11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Guidance from an Employee Assessment Mechanic: Peeking under the hood on employee assessments
Registration: Register by noon, April 5, for a meal
Guest Speaker: Brandon Jordan, CEO/Founder, Workforce Lifecycle Analytics
Program Description: To choose the right car… talk to the service tech not the car sales person! Learn about the technical details on what to consider when choosing an employee assessment and assessment partner from a technical expert on employee assessments. Specifically we will cover…
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An overview of the employee assessment landscape
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Aligning your talent strategy and needs to the assessment type/methodology
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Scoring and item content considerations
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The science of employee assessment – Predicting important business outcomes using assessments.
Key Take Aways
Choosing an assessment:
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Ask the right questions
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Determine if it is a quality tool. Tech manual? IO psych on staff? How developed? What does it predict?
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Does the assessment (method) fit my purpose?
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What support does the provider provide?
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For behavioral/personality assessments careful not to use typology assessments for anything but development. Normative or (N)ipsative are better.
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The science of employee assessment – Using multiple methods aligned to your purpose yield the strongest outcomes.
Speaker Bio: Brandon is an organizational psychologist and scientist focused on the study of people, attitudes, emotions, and behavior in the workplace. As leader in talent management and organization development functions in practice, he is focused on using practical, applied research and analytics strategies to build data and evidence-based people practices, processes, and tools to strengthen organizations through their workforce.
Brandon’s deep areas of specialization and nearly 20 years of experience are primarily focused in employee assessment and employee engagement/experience measurement using psychometrics and people analytics methodology. His passion is to help businesses grow and develop through their people by helping employees 1) build their organization through hiring the right people, 2) the sustained development of the workforce, 3) and building better, high performing organizations through employee listening strategies. Brandon founded Workforce Lifecycle Analytics where he currently leads sales, analytics, and consulting and previously worked for Willis Towers Watson, IBM, Kenexa, and Batrus Hollweg International.
Brandon completed his graduate training at the University of Tulsa where he received his M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Texas. Brandon is also a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), DallasHR (Dallas SHRM Chapter), as well as an active researcher in the academic community participating in conferences and studies contributing to scientific research.
To Contact Brandon:
https://workforcelifecycle.com/
bjordan@workforcelifecycle.com