A Colorado Consortium
Excellent Speakers and Audience Participation Highlight 5th Annual LEC
Stephany Schings, Communications Specialist
This year’s Leading Edge Consortium (LEC) included numerous opportunities for attendees to participate in the discussion of the leading edge of selection and assessment.
SIOP’s 5th annual consortium, “Leading Edge of Selection and Assessment in a Global Setting,” took place at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center. LEC Chair Lois Tetrick and Co-chairs Ann Marie Ryan and Tanya Delany led the consortium and encouraged attendees to continue to network and interact even after the event ended.
Attendees were welcomed Thursday night with a reception in the Hyatt’s 12th floor Centennial Room, which offered beautiful views of downtown Denver as well as the Rocky Mountains.
Friday and Saturday were punctuated with two keynote speakers, Cisco’s Kristie Wright as opening keynote on Friday and Google’s Todd Carlisle as closing keynote on Saturday. Wright discussed Cisco’s use of a blend of traditional I-O and clinical methodologies to most effectively assess executive capabilities in an increasingly complex environment. Carlisle closed the consortium with a discussion of microtrends in global staffing, data trends Google uses to find and capture the best and brightest applicants for their global staffing efforts.
Other speakers included:
- Dave Bartram, SHL, Tanya Delany, IBM, and Nancy Tippins, Valtera, who discussed “The Changing Face of Assessment”
- Matt Barney, Infosys, Eric Braverman, Merck, and Karen B. Paul, 3M, who presented “Showcase of Successful Global Selection Systems”
- Doug Reynolds, DDI, who spoke on privacy
- Kerry Olin, Microsoft, Adam Malamut, Marriott, and Joe Colihan, IBM, who gave the presentation “Cross Border Hiring”
- Robert Gibby, Procter & Gamble, Mike Fetzer, PreVisor, Rod McCloy, HumRRO, who made up a panel to discuss “Computerized Adaptive Testing”
- Scott Erker, DDI, and Matt Redmond, Redmond Leadership Consulting, who presented “Interviewing Across Cultures”
The interactive “Nuts and Bolts” sessions offered attendees a chance to discuss specific topics within small group, and the first ever Learning Lab was a hit, offering attendees a chance to view demos of actual selection and assessments systems that have been implemented internationally by Hogan Assessment Systems, Sandra Hartog & Associates/Fenestra, and SHL.
Next year’s Leading Edge Consortium, “Developing and Enhancing High-Performance Teams,” which will take place October 22–23 in Tampa, FL, will be chaired by Past President Gary Latham. SIOP members Deb Cohen and Scott Tannenbaum will serve as co-chairs of the 6th annual consortium. Among the presenters will be SIOP President-Elect Eduardo Salas, Richard Hackman (Harvard University), and Michael Beer (chairman of TruePoint, a consulting firm in Boston).
Latham urges people to register early, as he has set a specific high goal of 250 or more attendees at next year’s consortium. The current SIOP record is 229 attendees, set at the Charlotte, NC consortium in 2006.
Keep reading for photos of this year’s consortium.
You can also pre-order the LEC 2009 DVD on the SIOP bookstore. |
| SIOP President Kurt Kraiger presents an Innovative Practice Award Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association (APA) to SIOP Member Cristina Banks before Saturday morning's program. Banks received the award earlier this year for her work on classifying employees as exempt and nonexempt but was unable to accept the award when it was presented. |
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| Colorado’s Rocky Mountains offered a beautiful backdrop to Thursday night’s Welcome Reception. |
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| LEC Chair Lois Tetrick thanks Practice Chair Tanya Delany (right) and Science Chair Ann Marie Ryan (center) for all of their efforts in helping to plan the consortium. |
Opening keynote speaker Kristie Wright discusses the cross-disciplinary practices Cisco has used in its global selection and assessment systems. |
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Attendees participate in a small group discussion during the Reflection Discussion on Global Assessment Trends session.
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Attendees participate in an interactive session using the i<clickers audience response system.
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Attendees gather to see how an actual global selection and assessment system worked for Sandra Hartog & Associates/Fenestra. This was part of the Learning Lab, a new session to the LEC that provided participants with a hands-on chance to experience the tools and innovations that other attendees have developed and successfully implemented.
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| Closing keynote speaker Todd Carlisle discusses his experiences studying microtrends in selection and assessment on the People Analytics Team at Google. |
Attendees list examples of results of tests administered across different cultures. |
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| Doug Reynolds reads wording from privacy laws from around the world during “Data Privacy,” his presentation on the often overlooked step in the design of global assessments: the transfer of data across borders. |
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