UPECA Technologies is a steel casting and machining company that focuses on the high-value aerospace, oil, and gas industries. Mr. Stephen Chua, Vice-President of HR, is spearheading the implementation of a year-long leadership development program for identified talents with the potential to assume senior leadership roles in the company.

Mr. Stephen Chua’s first priority was to accurately determine the key areas for improvement of his high-potentials. Firstly, he wanted to use an online tool to assess candidates in three main areas (thinking style, behavioral style, and occupational interests).

Secondly, Mr. Chua also decided to use a more dynamic assessment tool to complement the results of the online tool. He chose Celemi Decision Base™, a business simulation. On why he chose Decision Base, he says:

“Celemi Decision Base is practical and interactive, with a highly relevant base scenario on manufacturing. Other companies do evaluations and generate profiles; they use career assessment talks to determine the future direction of their staff’s careers. But there’s no other validation. In this setup (an online assessment followed by a Decision Base seminar), the assessment and validation can be done externally.”

For Mr. Chua, assessing candidate behavior was important.

“Because traditional assessment results are merely shown in descriptive reports, UPECA felt it needed a more dynamic activity that enabled key HR stakeholders and assessors to evaluate behaviors more thoroughly” says Azman Shah Aziz, learning consultant at Celemi solution provider Performance Development Consultants. “Decision Base™ is the perfect simulation for this purpose. It is both broad and deep and allows the facilitator to be innovative and flexible in delivering the assessment. Decision Base™ offers a dynamic, work-like environment and as such it renders behaviors observable.”

“It also helped in validating the results of the aforementioned online tool. As a bonus, participants also benefit from the key learning points in the simulation” says Azman Shah Aziz.

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