Call for Assessors for the Management Skills Assessment Program
Do you want to help support UC ANR fill its role in a UC systemwide program that helps people managers navigate their supervisory skill build areas?
Do you have most of these criteria:
Coaching experience?
Employee development experience?
Experience leading or working with groups?
Ability to commit to attending two MSAP programs with two years?
Title and Pay Plan: MSP 1, equivalent, or above?
Career Tracks: Manager I?
The Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP Web) is designed to strengthen the engagement and preparation of high potential UC supervisors, managers, and professionals. It offers an intensive, off-site, assessment center experience for early career managers.
The program guides participants through a series of structured exercises and simulations observed by trained assessors who offer feedback about observed strengths and development areas. Subsequent, collaborative work after the program between the assessee participant and his/her sponsoring manager fine tunes a professional development plan designed to optimize assessment feedback.
ANR Learning & Development funds send between 2-4 new ANR People Managers to this program each year. Another way we support the program is to provide on ANR trained assessors for each event.
Assessor Training
Assessors receive a 2-day training prior to the program and additional training on-site to prepare them for their role.
New assessors should complete the assessor application prior to their participation in the program. Returning assessors do not need to complete a new application, but please update the program coordinator if you have changes in dietary needs, emergency contact information, etc. To access the assessor application, please visit the Assessor Application. Choose ANR as your location. For more information, please contact jlazulai@ucanr.edu.
Current and past ANR assessors shared the following about their experience:
Tunyalee Martin, Associate Direct IPM. As a first time assessor, I felt welcomed and supported by my trainers to enable the learning process. What I wasn't prepared for was the intensity of each activity and how quickly the program went! As a 2013 graduate of the MSAP program, I learned about myself and gained confidence as I worked through the activities. Being able to give back to the program was exceptionally rewarding. I feel fortunate to be able to experience MSAP again and I'm looking forward to next time.
Jona Pressman, Nutrition Education Manager. “Serving as an MSAP assessor for the first time was a challenging but rewarding experience," Pressman said. "I found the program to be intensely fast-paced and filled with a myriad of activities throughout each day and evening. I learned and practiced MSAP observation and feedback techniques from the onset. I was surprised how quickly I established a rapport with my assigned assessees using the MSAP tools and techniques. Since returning from MSAP, I have already used the communication feedback techniques I practiced so intensely while serving as an assessor for MSAP.”
Laurent Ahiablame, Director UCCE San Diego. During the one-week off-site assessment sessions, I was both a teacher and a student, observing, listening and coaching assessees while itemizing my own skill deficits and grow competencies as a manager. MSAP is an effective long-term tool to boost organizational performance of the UC system. Whether you are an assessee or assessor, MSAP provides a safe space for discovery and self-discovery."
John Borba, ANR Youth Development Advisor. It was a mind-expanding experience for the assessees and the assessor. It also reinforced to me that some of the issues they need to address are also issues I personally need to address.
Ann Senuta, Former Director Publishing. People who have taken part in the MSAP program say it’s intense. It is! The process of identifying and evaluating your assessees’ strengths and areas of development is a huge responsibility, but it’s probably the most rewarding aspect of MSAP. I have so much respect for everyone who goes through MSAP—the assesses who want to discover how to improve their skills, the very organized coordinators, and most of all the other assessors from all over the UC system who work incredibly hard in those three and a half days to help guide the next generation of UC’s managers and leaders.