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Developing selection criteria, specifying the ideal candidate
Written by John Berry & Sue Berry on 26th May 2019. Revised 1st November 2020.
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• Illustrating how to define people in terms that can be assessed and tested during selection;
• Describing what’s meant by general mental ability, personality and person-environment fit;
• Telling how the various characteristics impact on job performance;
• Showing how job descriptions can be analysed to give the necessary competencies and behaviours; and
• Discussing how managers typically make decisions during selection and how this should be done.
Setting foundations designing the right jobs
Written by John Berry on 26th May 2019. Revised 1st November 2020.
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• Showing how to model a firm to capture all the necessary functions to be done;
• Showing how functions can be aggregated to form various different jobs;
• Teaching how to design jobs for maximum motivational effect;
• Identifying the purpose and primary responsibilities and accountabilities in each job; and
• Beginning to determine the characteristics of the people who will excel in those jobs as preparation for Webinar 3.
A new approach for recruitment & selection age
Written by John Berry on 26th May 2019. Revised 1st November 2020.
1 min read
• Reviewing the current approach to recruitment and selection;
• Identifying exactly where and how this old approach is broken;
• Underpinning the new approach, starting with job purpose;
• Building the new approach as a process from job to jobholder; and
• Illustrating the elements of the process, setting the scene for other webinars.
Planning & implementing organisational up skilling
Written by John Berry on 26th May 2019. Revised 1st November 2020.
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This webinar/video is about how a manager might go about developing everyone in his or her organisation together. It starts by suggesting that such pan-organisation development depends on the use of a statement of what's to be done - the competency framework. And will illustrate an example of a framework for a 50-person organisation.
Understanding what makes people developable
Written by John Berry on 28th May 2019. Revised 1st November 2020.
1 min read
- Translating job description accountabilities to personal characteristics
- Determining the changes in competencies and behaviours needed
- Identifying critical development to yield required future performance
- Discussing why some people are developable (and others not)
Making the business case for investment in people
Written by Sue Berry on 28th May 2019. Revised 1st November 2020.
1 min read
- Interdependency of technology and people
- Strategies supporting investment in technology over people
- Key drivers in favour of developing people
- Consequences of not developing staff and alternative strategies
