Preparing For Promotion: A Guide for Public
Safety Assessment Centers
Preparing Tomorrow's Leaders
Today!
You may be also able to obtain copies through:
KSA Ltd. recommends you READ ANY article, book or information on Assessment
Centers, whether it's ours or another book.
If you don't have the skill sets to do the job, the temperament, leadership
skills, organizational skills, supervisory skills, and so on, you're simply not
ready to take on that new role yet!
Better to wait and build up your strengths first! Are you attending supervisory
or management courses? Working on your degree?
Practicing your supervisory, organizational or
administrative skills?
The more you know about the process and what to expect, the more likely you are
to be more prepared for the job!
You cannot read any book and simply expect to "dazzle" assessors.
They will see your "real" readiness levels, so don't assume you can merely "wing
it!" and succeed!
NEW 2012 Edition! by
Rick Michelson & Pat Maher
Includes new material on leadership development ,
succession planning and job dimensions, complete
with KSA worksheets!
This
book is full of helpful topics to get you focused before
you take that next promotional exam, including
assessment centers or related performance based
scenarios. It also has a chapter just on Interview
Panels, with many sample scenarios for practice!
Each component of the Assessment
Center process is covered in detail, along with a list
of behavioral dimensions that the candidate who is ready
for the job, should be able to demonstrate. Note that
while the book and our materials are geared to help you
get ready for any type of assessment process, the core
of our program and the text, is to help you get ready
for the job itself. If you have done all you can by
strengthening your skills to become a strong supervisor,
you still have to consider the political and even
personal issues that undoubtedly will surface. Keep in
mind building relationships is a critical component of
any good supervisor or manager.
The text and
workshops, include content, strategies and methodology
used in many of the core exercises used in Assessment
Centers including:
Assessment Centers;
History, development and validity
Subordinate
Counseling Role Play
Personnel scenarios
In-Basket
Oral Presentation
Leaderless Groups
Meeting Management
Ethical dilemmas
Situational Judgment
Tests
Written projects
Community
presentation
The book (and courses) also
cover non-assessment center methods, such as:
Oral Panel Interviews
Personnel Scenarios
Tactical / Operational
Scenarios
Accomplishment Survey
Rick,
I have successful y promoted through the
assessment center process. Although I
was not able to attend your class,
I did purchase the book which helped me
in the last assessment. I will be
forwarding this information to some of
the folks
just starting the process. Hopefully
they will take full advantage of your
class.
Robby Storton
Lieutenant
San Diego Sheriff's Department
12/27/11
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Reviews about the text - From
Amazon.com
Using poker as analogy for
leadership, Captain Andrew
Harvey, CPD (ret.), Ed.D. and
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster,
LAPD (ret.), MPA found the right
mix of practical experience and
academic credentials to write a
definitive book for leaders.
Working together, Harvey and
Foster have written
Leadership: Texas Hold em Style.
Most often leaders find they are
given a set of resources people,
equipment, funds, experience and
a mission. As Foster noted, You
are dealt a certain hand. How
you play that hand as a leader
determines your success.
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PAINLESS PERFORMANCE
EVALUATIONS!
The
Management Education Group is a great
resource for the serious supervisor or
manager!
See their
site for details on training workshops and
consulting.
This great book
includes everything you need to know about preparing for
the evaluation, documentation and the actual face to
face discussion with the "subordinate."
This
book will give you the tools
you need as a supervisor or manager, to:
Set clear and motivating expectations for employee
performance
Easily document examples of performance on a regular
basis
Conduct regular conversations with employees to
guide their performance
Write a performance evaluation document with ease
Lead an employee-driven discussion with an employee,
focusing on the annual performance review.
This book
brings
a practical, step-by-step approach to managing employee
performance by providing models for setting clear
performance expectations and for conducting
performance-related discussions.
The
approaches offered by Green are widely used in organizations of all
sizes to guide managers and supervisors through the performance
management process.
This guide emphasizes
that a painless performance evaluation is one that includes no
surprises, is future-focused, and is employee-driven.
The book includes a
collection of ideas that can be used by supervisors at every level in
any organization including checklists, discussion formats, and sample
wording.
Through training and facilitation,
the Management Education Group helps
your leaders clarify and communicate
your organization's vision and
improve employee confidence levels.
Things you never
thought of, February 24,
2006
