People Manager Assessment Center

People manager assessment center

Research-backed and evidence-based manager assessment to hire, promote, and develop people managers

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    • Hiring High Performing People Managers
      Fairly and objectively assess internal and external managerial candidates for frontline and middle manager roles using and evidence-based and research-backed People Manager Assessment Center to accurately measure managerial performance and potential in a new role.

      Because managerial candidates must demonstrate their real-time management skills in a real-world scenario, the simulation combined with psychometric tests predicts people manager success better than any other applicant testing approach.
    • Developing High Performing People Managers
      Identify evidence-based competency gaps and deliver hyper-personalized individual development plans in the areas of communicating, focusing on the customer, delegating, listening, caring, developing and leading teams, mentoring, coaching, leading change, persuading and influencing, planning and organizing, problem solving, implementing strategies, and thinking strategically.

      The combination of psychometric tests (i.e., personality and learning) and detailed people manager competency insights that are customized to align with your unique core competencies, enables highly customized training, targeted learning nudges, and the tracking of micro-behavior improvement over time.

“LSA’s People Manager Assessment Center gave us the trusted insights and powerful analytics that we needed to invest in hiring, promoting, and developing our people with certainty. Having the data helped us to make the right talent decisions.”
Vice President | Fortune 500 Technology Company

People managers impact everything from profits to productivity, employee engagement, and customer loyalty. Unfortunately, 60% of new people managers underperform during their first two years, and 85% receive no training prior to switching into the role of manager. Good people managers are getting harder to find, develop, and retain.

The good news is that the significant people manager failure risks can be prevented with the help of a People Manager Assessment Center that uses proven technology and research-backed behavioral science for:

    • Hiring High Performing People Managers
      Fairly and objectively assess internal and external managerial candidates for frontline and middle manager roles using and evidence-based and research-backed People Manager Assessment Center to accurately measure managerial performance and potential in a new role.

      Because managerial candidates must demonstrate their real-time management skills in a real-world scenario, the simulation combined with psychometric tests predicts people manager success better than any other applicant testing approach.
    • Developing High Performing People Managers
      Identify evidence-based competency gaps and deliver hyper-personalized individual development plans in the areas of communicating, focusing on the customer, delegating, listening, caring, developing and leading teams, mentoring, coaching, leading change, persuading and influencing, planning and organizing, problem solving, implementing strategies, and thinking strategically.

      The combination of psychometric tests (i.e., personality and learning) and detailed people manager competency insights that are customized to align with your unique core competencies, enables highly customized training, targeted learning nudges, and the tracking of micro-behavior improvement over time.

  • Succession Planning for People Manager Roles
    When it comes to identifying and developing managerial bench strength, this People Manager Assessment Center helps to better identify high-potentials and measure successor readiness for people manager roles. The fair, objective, and evidence-based approach also removes unconscious bias and personal preference from the succession planning process.

    Monitor and compare people managers on readiness in the target role, competency performance, and potential to grow for optimal succession planning. Proactively track the readiness of successors and strategically plan for future talent needs.

People Manager Assessment Center with 0.54 Predictive Validity
The 3-hour “day-in-the-life” assessment places people managers in a relevant simulation of their future role to measure their readiness using live role-players for a realistic simulation experience. Customized capabilities are benchmarked against a global pool of people managers in similar roles to provide additional data points for comparison.

The People Manager Assessment is for frontline people managers who lead teams of individual contributors and middle managers/directors who manage other managers. For executive leaders, please visit leadership simulation assessments for high stakes roles.

Expected Results
On average, managers and directors who follow the assessment-driven development plans:

  • improve skills by 11% in twelve months
  • are 6 times more likely to be retained
  • are 6 times more likely to be seen as a high-performer
  • report a 14% increase in engagement

Having assessed over 10,000 people managers in over 40 countries around the world, the manager simulation assessment is available in Bahasa, Dutch, English, French, Korean, Slovak, Spanish, and Turkish. 

If you would like to use a proven People Manager Assessment Center to better identify, promote, and develop new managers, mid-level managers, and directors, please contact us.

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Gina Fulton
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LSA exceeded all my expectations.

We interviewed 7 potential training and consulting partners and selected LSA due to their expertise, flexibility, and breadth and depth of leadership solutions.

We were able to design a highly customized, focused, and relevant management training program that fit our unique needs.

Our leaders and managers galvanized as a team and are better prepared for the rigors of a leading their teams in a very competitive and fast-changing market.

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CEO

Edify

A key to performance improvement is cultivating the proper type of motivation.

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Learning & Development

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The customized Managing Virtual Teams program was extremely valuable for our managers and leaders.

LSA’s fundamental knowledge of our company provided an incredible base to build upon while tackling the complications of managing and working with globally distributed teams.

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LSA’s interactive program for our managers was top-notch. It was tailored to our needs, aligned with our policies, and met all federal and state legal requirements.

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We have been able to utilize LSA’s extensive expertise to leverage our investment in employee development.

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Vice President, Human Resources

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LSA delivered the exact top quality solution that we wanted. I’d recommend LSA Global to any company looking for a best-in-class management training and consulting partner that always focuses on what matters most to your people AND your business.

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HR Manager

I had been working with LSA for many years across a few different companies.

Currently, I’m with a company who hadn’t done much new manager training. LSA designed and delivered exactly what we needed at this stage in our life cycle.

Our managers are excited, talking in the halls about the great experience, and applying what they learned.

LSA makes things easy and practical for us.  Thank you!

Phyllis Moracco
HR Director

We have worked with LSA Global for our learning and development needs and have always had great success.

They helped us recently with targeted and customized Management Training Workshops to fit our unique situation, and they were fantastic.

I highly recommend LSA to anyone that is attempting to help take their leadership and management talent to the next level.

Mary Johnston
HR Manager, BU Radiology Informatics

LSA custom designed a key management development solution for our Client Partner Teams on both coasts that aligned with our business priorities and organizational culture.

I’d recommend LSA to any company looking for a first class training and consulting partner that truly makes a behavior and performance impact.

Laurie Torres
Chief People Officer

We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver a action leadership and management development curriculum to help drive performance across the company.

They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing an approach that fits our unique culture, and delivering first class solutions.  Thank you!

Sally Buchannan
VP Human Resources

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