Fourth project meeting in SIC project II

Aim of this project was to find a common agreement regarding the content of the methodology.
The suggested proposal was written by some partners of the group and focus on assessment centre as a tool for assessing strategical individual competencies. Also contained will be self assessment and, outgoing from the results, a plan for personal development will be suggested. All will be available on a CD, also for limited time on the project website.
My resume:
As different as our backgrounds and level of experiences as different are the approaches to test and develop strategical individual competencies. The result ais a common agreement, not really revolutionary, but not bad.
I know, there are no easy recipes and personal development is a difficult and never ending long way.
It is sometimes a walk on the edge to test soft skills and give pre-formatted suggestions for personal development.
Companies use such tests for a pre-selection out of a large number of applicants.
But more common are online test environments which simulates real working processes, or project related internships. Both tools, used for a longer period of time gives assessors and attendees a better possibility to recognize resp. show their competencies.
However, for some persons the test can be an impulse to thought about personal weaknessess and strenghts. In the wild forest of personal coaching methods are lots which promises fast results on an easy, mechanical way, but also some whith a real focus on personal development.
Each human being has it's own strategy to cope with it'S weaknessess and opportunities, by ignoring them, do not realizing them or giving responsibilities for own decisions and behaviour away. Just few wants to go the deeper inside to reveal reasons for and change behaviour.
We do not really always want to know what happens inside
C'est la vie!