SW Councils can support individual and team development both through our training provision and through support from our experienced and qualified team in  delivering a number of tools which can help raise self-awareness at individual,  team and organisational level including:

GC Index:  South West Councils team, working with the GC Index® empowers organisations to drive performance and achieve innovation goals by transforming their approach to talent management.

SHL Occupational Personality Questionnaires (psychometric tests) :  A personality questionnaire looking at behavioural preferences which can provide organisations and individuals with a better understanding of their preferred way of working and identify how to develop new skills and enhance existing ones

SHL Scenarios:  Three versions of the test are available designed to assess judgement in Graduates, Managers or Senior Executives.  One of the most important challenges for any leadership team is ‘Do our managers  know how to manage?’  Answering this question is now easier than ever with the Scenarios  questionnaires. Scenarios measures an individual’s ability to weigh up real-life situations and decide on appropriate and effective ways of handling them.  Candidates are placed in a number of situations in which a selection of different options are suggested. Their responses are then compared with a set of ideal answers generated by experts – giving an assessment of their judgement.

Scenarios assesses a candidate’s overall level of Managerial Judgement, which is then broken down into three key components:
 

• Managing Objectives – making best use of energies, consultation, alignment with objectives, prioritisation
   
• People Management – managing a team, balancing people issues with motivation and performance, leading and encouraging
• Corporate or Reputation Management – Supporting, sustaining and being positive about the organisation, managing your manager, protecting the reputation of the organisation

360  Assessment: SW Councils has access to different 360 assessment tools which can help individuals by gaining feedback from colleagues which enables a well-grounded understanding of how they work, how their strengths are perceived and how they can develop.