Project Management Fundamentals
"Provided many "thinking points" to take back!"

Increasingly, organizations need to measure the skill level of employees to determine and plan the appropriate skill development path for them and other purposes, such as selecting employees for projects. Watermark's SkillAssess™ services are designed to meet those needs.

• Formal standard assessments that can be customized to your organization's knowledge pool.
• Custom formal assessments that can be developed exactly to your organizations needs.
• Informal assessments to determine skill-based or subjective knowledge difficult to measure in writing.

• Quickly assess a group's skills, whether small or large.
• Save time and money by tailoring a skill development plan to best fit group and individual needs.
• Discover unknown skill gaps and skill competencies.
• Cost-effective. Unlike pre-canned assessment tests, our assessments can be easily and inexpensively tailored to fit your organization. Don't spend time measuring knowledge and skills not applicable.

• Formal assessments are delivered via a web interface for access anywhere a web browser is available.
• Questions and answers are stored in a database for easy modification and review.
• Answers can be weighted to give partial credit for partially correct answers.
• Questions can be grouped by applicable subject area. For example, in our project management assessment, we have categories for PMI performance domains as well as knowledge areas.
• Reporting of results can be done by complete score and by sub-area.

• Improve the ROI of your training investment.
  Our SkillAssess™ skill and knowledge assessments provide quick, accurate, and objective assessments of skills of staff members. You will receive both individual and aggregate results to pinpoint skill gaps that training, mentoring, coaching and other activities could address.
  
  By employing the feedback you can tailor the training activities of individuals, departments and entire organizations to maximize investment of your training dollars. Don't invest in unneeded training when you can quickly and easily learn which areas are really needed.
  
• Provide valuable feedback for coaching and personal development
  Individuals and managers can use our assessments to obtain immediate, objective feedback about knowledge and skill gaps. Individuals learn specific areas on which to concentrate their development and receive a personalized development plan. Managers benefit from concrete, verifiable data for use in approving development plans, and to help guide coaching efforts.
  
  Useful as an additional Human Resources instrument.
  Various aspects of our assessments could be used to help decide on promotions and pay increases. The 360 components could be directly linked to performance criteria and help initiate, automate or extend the 360 review process.
  
  Create an internal certification process to promote best practices.
  Many organizations are contemplating or implementing an internal project management and/or leadership certification. Our assessments are a perfect aid, since they are objective and customizable. Tailor the assessments to your organization's needs and promote the certification process to reinforce best practices.