Assessment services

"I am interested in assessing aptitude, personality & skills for L&D roles."

The right skills, aptitudes and attitudes are essential when selecting for L&D roles.  Skills and aptitudes are closely related but distinct and should not be confused. Skills are a backward-looking description of what a person has learned to do in the past. Aptitudes are forward-looking and describe what a person has the ability to do in the future - what they can learn to do. 

Individuals who possess good interpersonal skills (eg. listening, conveying verbal and non-verbal communication well, giving and receiving feedback, communicating with diverse others and overcoming barriers to communication) are more likely to have a greater aptitude to facilitate other’s learning. 

Skills and aptitude: The Training Foundation’s assessment service assesses both the trainer’s skills (eg, the logical flow and content of a training event) and also the trainer’s style which includes their interpersonal skills.

Attitudes:  We use the DISC profiling instrument as an important part of our own trainer recruitment and selection process and also for assisting our clients with their L&D recruitment.  From analysis and experience we have identified a distinctive psychological profile common to excellent trainers and which provides an effective matching capability for selection purposes.