Managerial assessment

When you're making a key recruitment or succession planning decision - we give you new insight into candidates. We can also help your people understand their own strengths to plan career and training needs.

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Best practice assessment techniques such as in-depth clinical interviewing, executive simulations and referee checking. These deliver far greater insight than behavioural interviewing and personality testing alone.

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Interpretive skill and judgement, ensuring assessments that are meaningful to your needs. We frequently manage high-profile and sensitive appointments, tight time-frames, and political environments.

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Totally independent advice so personality aspects do not influence decisions. Unlike recruitment consultants, we have no financial interest in candidates.

Organisational surveys

How do your staff feel about management? Do they agree with the vision? Do they have the skills and experience they claim? Our organisational surveys will give you the true answers.

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Surveys tailored to your business so you get the right information. We go deeper than 'off the peg' surveys, giving you an in-depth understanding of the critical issues.

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Sophisticated interpretation. As specialists in employee satisfaction surveys, we precisely identify the management practices impacting on business success. Our extensive New Zealand information database allows strengths and weaknesses to be assessed against other organisations.

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Leading-edge technologies mean surveys can be conducted by internet or LAN, or by paper methods.

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Fast results so you have information when you need it.

Feedback for managers

Our 360 degree or multi-source survey is a potent management development tool, giving you feedback from colleagues, staff and even clients. It is more accurate and balanced than traditional appraisals, costs little in time and effort, and opens the door to significant organisational and individual change.

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Constructive processes to encourage positive participation - and avoid the personality issues and wasted effort so common to feedback processes.

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A tailored approach. We have applied the 360 degree survey to many business sectors. Drawing from this experience, we can quickly and effectively match the survey to your needs.

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Leading-edge technologies mean surveys can be conducted by internet or LAN, or by paper methods.

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A focus on turning knowledge into action - our facilitators work with your people to interpret results, identify development needs and develop an action plan.

MINT - Career Planning and Development Website

Mint is a website that enables employees to take control of their development. Mint works by placing professional development into a wider career management framework. The core functionality is an interactive competency assessment that helps people identify what they need to develop. The website then uses this information to make personalised professional development recommendations.

But Mint is much more. People can use Mint to find courses, books and articles. Other tools on the website help people decide which career path is right for them, see which career best fits their current skill set, and identify what they can do to increase job satisfaction.

Some of the unsolicited comments from people using Mint are paraphrased below:

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"Excellent Product. Interactive and user friendly. Provides a very useful structure to allow some focus on areas for personal development that can be maintained easily. Link to appropriate development resources is great."

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"Currently I am at a bit of a crisis point with my career choices...your software went straight to the heart of my motivations and has helped highlight my dilemmas and make a choice. Great Tool."

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"I have just used Mint to help prepare for my performance review - it is a fantastic tool and really helped me to determine my current job satisfaction and what I need to do in the future to achieve my career goals."

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"Great tool - very interesting to complete and forces me to strategically think about my career/business development. Really like the link to the development plan from the competency assessment."

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"Absolutely fantastic website that is functional and informative. I really like that layout whereby you have suggested ways to improve your development areas."

Leadership Development

Cerno can enhance your organisation's leadership bench-strength. We start by assessing both the current capability and future potential of your leaders. Based on this information, we then work with them to determine the strategies that will maximise their leadership performance.

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Tailored development centre-based processes that are supported by research and our extensive experience in assessing and identifying development strategies for over 7,000 managers.

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Accurate and insightful judgements about people's leadership capability.

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Compelling and practical developmental feedback that participants, their managers and the organisation can use to increase leadership capability.

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Highly skilled and experienced psychologists. Cerno’s people specialise in the assessment of managers, meaning that you gain the judgement and insight of seasoned organisational psychologists. Clients consistently compliment us on our ability to pinpoint development needs they have found difficult to articulate. The extensive range of leadership assessments also enables us to benchmark your level of leadership capability against other organisations.

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Commitment and ownership. We recognise the sensitivities associated with giving comprehensive feedback on strengths and development needs. Participants experiencing our process typically comment that they have been treated well and fairly and describe the feedback they have received as more in-depth and revealing than what they have received in the past. Our approach encourages ownership of results and buy-in to the feedback provided, and helps ensure that the organisation gains the return on its capability investment.