The Project Manager Competency Assessment Program provides a multi-dimensional view of an individual's current project management knowledge, skills, and potential to effectively fill a project manager role. Armed with this diagnostic information, organizational leaders can determine which individual project managers have the highest potential to grow and excel. Project managers can then be assigned to the types of projects they are best suited to lead effectively.
The assessment results also help organizations target training only where deficiencies are recognized, thus eliminating unnecessary training programs and ensuring more productive results from their training investment. Individuals benefit from the personal feedback they receive on their current skills and attributes to make informed career and professional development decisions.
PM College has partnered with Caliper, one of the world's leading human resources assessment firms, to bring you this program.
The Project Manager Competency Assessment Program has three main components: a multi-level knowledge test, a personality and cognitive assessment, and a multi-rater survey reviewing the current performance of project managers.
Once the assessment results have been compiled, the organization will receive an hour of verbal feedback and an aggregate report detailing the competency levels of those that took the assessment including their strengths, knowledge gaps, and areas for improvement. Recommendations for taking the next steps and building a professional development program tailored to addressing the identified improvement areas of the group will also be provided.
Each individual who goes through the assessment program will receive a private, one-hour feedback session via phone with a certified PM College/Caliper development counselor to review the results of their Caliper profile and multi-rater evaluation. Overall results will be provided electronically as part of a personalized Individual Developmental Guide (IDG) that includes results of their Knowledge Assessment Profile, with particular emphasis on the knowledge areas that should be further studied to bolster their project management comprehension. The purpose of the IDG is to provide valuable insight on an individual's strengths and recommended areas for further professional development. Add-on services are also available. They include remediation plans for identified skill gaps; performance/profile correlation and industry benchmarking; and customized curriculum development and delivery for courses in project management and leadership.
To learn more about implementing a Project Manager Competency Assessment Program in your organization, contact PM College today at 1-888-619-2819 (toll free).