1. World Class Products AC-EXS® VirtualAC™ The Dilemmas Series™
CBI-Smart™
AC-EXS is our market leading range of ready-to-use business simulation exercises used by thousands of organisations across the globe.
VirtualAC simulates an online desktop environment, enabling you to deliver highly immersive and interactive simulation exercises to select and develop your staff.
Graduate, Management, Administrative, Customer Service, and Call Centre Dilemmas – our innovative range of online Situational Judgement Tests.
Our customisable online interview builder enables users to create standardised interview guides in minutes from a database of over 1,000 proven questions.
ATK®
e-Valuate®
Business Sim®
ATK is our online solution designed to ensure that interviews and assessment exercises are delivered consistently and in line with best practice and can all be stored in one place.
e-Valuate automates the scoring and feedback generation for all of your assessment and development centres, saving time, improving efficiency and consistency, and reducing material costs.
Business Sim is a dynamic, bespoke, group discussion, business simulation that engages participants in an interactive, fast-moving, contemporary business environment.

2. World Class Products The LIVED 360® 360 Propel™
The Resilience Questionnaire™
The Engagement Questionnaire™
Our leadership 360 feedback tool quickly and effectively measures behaviours that differentiate great leaders: Learning, Intellect, Values, Emotions and Drive.
Our customisable online
360° feedback questionnaire integrates with typical managerial competencies and includes personal development planning tools.
This tool examines the aspects of an individual’s ability to respond positively to setbacks and challenges. It is aimed at helping people to cope with stress and change.
This tool provides a measure of how employees feel about the organisation and their role within it, helping to identify ways to improve engagement levels.

3. Training Programmes
We run a number of assessment or product-related training courses, many of which relate to its expertise in the assessment centre field.
Level 1, 2 & 3 (Level A and B)
Assessor Skills
Centre Design & Management
Feedback Skills
Competency Design
Introduction to Competency Based Interviewing
Professional Competency Based Interviewing
Centre Administrator Skills
Resilience Questionnaire Conversion Course
Both assessor skills and centre design and management are endorsed by the Institute of Leadership and Management and approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Please note this is only relevant for courses that are run by a&dc consultants

4. AC-EXS®
The world’s widest choice of ready-to-use Assessment and Development Centre Exercises
Over 250+ tried and tested work simulation exercises
Assess 35 common competencies
Covers five levels: Non-Management, Graduate, First-Line Management, Middle Management and Executive & Senior Management roles
Reflects typical working scenarios: working alone, one-to-one, groups
Set in relevant industry sectors and business functions
Used in over 50 countries
Now available on-demand from our online store
Working Alone
Analysis Exercises
In-Basket Exercises
Scheduling Exercises
Working One-to-One
Interview Simulation (Roleplay)
Fact Find Exercises
Oral Presentation Exercises
Working in Groups
Assigned Role Group Discussion
Non-Assigned Role Group Discussion

5. VirtualAC™ Virtual-AC™ Components
Simulates an online desktop environment, where participants are presented with a variety of information and business issues
Enables you to administer and assess highly immersive and interactive business simulation exercises and ‘Day in the Life’ Virtual Assessment Centres
Powerful behavioural assessment for selecting and developing your leaders, high potential talent and front line staff
Virtual-AC™ Components
Participant Exercise Environment
Virtual Desktop to present simulation exercise content to participants and record their outputs
Assessor Marking System
Structured marking aid to support assessors in evaluating participant outputs from the exercise
Apollo™
Online assessment platform to manage exercise administration

6. Exercise Formats in VirtualAC™
Virtual ‘Day in the Life’ Exercises
Exercises which contain multiple interlinked activities within a single scenario, such as responding to s, writing reports and dealing with phone calls.
Virtual Inbox Exercises
Exercises in which the participant is presented with several s containing different issues, varying in terms of importance and complexity, which must be prioritised and actioned.
Virtual Analysis Exercises
Exercises requiring the participant to analyse verbal and numerical information about a work situation and produce a report with their conclusions and recommendations.

7. Apollo™ Online Assessment Platform
A web-based assessment platform hosting ready-to-use, customised and bespoke products
Fast, efficient administration of online tests, exercises and questionnaires
Multiple user login functionality
Easy project progress monitoring
Supervised and unsupervised administration modes
User-friendly system generated reporting for easy download
Flexible credit payment system
Platform customisation and branding options
Can be integrated with Applicant Tracking Systems for seamless end user interaction

8. The Dilemmas Series™
Situational Judgement Tests for effective and efficient online candidate sifting and assessment
Present realistic and job relevant scenarios
Tests available for five roles: Management, Graduate , Administration, Customer Service and Call Centre staff
Scenarios designed around key competencies for the role
Multiple choice format – candidates rate effectiveness of a series of responses
Automated marking against job expert consensus
Delivered online via the Apollo™ platform
Tests in The Dilemmas Series™
Administrative Dilemmas™
Graduate Dilemmas™
Customer Service Dilemmas™
Call Centre Dilemmas™
Management Dilemmas™

9. CBI-Smart™
Everything you need to create professional Competency Based Interviews online
CBI-Smart™ Interview Builder
Library of over 1,000 questions
Questions available for 35 popular competencies
Foundation to Senior Management level interviews
Create interview guides in minutes
Guides with questions and behavioural indicators plus complete marking guidelines
Bespoke Interview Solutions
Your competencies and questions
Branded user interface and interview documentation
Bespoke behavioural indicators and marking guidelines

10. LIVED® – Assessment and Development
LIVED ® is the only end-to-end Leadership Assessment and Development programme for VUCA readiness. Our five elements of effective leadership: Learning, Intellect, Values, Emotions and Drive (LIVED), can be used to assess and develop your current and future leaders. Assessment LIVED Leadership Assessment enables you to identify leaders with the ideal blend of capabilities to perform effectively in a challenging VUCA World. It can assess your current leaders to determine their strengths and development needs or determine the potential of current or future Leaders to add more value to your organisation, through a comprehensive assessment process. Development LIVED Leadership Development Programme enables leaders to develop and improve leadership skills aligned to the five LIVED dimensions, balancing skills development with exploration of business context and the use of personal reflection to identify learning commitments. The programme starts with assessment of your current and/or future leaders to understand their current strengths and development areas for VUCA readiness, using the LIVED model. The assessment is aligned to one of the four levels of the leadership pipeline and depending on your business requirements and knowledge of leadership requirements and trends, we will recommend the depth of assessment required.

11. LIVED 360™ Developing your leaders of the future
Pre-loaded with meticulously designed behavioural statements relating to all five LIVED® dimensions, so all you need to do is select your participants and send out the invites with no training required!
The questionnaire takes around 10 minutes for each rater to complete.
The tool contains 60 detailed behavioural statements relating to the five LIVED® dimensions, including learning agility.
The LIVED 360™ can be used to measure leadership performance and potential, giving you assurance that your leaders are a good fit with your organisation.
Automatically produced feedback reports - designed specifically with one-to-one feedback in mind, the clear report design and user-friendly format make the questionnaire results simple to understand and easy to feed back and act upon. Reports are available for you to download and print whenever you need them.
Extended reports available - giving you the option to add additional comments, top ten and bottom ten question ratings, question ratings for rater groups, blind spots for possible strengths and for possible development needs.

12. 360 Propel™ Fast, effective and highly flexible online 360 feedback
Helps individuals to understand how others perceive their behaviour and performance at work
Provides deep insight for personal development planning
Tailored to your needs – competencies, questions, rater groups, invites and more
Fast and simple online administration process
Accessible and informative feedback report
Incorporate your branding on questionnaire and report
Successful leaders need:

13. The Resilience Questionnaire™
Assessing and developing personal resilience at work
Provides insight for individuals experiencing change or uncertainty, or those in demanding roles
Measures eight key components of resilience
Takes only 10 minutes to complete online
Accessible and insightful feedback report for development
Structured interview guide for assessment
Reliable and valid psychometric questionnaire
Supporting workshop and workbook available
“an individual’s capacity to adapt positively to pressure, setbacks, challenge and change in order to achieve peak performance”
Eight Key Components of Resilience
Self Belief
Optimism
Purposeful Direction
Adaptability
Ingenuity
Challenge Orientation
Emotion Regulation
Support Seeking

14. The Smart Aptitude™ Series
The latest development in ability testing technology
High levels of accuracy and reliability ensuring decisions can be made on objective and valid information
Each test takes just 10 minutes to complete
The adaptive nature of the tests ensure the questions are aligned to the candidates’ ability levels
A growing item bank of questions, meaning that the candidate will be presented a unique combination of questions and protecting against data theft or cheating
No need to maintain different tests for different levels, the tests’ adaptive technology ensures that they can cater for all levels
Types of Smart Aptitude™ Series tests
The Smart Verbal Reasoning
The Smart Numeric Reasoning
The Smart Abstract Reasoning

15. Business Sim®
A bespoke business simulation that tests the candidates’ desktop capabilities using engaging and interactive tools.
Cutting edge – presents and updates information in contemporary communication formats including , social media, instant messages and video
Saving you time and money – minimal facilitation is needed, saving you time as well as the costly resource of role-players
Accurate and consistent – exercise content is pre-recorded, removing the risk of human error and giving you consistency across multiple centres
Validity - helps to tap into difficult to measure behaviours, such as learning and judgement
Why use Business Sim?
The realistic working environment will test the participants’ key skills and give them a realistic job preview
The highly engaging and immersive setting will improve the participant experience
Information is pre-recorded, providing consistency and greater control over content, and removing human error and interruptions

16. e-Valuate®
e-Valuate automates the scoring and feedback generation for all of your assessment and development centres, improving efficiency and consistency, and reduces material costs.
Makes the running of all centres easier and more efficient
Delivers a positive candidate and assessor experience
Puts all of your assessment materials in one place, so you know what people are using
Allows you to easily swap in parallel versions and as soon as you do, everyone everywhere will be using it
Automatically updates amendments to timetables in real time
Automates report/feedback writing
Holds all of the data in one place
Automatically gathers all of the scores ready for wash-up
Has an assessor chat function for quick and effective communication
Can integrate with other systems
Produces proven ROI

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You can link to any of the following product videos in your presentations
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