ARCBLUE SERVICES
Skills Assessments
Measure and track your knowledge with ArcBlue Skills Assessments
You can’t improve what you don’t measure.
Our Skills Assessments identify strengths and opportunities of teams and individuals. Organisations use them to determine the teams’ baseline of knowledge against an expected level of competence or target score, providing a gap analysis. The findings are then used to inform capability development initiatives following the 70:20:10 method of learning.
We have assessments designed specifically for procurement, contract management & supplier relationship management, and it can be tailored to any environment or sector. Using our Skills Assessments, we can benchmark capability across your location and sector.
Beginning any learning program with a skills assessment is an essential first step to inform learning and development initiatives.
Assessment Outputs:
- The Group Report gives an overall view of your team’s baseline of knowledge
- Interactive Dashboards display the group findings, allowing you to filter based on team, function or role levels
- Individual reports give team members their results and recommendations for growth.
Add more depth to your results with semi-structured interviews
We recommend including semi-structured interviews as part of the assessment process. Interviews between our consultants and a selection of your team add more depth to the findings, identify key topic ‘champions’ who may become mentors, to augment the online results and find out how the competency is applied in a day to day sense.
We ask a range of questions which are designed to ‘deep dive’ into their knowledge on a particular competency which may help to uncover learning trends in your organisation e.g. A person may score very well on negotiation, but not have the opportunity to apply their knowledge in practice.
The findings of the interviews are included in a report and are taken into account in your Capability Development Roadmap.
How it works
- Assess individuals and teams against a range of procurement competencies
- Get a comparison by sector, region, function and experience
- The survey comprises of multiple-choice questions and is conducted online
- Provides individual, team and group reporting
- Online Dashboards enable results to be filtered and analysed
- Include semi-structured interviews to augment the survey results (optional)
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Initiation & Communication
We work with you to establish objectives, the target scores, and agree a communications plan
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Assessments Completed
The online assessment is released to your team. We monitor the process and issue reminders where needed.
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Reports & Learning Plans
Workshops are held to discuss the results and reports with Learning Plans are presented.
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Learning Programs Initiated
A structured learning program is completed to build skills, confidence and competence.
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Track & Reassess
On-the-job progress is tracked by Managers and the assessment is repeated after 12 months to view progress & plan for new learning.
Our Skills Assessments measure against the ArcBlue Competency Framework
The competency framework has been developed and refined to capture the technical and soft skills required for effective procurement and contract management.
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