Censeo periodically conducts Webinars to share best practices on a variety of assessment related topics. These Webinars are free, and usually last about one hour.

Over the years, Censeo’s webinars have earned a reputation for quality. Rather than a sales forum, we truly focus on adding value by providing new ideas and/or materials that help to ensure the success of your next assessment initiative.

Upcoming Webinars

“Tips to Help You Facilitate an Effective 360 Degree Feedback Discussion”

Censeo Co-founder Jim Higgins and I-O Psychologist Dr. Michael Zia Mian discuss several best practices to help you (or others on your team) facilitate more effective 360 feedback discussions, including:

• The timing for distributing feedback reports to participants
• Whether the session should be handled in an individual or group setting
• Setting the tone and objectives for the session
• Helping participants “cut through” the data and promoting constructive dialog
• How to deal with the tough case scenarios

Attendees receive the session materials as well as a white paper to help you increase the quality of your feedback sessions.

Thursday, September 16th, 2PM Eastern: Register Here

“360 Degree Feedback 101: The 10 Fundamentals of a Successful 360 Process”

If you’re considering the use of 360 degree feedback for the first time, you’re new to managing a 360 survey process, or you’re just looking for a refresher on the basics, this session is for you!

Censeo Industrial-Organizational Psychologists Dr. Michael Zia Mian and Jim Higgins help you gain a solid foundation for implementing a successful 360-degree feedback process. The session addresses the following questions:

• What is 360 degree feedback, and why is it used?
• Confidentiality: Why is it so important and how do you protect it?
• How do I communicate an upcoming survey?
• What should my company measure in a 360 survey?
• How do I encourage accurate ratings and increasing response rates?
• What’s important when it comes to reporting results to my leaders?
• How do I deliver feedback in a way that promotes action?

Attendees receive the session materials as well as a white paper to help ensure the success of any 360 campaign.

Thursday, November 11th, 2PM Eastern: Register Here

“A Real-World Approach to Measuring Leadership Talent: A guided tour of the award-winning TalentSIM Simulation”

Looking to add more interactivity and objectivity to your management selection or development processes? Interested in seeing what the cutting edge of managerial assessments looks like?

If so, you’ll want to register for this webinar.

During this 1-hour session, Censeo will lead you on a quick-paced guided tour of the TalentSIM Leadership Simulation, an HR Executive Magazine Product of the Year.  The facilitators will provide an overview of the assessment, allow you to observe several sample situations, and share details about the Simulation’s administrative and reporting features.

Case studies will also be presented that illustrate how TalentSIM is currently being used to challenge potential and existing leaders, add objectivity to the leadership assessment process, and provide personalized, actionable feedback to help managers improve their skills. All attendees will receive a highly-researched “leadership profile” on which TalentSIM is based, as well as password-protected access to review the simulation in more detail.

Thursday, October 14th, 2PM Eastern: Register Here

“Making Employee Surveys Successful: Using Surveys to Increase Organizational Effectiveness and Employee Engagement”

Oftentimes employee survey initiatives aren’t nearly as successful as they might be – opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness are overlooked in many areas, and the degree of employee engagement doesn’t really change much.  Join us for an upcoming 1-hour webinar to learn how to avoid 9 common pitfalls, and make your next survey initiative more successful.
Dr. Ronald Gross, Censeo’s CEO, and Dr. Michael Zia Mian, Director of Consulting Services, will share best practices in several critical areas:

• Linking the survey initiative to key business strategies and priorities.
• Identifying the most important drivers of employee engagement.
• Using the survey process itself to increase engagement through communications, feedback, and involvement in action planning.
• Increasing the response rate.
• Giving managers specific suggestions on actions they can take to make improvements, developing their skills, and getting them to follow through.
• Designing survey reports that are easy to understand by line managers and HR professionals, that highlight the most critical issues, and that lead people from data to real insight.
• Avoiding unnecessary complexity, and keeping the whole survey initiative streamlined and on target.

Attendees will receive session materials and a large item pool that can be used as a starting point in developing your next survey.

Thursday, August 12th, 2PM Eastern: Register Here

“Using Assessments to Build Your Leadership Talent Pool”

The recent recession, and the greatly diminished value of retirement accounts and homes, may have slowed the pace at which baby boomers will retire, but make no mistake – many companies will face a critical shortage of skilled leaders at some point in the future.  If your company is one of them, or if you just want to learn more about the topic, join us for an upcoming 1-hour webinar on how assessments can be used to build the talent pool of leaders.
Dr. Ronald Gross, Censeo’s CEO, and Dr. Michael Zia Mian, Director of Consulting Services, will address these important areas:

• An overview of different types of assessments – ranging from simple, structured self-report surveys to comprehensive, live assessment centers – and how they are used in organizations.
• How valid assessment data can strengthen many HR systems, including selection, individual development planning, performance management, training programs, and succession planning.
• Best practices and leading edge advances in the assessment field.
• Leveraging technology, and how to “get the most bang for your buck.”
• How world class companies are not just assessing leaders’ competencies and skills, but are expanding the view to include the context in which leaders perform.
• Integrating different sources of assessment information, and making sound tactical and strategic decisions.

Attendees will receive session materials and a whitepaper on the value of assessments in selection and development systems.

Thursday, July 8th, 2PM Eastern: Register Here

Thursday, December 9th, 2PM Eastern: Register Here