% of the focus is placed on logistical issues like survey assignment, completion rates, and producing the reports - with only 20% effort being focused on leveraging the data after the survey.

Censeo I-O Psychologists Dr. Michael Zia Mian and Anna Tolentino help participants view the 360 process more holistically, with special emphasis on:

• What data is most valuable to participants in terms of personal development, and how this data should be interpreted
• The most common methods for delivering feedback to participants, and which is most appropriate for your situation
• How to “bridge the gap” between insight and ACTION
• What role the participant's manager should play in the 360 feedback process
• How to position 360 feedback as a continuous improvement process, rather than a point-in-time event

Attedees receive a detailed white paper on the topic as well as session slides.

Session completed for 2008

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