Test Duration 35-40 Minutes + administration time Languages English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Thai (and others) Why PSYASIA? Click here - new window will open

Introduction
Saville Consulting Wave ® is a completely integrated suite of assessment questionnaires, offering sophisticated individual and corporate diagnostics.

The Saville Consulting Wave suite is built around one powerful model and identifies "best fit" environments based on a comprehensive understanding of personal motives, talents and preferred culture. The positive interaction and alignment of these three crucial areas is a fundamental factor in achieving competitive advantage.

Saville Consulting Wave provides measures which efficiently assess individual motives, talents and workplace culture in a single questionnaire.

Saville Consulting Wave® Professional Styles
Saville Consulting Wave® Professional Styles is designed for use with experienced managers, directors and professionals on either an individual or group basis. This questionnaire measures motivation, talent and preferred culture. It adds value to both recruitment and development, transforming the quality of the assessment process with the sophisticated use of technology and powerful models of effectiveness in the workplace.

This version of Saville Consulting Wave produces profiles that combine both ipsative and normative scores, across 36 dimensions, in a recommended administration time of approximately 35 minutes.

There are currently two internet alternatives for Saville Consulting Wave Professional Styles:
-Online, invited access, which can be used unsupervised.
-Online, supervised access which is also available in hard copy.
The supervised version can be compared to results from "invited access" and unsupervised administrations as appropriate.

Saville Consulting Wave® Work Styles
Saville Consulting Wave Work Styles is a separate questionnaire designed for use with new graduates and a wide range of employees across sectors.

Saville Consulting Wave® Focus
A new short Saville Consulting Wave® questionnaire is also available - Saville Consulting Wave Focus. Wave Focus is a third of the length of Professional Styles. It takes just 15 minutes to complete and includes all the unique features of Saville Consulting Wave Professional Styles:-

Saville Consulting Wave provides measures which efficiently assess individual motives, talents and workplace culture in a single questionnaire.

The new short questionnaire is based on the most important facets of the highly valid Saville Consulting Wave Model (as used in the Professional Styles questionnaires) to create a questionnaire that is both short and a strong indicator of performance and potential at work.

For increased security, the questionnaire is available to be sent out across the internet in Invited Access format, but also provides the reassurance of a separate Supervised Access format which is completed in the presence of a Test administrator.

Saville Consulting Wave® scales
Measures 36 facets of Behavioural Style related to Occupational Success. The Saville Consulting Wave Focus Styles Model is presented below. The model is based on predicting a hierarchical model of work performance.

Note that each scale's meaning is explained in detail in the technical manual.

Saville Consulting Wave® Reports
The Saville Consulting Wave range produces the following reports:

Saville Consulting Wave Features and Benefits

Features	Benefits
Advanced scoring technology.	Shorter assessment times, greater accuracy and finely tuned measurement.
Dimensions selected for the best workplace validity from research on extensive groups of working people.	Enhanced measurement of job performance enabling more precise and confident decision making.
New dimensions maximising the prediction of work competencies.	Relevant to a wider range of roles and sectors.
Configurable, "Colossus" is a Saville Consulting bank of over 5000 items.	Tailored versions are available, developed around in-house competency frameworks and language.
Dual response style, both ipsative and normative.	Ability to hone in on specific scales where a candidate may have exaggerated or been overly self-critical.
Multi-lingual versions.	Global assessment in local language.
Predictions of cultural enhancers and inhibitors.	Cost effective, well matched selection with higher retention rates.
Exploration of the complex interaction between talents and motives.	Identifies unfulfilled motives and latent talents. This adds insight to feedback and development planning.
Dynamic question format.	Hones in on the fine distinctions and subtleties of each individual.
Measures 36 dimensions with each dimension comprising three sub aspects.	Comprehensive, offering the flexibility to work at summary level or to drill down and explore specific areas.
Separate versions for professionals and other staff.	Greater acceptability and relevance at senior levels.
One assessment model.	Offers the capacity to link people and their workplace culture, with the confidence of supporting validation.
Two on-line versions are available: invited access and supervised access. A hard copy supervised version is also available.	Flexible and unsupervised administration for screening / development but with the backup of secure versions at the final selection stage.
No Licence fees.	Pay as you go with lower annual costs.