Benefits for clients
What does the Evaluation offer to Corporate Customers?
In developing an effective Project & Programme Management or Change Delivery organisation it’s important to understand the skills & capabilities of your Project Professionals.
Although you might understand your own people quite well it’s important to get an objective assessment of their skills & capabilities against a professional standard. This enables you to benchmark your teams against those working in other organisations. It’s also important that you review their skills against the whole range of competencies that are critical for effective project or change delivery.
The Programme Recruitment Project Management Evaluation is a cost-effective way to assess your teams against a common & respected standard developed by the Association for Project Management. This standard is embodied in the APM Body of Knowledge – 5th Edition and APM Competence Framework. Information on both of these frameworks can be downloaded from the APM website by clicking this link – APM Standards & Frameworks.
Typical services we can provide to our clients are:
- Individual or group assessments quickly with immediate presentation of results
- Capability planning & recommendations for further training or skills development for individuals or group
- Assessment of current project management training or development effectiveness
- Assessment of prospective recruits against job profiles – Programme Manager, Project Manager or Senior Project Manager competencies
The benefits to our clients have gained include:
- Objective and consistent approach to benchmarking project management knowledge & capabilities that means that line management time can be used on planning development rather than trying to assess individual needs & requirements
- Very cost effective evaluation with immediate feedback on knowledge against the APM Body of Knowledge at both the individual, departmental or corporate level
- Ability to benchmark new recruits against current teams reducing the number of interviews or time taken to complete them by Senior Managers
- Targeting of training spend against specific weak areas or those that are considered important for your environment. A far better approach than “sheep dipping” everyone through the same events
- Quick turnaround of information that is needed to create effective personal development programmes for project professionals and covers both knowledge and process skills
- Help & support from capability consultants who have provided professional evaluation services for a wide range of industries & business environments