Identifying leaders – developing management: Assessment Center for Executives & Management Audits
Are you facing important staffing decisions or looking to strategically develop your existing management team? With tailored management audits, professional assessment centers, and a thorough potential analysis for executives, you can secure sound decisions, reduce hiring mistakes, and ensure individual skills development.
The demands on leadership are increasing: digital transformation, hybrid collaboration, sustainability, and skills shortages require more than just expertise. What's needed are reflective, learning-oriented individuals with a clear leadership role, strong communication skills, and inner stability. This is precisely where INFO GmbH's diagnostic methods come in – scientifically sound, field-tested, and consistently aligned with your goals.
At Selection process for managers as well as the Staffing For key positions, it is crucial to reliably assess not only professional qualifications but also personality, social, interpersonal, and methodological skills, as well as cultural fit. INFO GmbH supports numerous companies in this area. Private sector as well as cities, municipalities and other authorities in the selection and development of managers.
Do you want to fill leadership and management positions correctly or develop your leadership team in a targeted manner?
Assessment Center for ExecutivesIndividual potential analysis for your managers
Our Assessment Center for Executives We combine structured observation with realistic tasks such as presentations, case studies, role-playing, and competency-based, multimodal interviews. This allows you to experience leadership behavior under pressure, in conflict situations, and during times of change through concrete action.
The Potential analysis for managers It is precisely tailored to your company: We work with your competency models, consider culture, strategy and target positions, and define clear behavioral anchors. This makes assessments transparent, comparable and fair – for HR, specialist departments, committees, works councils and candidates.
Especially in sensitive cases Recruitment procedures and transparent recruitment processes – for example in cities, municipalities or other authorities – structured assessment centers and audit procedures for managers ensure legal certainty, traceability and high acceptance of the results.
Depending on your needs, we provide comprehensive support from concept development to results documentation. We train your internal assessors and compile all the necessary components (exercises, evaluation forms, guidelines) to suit their requirements. The executive assessment center can be conducted in person or entirely online.
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Ask us your questions, we will usually get back to you within two working days, examine your initial situation and recommend a suitable approach – from selection assessment to individual potential analyses to management audit.
Practical methods for Potential analysis and Leadership development
INFO diagnostic suite for leadership selection – online, objective, meaningful, and practical. The modules can be flexibly integrated into assessment centers for executives and interviews.®Integrate procedures and management audits.
Key components are:
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The Personality-Motive Compass (PMC)
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Practical simulations for selection and assessment centers
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Structured, multimodal interviews (MMO)
1. The Personality-Motive Compass (PMC)
Career-relevant insights into inner motivation patterns and key leadership qualities, presented in an individual personality profile with a color model and detailed results report. Ideal as a starting point for leadership selection, individual development discussions, or leadership development programs – in companies as well as in the public sector.
2. Practical simulations for selection and assessment centers
We provide you with a wide range of realistic, leadership-relevant and field-tested exercises, presentations and simulations – tailored to your areas of responsibility, target groups and specific framework conditions of organizations in business and administration.
3. Structured, multimodal interviews (MMO)
The multimodal or multimethodical interview MMO® is based on the methodology of Prof. Schuler and has been significantly further developed by the psychologists at INFO GmbH. This development includes the integration of dialogic microsimulations and the creation of comprehensive question pools for both the private and public sectors. Our competency-based question pools contain over 200 situational questions/critical incidents and micro-simulations with behaviorally based assessment anchors covering all relevant social, personal, and methodological competency areas, in addition to open-ended and biographical questions. These are precisely selected to meet your specific projects and requirements. The multimethodical interview can be conducted online or in person and can be integrated into assessment centers, Interessment®, and management audits – even within the framework of formalized recruitment processes.
Management Audits: Analyze strengths and areas for development
A Management Audit Provides you with a systematic overview of the competencies, potential, and risks within your leadership team – from the first management level to top management. Typical reasons for this include strategic realignment, succession planning, post-merger integration, restructuring, or the preparation of major transformation programs.
In our management audit, we combine structured, competency-based interviews with selected exercises, feedback tools, and – if needed – diagnostic tools such as personality or motivational analysis. This creates a differentiated picture of the current performance, future viability, and development needs of your managers.
Management audits – whether classic, 360-degree, perspective or expert audits:
We advise you on the appropriate audit approach based on your specific objectives, framework, and corporate strategy. Together, we compile all the necessary parameters from our in-depth exercises, modern tools, and comprehensive methods. You will experience leadership behavior in realistic situations and receive a sound, easily understandable profile as a basis for decision-making or development – even in the context of demanding recruitment or complex hiring processes.
Our Interest®-Procedure This approach combines the strengths of multimodal interviews with elements of assessment centers in a compact, individual assessment. Each relevant competency area is assessed three times – through open-ended competency interviews, situational questions/scenarios, and a practical exercise. This increases accuracy and ensures high transparency and acceptance among managers, HR, works councils, and other committees.
We support you not only in the selection and potential analysis, but also in targeted personnel development for your managers. This allows you to directly implement results from management assessment centers, potential analyses, and management audits into effective, company-specific strategies. Development programs as well as implementing individual measures.
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Would you like to implement the process yourself? We'll equip you with all the necessary tools, guidelines, and training. Or we can handle the implementation and evaluation together with you – whichever suits you best.
What sets us apart:
- Use of exclusively scientifically sound and practically proven methods
- Extensive experience in the selection and development of executives
- Experienced senior consultants with profound diagnostic competence and their own leadership experience as assessors
- Selection and development processes are always individually coordinated with HR, specialist departments, staff councils and committees.
- Tailor-made selection processes and leadership development programs – effective, dynamic and closely linked to your corporate strategy
- Individual tools under a licensing model or comprehensive support from a single source – from potential analysis and recruitment processes to management audits
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FREQUENTLY QUESTIONS ASKED
Here we answer the most important questions about our services and working methods. If your question isn't answered here, please write to us – we'll get back to you within two business days.
How do assessment centers for managers and management audits differ?
A Assessment Center for Executives It usually focuses on suitability for a specific target position or function. Management Audit It also considers the entire management system, provides a structured overview of strengths, risks and potentials in the management team and is particularly suitable for strategic decisions, transformation projects and demanding recruitment processes.
When is an assessment center for managers useful, and when is a potential analysis for managers appropriate?
A Assessment Center for Executives is particularly useful for new hires, internal selection decisions, critical key positions and formal Job openings. One Potential analysis for managers – for example in the form of a development center or interest group® – is suitable if you want to specifically develop existing managers, Securing succession or want to identify talents for future roles.
For which target groups and organizations are assessment centers for managers and management audits suitable?
Assessment Center We deploy managers in different constellations for lower, middle and upper management levels. Management Audits They are primarily used for top management, executive boards and key central positions.
The customer base of INFO GmbH companies different industries as organizations of the public service – for example, cities, municipalities, and other public authorities. Here, we take into account specific competency requirements such as citizen orientation, dealing with political bodies, and working in complex administrative structures.
What does a management audit typically entail?
The process begins with defining objectives, target group, and competency model. This is followed by management audits, including structured interviews, selected exercises, and – if desired – diagnostic procedures such as personality or motivational analysis or 360-degree feedback. The result is a clear strengths and weaknesses profile, recommendations for the potential development of your managers, and a comprehensive overview of your management team – serving as a basis for development, recruitment, and strategic decisions.
How long does an assessment center for managers take?
The duration depends on the target group, position, and questions being asked. Compact Assessment Center for Executives For individual positions, training often takes half a day or a full day. More comprehensive development centers – including evaluation and feedback – can take up to 1.5 days. Focused Interest®The procedures take 2.5–3 hours, depending on their scope and depth. In addition, a follow-up examination usually takes place at a later time. individual skills development discussion based on the results.
What role does feedback play in the potential analysis of managers?
Feedback is a key component. Managers receive differentiated, resource-oriented feedback with concrete development impulses. Upon request, we involve supervisors, HR, and other stakeholders, or supplement the manager potential analysis with coaching, 360-degree feedback, and customized development programs.
How is the quality of the procedures ensured?
Our assessment centers for executives, potential analyses, and management audits adhere to recognized standards of aptitude diagnostics. Multiple independent observations per competency, trained assessors, clear behavioral anchors, structured documentation, and comprehensive feedback ensure a high-quality evaluation. Objectivity, validity and fairness – even in formalized appointment procedures with high transparency requirements.
What's the best way to get started with INFO GmbH?
You can use a single Assessment center for a specific management position begin, a Management Audit For a management level, a gateway process is strategically advisable, in which defined procedures for quality assurance in the staffing of management positions are implemented for all management levels. Take advantage of a free consultation. Send us your questions and requirements – we will develop a proposal that fits your organization, your culture, and your competency requirements.
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Every company is unique – that's why we don't develop off-the-shelf solutions. Tell us about the challenges you face, and we'll show you how we can provide targeted support.
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