Assessment Centres: 2020 - Gearing for the Future
AC ACADEMY TRAINING WORKSHOPS ON 9 & 10 MARCH 2020
Christine de Wet presented “Module 1: Introduction to Behaviour Observation during an Assessment Centre (Observer 101)"
Sandra Schlebusch presented “Module 2: The Design and Development of an Assessment Centre (Designing Centres 101)"
Lydia Cillié-Schmidt presented “Module 3: Designing Simulations (Designing Simulations 101)"
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - WEDNESDAY, 11 MARCH 2020
Workshop presentations are available upon request (from info@acsg.co.za) by delegates that attended the specific workshop(s)
Petrus Nel - Introduction to Assessment Centres
Nathan Kuncel – Improving Decision Making with Decision Aids and Improved Research Communication
Lydia Cillié-Schmidt – Designing and Developing Task-based Assessment Centres
Petrus Nel - Introduction to Development Centres
Paul Vorster – Making Ethical Decisions: Ethics Frameworks and Social Forces
Jennie Browning - Competency Profiling Workshop
CONFERENCE - THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2020
Jaco de Jager (Chairman: ACSG)
International Keynote Address
Nathan Kuncel – Predictors and process in selection decision making
Plenary Sessions
- Ignite – Facets of Leadership: 2020+
- Terry Meyer – Beyond Leadership Competence: Some Leadership Success Factors
- Cynthia Schoeman – Workplace Ethics 2020+
- Rudashni Peters – Leadership 2020
- John Raddall – Code 15: The evolutionary algorithm that powers leaders, teams and organisations
- Gaylin Jee – In search of perfection
- Sandra Schlebusch – Facets of Leadership: 2020+
- ACs and ACSG – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: ACSG Celebrating 40 Years
- Insight Online – Virtual Reality Tournament: Game of Heroes
Open Space Sessions
Martin Lanik – How assessment centres can help organisations prepare for and execute on digital transformation strategy. Download Pinsight's research study here.
Pieter Bronkhorst – What predicts leadership potential best - assessment centres, cognitive tests or personality tests
Lydia Cillié-Schmidt – Introducing employee experience concepts to assessment centres
David Slivinski – Where’s the fire? Assessment centre application in the American fire service
Anna Baczyńska – Personality and competencies across age
Clayton Donnelly – Getting digital: Combining video interview and assessments as a solution for online assessment centres
Kevin Distiller – The use of algorithms in assessment centres – for better or worse?
Kim Dowdeswell & Sebastian Clifton – Predicting in-tray performance: The effect of cognitive ability vs. personality
Vina Pendit – Virtual vs traditional ACs: A view from participants’ perspective
CONFERENCE – FRIDAY, 13 MARCH 2020
Local Keynote Address
Thokozile Lewanika Mpupuni – Inspiring possibilities and critical dilemmas for learning in a 4IR Africa
Plenary Sessions
Dirk Geldenjuys – Is it for real? A neuroscientific perspective on virtual reality
Sonette Lancaster – Assessment Centres and the South African Law
Deon Rossouw – Cultivating ethical culture in organisations
Open Space Sessions
David Bischof – Technological advances in assessments & the changing role of assessment practitioners
Mia Bunn – The game of developing successors: a case study
Maharani Kertapati – The changing nature of leadership over time
Hendrik Bronkhorst – Do assessment centres really work in selecting the high potential applicant or are we wasting our time? Empirical research showing the effect the algorithms and assessment type have on the return on investment of assessments
Marita Becker, Gerda van der Merwe & Sabrina Dixon – The enhancement of key leadership competencies of middle managers of a public enterprise
Pieter Bronkhorst, Martin Lanik & Sandra Schlebusch – Reflection on the 2019 International Congress on Assessment Centre Methods
