Why isn’t there more time to do the exercises?
After completing VCA’s Career Progression Gateway (CPG) leadership assessments, many candidates ask why the timeframes are so tight. So why isn’t more time given?
7 Organisational Impacts of Using the Career Progression Gateway
There are the obvious ways a standardised, fair, reliable, evidence-based and objective system for assessing for promotion benefits an organisation. But what about the more subtle advantages?
A Conversation with a Group Manager
We spoke to a the Group Manager responsible for delivering promotions Supervisory and Middle Manager (Leading the Team/ Function) processes in their FRS to find out what led them to VCA and how they found the CPG first time round.
Why promotions are impacting culture in your FRS
Promotion processes are rarely popular, and approaches can shift like the tide as services struggle to find the holy grail of what will a) cause least complaint from candidates and rep bodies b) be manageable for overworked admin teams c) fit the budget and d) identify leadership potential appropriately. (The pressures of a-c can leave point d. somewhat at the back of the queue.)
The top 4 mistakes when giving feedback on a promotions process and how line managers can avoid them
Having spoken to many candidates who have experienced both internally delivered feedback, and a developmental feedback session with our team, here are the 4 issues which seem to cause the greatest difficulties with internal feedback sessions, and some tips for making it easier and more effective for all involved.
Think your Fire Service can’t afford the CPG? You might be wrong
It’s easy to focus on what the costs would be to the Service of using an external provider such as VCA to run promotions processes, but what about the costs of not doing so, particularly in light of continued scrutiny of FRS fairness, ethics and effectiveness?
Career Progression Skills Workshops
What happens if certain individuals aren’t managing the assessment exercise well? What if they aren’t demonstrating the behaviours effectively, not because these aren’t the approaches they usually apply in the workplace, but because they aren’t using the opportunity provided in the CPG to present evidence in a way which demonstrates their full potential?
Fire & Rescue Service Review of 2023 from VCA’s perspective
At VCA we are in the privileged position of having been closely involved with the FRS across the UK for over 20 years, whilst remaining impartial and independent. Here is our perspective on this year from the work we have been engaged in.
Valid Results, Transformational Leaders and Big Plans for the Fire Service in 2024
The number of Career Progression Gateway (CPG) enquiries and demo’s we are delivering each week is really gathering pace. But why is the CPG getting so much attention now?
The Fire Service High Potential Solution hiding in plain sight
‘Fast-track, talent management, high potential, role jumping, leap frogging’… it’s almost as hard to find the right term for it as it is to work out how to do it!
