Development Assessments

Faster Development for Your Leaders

Are your leaders developing their capabilities as fast as you need them to? Are you targeting the most appropriate development assignments for them? Are you developing your leaders to meet future business challenges?

Whether you are focused on preparing high potentials for future roles, developing current executives to handle new business challenges, or building skills to improve performance in pivotal leadership roles—your organization will have a competitive advantage if you can build the right capabilities in your leaders fast.

PDI Development Assessments are Customized to Your Leaders

Each assessment is customized to meet your needs. Throughout the process participants receive feedback from senior coaches on their performance, along with real-time coaching on how they can more effectively handle the new job challenges they’ll be facing.

PDI's Development Assessments are designed to:

• Be an engaging and powerful developmental experience. 
• Provide individuals with maximum insight, motivation to develop, and action planning. 
• Blend psychometric evaluations of the participant’s personality, style, goals, experiences, and competencies; the assessor’s understanding of the person’s background and career history; and the assessor’s behavioral observations of what participants actually do and how they do it. 
• Offer the most valid “whole person” assessment of strengths and development needs. 
• Focus on the full development value chain, the necessary and sufficient conditions for development and how to build these into the overall process. 

You'll learn:

• Current skills participants can build on or leverage in their existing role and/or at the next level. 
• The career path that will best meet both the participant’s and the organization’s needs. 
• Development needs for the entire talent pool that can help target group-wide development initiatives. 
• Which activities and support will help participants focus and accelerate development. 

Participants experience: 

• Full support. PDI focuses on the entire development value chain: starting before the assessment with appropriate communications and positioning regarding purpose, objectives, and how to best prepare; continuing through the on-site assessment process to incorporate learning; and having appropriate follow-up to ensure development progress 
• Same-day results. Participants receive in-depth feedback and coaching before they leave PDI—personalized to individual career goals and relevant business challenges. It often includes a draft development plan. 
• Positive development experience. Assessments focus on leveraging strengths and taking them to the next level, not just weaknesses. 
• Long-term impact. PDI focuses on incorporating the necessary and sufficient conditions needed for development, including making sure there is a follow-up plan that connects participants to their manager and HR to assure positive ROI. 

Focused development. Faster results. Greater market impact.