Assessment for Selection
Blue Oyster provides assessment & selection services including psychometric assessment & interpretation and the design and delivery of assessment centres through qualified professionals. These help our clients enhance their own recruitment processes. Our assessment services support activities in the arena of low volume – high quality recruitment where hiring decisions are high risk and business critical e.g. senior manager and board level appointments.

Assessment for Development
Blue Oyster provides development centre interventions for the development of key individual contributors, team leaders, senior managers and executives. Development centre techniques include, group exercises, individual exercises, psychometric assessment, development feedback and development planning tools. Our aim with all assessment is to provide an objective balance between evidence and professional judgement.

Manager as Coach Programme
This hugely successful 3 day programme is designed to build the internal coaching capability within our client organisations. If you believe in the real value of the coaching process and want this to become a core competency within your organisation, then we can develop your managers and other key staff to become effective performance coaches. This is extremely cost effective and means that you do not need to constantly seek coaching expertise from outside the organisation except in exceptional circumstances.

Coaching Support
We work with clients either on a 1-1 basis or with small groups to improve performance. All our consultants are highly experienced
coaches and have worked with a wide range of clients in many different industry sectors. A coach does not need to be a ‘technical expert’ to be effective - it can actually get in the way of effective coaching (this in our definition is the territory of the ‘mentor’). What our coaches are expert at is; ‘Coaching’. We have a very successful track record in supporting senior managers and directors in turning around those individuals who are under performing and also, fundamentally in maximising the performance of existing high performers.

Team Excellence Programmes - Team Development & Team Building
We provide the bespoke design and facilitation of programmes for both team development and team building. So what is the difference?

We view team building as being an intervention to give a newly formed project team the best possible start (vertical start up) to a specific project. Team development on the other hand, is an intervention designed to develop an existing team by finishing the unfinished team business, removing perceived barriers to team performance (resolving relationship issues) and increasing team effectiveness.

Both programmes focus on motivation & commitment, conflict handling, team climate, self management, relationship management, openness of communication and tolerance of differences. Both programmes are built around and underpinned by the teams' goals and objectives.