ABSTRACT

This chapter describes two techniques to assess how candidates will perform as team players by role-playing real life situations. There are many aspects of good interviewing techniques that are targeted at individual assessment. The two techniques are Assessing shared leadership skills – using a combination of small group interaction, formal presentation and reflection on performance to gain multiple insights into the flexibility and breadth of someone's skills, In-tray tests – observing candidates doing the tasks they will do in the real job. Assessing shared leadership skills is a technique that helps to identify people with the potential to be members of leadership teams. It looks not for one personality type, but for the skills of adapting to new people and contexts, able to listen, appreciate and reflect. In-tray tests are an attempt to put candidates into the situation they are likely to be in, if they were to be appointed.