Saville Consulting Wave Focus,Saville Wave

For clients wishing to save assessment time, a short version of the Saville Consulting Wave questionnaire is available. Saville Consulting Wave® Focus Styles also measures motives, talents, preferred culture and competency potential in one dynamic online questionnaire. This short, 13 minute questionnaire very powerfully provides 80% of the validity of Wave Professional Styles.

The Saville Consulting Focus Styles development programme selected the most important facets from Wave Professional Styles based on their measurement of work competencies and overall measures of performance and potential.

In the recent 2008 co-validation study, Wave Focus demonstrated the highest validity per minute of all the questionnaires included. It offers remarkable “horsepower” and slots very easily into tightly scheduled assessment and development events.

It is frequently used at the front end of selection schedules and to drive team building workshops and management development events.

For increased security, the questionnaire is available to be sent out across the internet in Invited Access format, but also provides the reassurance of a separate Supervised Access format which is completed in the presence of a Test administrator.

Online Psychometric Testing

Saville Consulting Wave® is a completely integrated suite of assessment questionnaires, offering sophisticated individual and corporate diagnostics.

The Saville Consulting Wave suite is built around one powerful model and identifies "best fit" environments based on a comprehensive understanding of personal motives, talents and preferred culture. The positive interaction and alignment of these three crucial areas is a fundamental factor in achieving competitive advantage.

Saville Consulting Wave provides measures which efficiently assess individual motives, talents and workplace culture in a single questionnaire.

The longer version of the Saville Wave test, "Saville Consulting Wave® Professional Styles" is designed for use with experienced managers, directors and professionals on either an individual or group basis.

This questionnaire measures motivation, talent and preferred culture. It adds value to both recruitment and development, transforming the quality of the assessment process with the sophisticated use of technology and powerful models of effectiveness in the workplace.

This version of Saville Consulting Wave produces profiles that combine both ipsative and normative scores, across 36 dimensions, in a recommended administration time of approximately 40 minutes.

12 Sections and 36 facets of Behavioural Style most related to Occupational Success
Revolutionary Dynamic Online Format
Measures both Motive and Talent
Predicts Culture Fit of the Individual
Measures Potential for the 12 Key Job Competencies

Saville Wave Questionnaire

There are currently two internet alternatives for Saville Consulting Wave Professional Styles:
Online, invited access, which can be used unsupervised.
Online, supervised access which is also available in hard copy.
The supervised version can be compared to results from "invited access" and unsupervised administrations as appropriate.

In a 2008 co-validation study, Wave Professional Styles, outperformed the OPQ32i™, NEO-PI-R™, Hogan Personality Inventory™ and 16PF5™ and 15FQ+™ on both work competencies and overall global measures of performance.

For users, this higher validity enables:

better predictions of performance
a stronger return on investment
accurate identification and management of talent
highly targeted coaching
the development of a performance culture throughout an organization

Measures 36 facets of Behavioural Style related to Occupational Success. The Saville Consulting Wave Focus Styles Model is presented below. The model is based on predicting a hierarchical model of work performance.

		Information Analysis
		Written Communication	Evaluative
		Data Oriented
		Open to Learning
		Quick Learning	Investigative
		Continuous Improvement Seeking
		Creative
		Conceptual	Imaginative
		Strategic

		Lively
		Rapport Creation	Sociable
		Attention Seeking
		Persuasive
		Presentation Oriented	Impactful
		Prepared to Disagree
		Responsibility Seeking
		Leadership Oriented	Assertive
		Motivating People

		Self-confident
		Relaxed at Events	Resilient
		Handling Upset People
		Optimistic
		Accepting Change	Flexible
		Responsive to Feedback
		Empathic
		Team Oriented	Supportive
		Considerate

		Deadline Focused
		Detail Focused	Conscientious
		Rule Focused
		Methodical
		Planning	Structured
		Quick Working
		Action Oriented
		Business Opportunity Oriented	Driven
		Results Oriented

Note that each scale's meaning is explained in detail in the technical manual.

The Saville Consulting Wave report options include:

Expert Report

Personal Report

Types Report

Entrepreneurial Report

Line Manager Report

Competency Potential Report

Predicted Culture-Environment fit Report

In addition, the reports can be based on 360 Appraisal sessions using the Saville Consulting Oasys System and integrated with Job Analysis and Aptitude data.

Features	Benefits
Advanced scoring technology.	Shorter assessment times, greater accuracy and finely tuned measurement.
Dimensions selected for the best workplace validity from research on extensive groups of working people.	Enhanced measurement of job performance enabling more precise and confident decision making.
New dimensions maximising the prediction of work competencies	Relevant to a wider range of roles and sectors.
Configurable, "Colossus" is a Saville Consulting bank of over 5000 items.	Tailored versions are available, developed around in-house competency frameworks and language.
Dual response style, both ipsative and normative	Ability to hone in on specific scales where a candidate may have exaggerated or been overly self-critical.
Multi-lingual versions.	Global assessment in local language.
Predictions of cultural enhancers and inhibitors.	Cost effective, well matched selection with higher retention rates.
Exploration of the complex interaction between talents and motives.	Identifies unfulfilled motives and latent talents. This adds insight to feedback and development planning.
Dynamic question format.	Hones in on the fine distinctions and subtleties of each individual.
Measures 36 dimensions with each dimension comprising three sub aspects.	Comprehensive, offering the flexibility to work at summary level or to drill down and explore specific areas.
Separate versions for professionals and other staff.	Greater acceptability and relevance at senior levels.
One assessment model.	Offers the capacity to link people and their workplace culture, with the confidence of supporting validation.
Two on-line versions are available: invited access and supervised access. A hard copy supervised version is also available.	Flexible and unsupervised administration for screening / development but with the backup of secure versions at the final selection stage.
No Licence fees.	Pay as you go with lower annual costs.