Saville Consulting is an international assessment firm that helps organizations select, develop, and retain talent. They offer the Saville Wave assessment which identifies competencies, work motives, and development areas. The Wave model evaluates respondents across 108 facets within 4 clusters and 36 dimensions. It uses normative and ipsative response formats for validity. Reports compare individuals to relevant norm groups, identify competency strengths, and predict cultural fit to help organizations hire and develop top performers.

1. Saville Consulting – Wave
Select, Develop, Retain

3. Intro to Saville Consulting
• Saville Consulting is an international psychometric
assessment business founded in 2004 by
Professor Peter Saville.
• Saville helps organizations identify and develop
talented individuals and teams
• Saville offers an integrated and flexible product
portfolio that can be applied across a range of
activities (Selection, Development, Talent & Succession Management,
Executive Assessment, Coaching, Change management, Cultural Change,
Talent Audit, Team Effectiveness, Board Development )

4. About Saville Consulting

5. Why use Saville Wave ?
• The most valid indicator of competency potential and cultural
fit
• The only psychometric tool to identify work motives and talent
• High level of detail enabling in-depth views of talents, motives
and idevelopment areas
• One model; Multiple application
• Benchmarking against relevant norm groups
• Can be customized to your organizations competency
profiles
• Multiple language availability
• User and administrator friendly reporting
• Pay per click system (no licensing fee)

6. The Wave Model
The Wave Model - is a hierarchical model build around 4 clusters. Each clusters
breaks down in three (total 12 sections). Each of the 12 sections covers 3
dimensions giving 36 dimension in total. Each dimension again is broken down
into 3 facets, which makes 108 facets total.

7. The power of the Internet
A key feature of Savile Wave Styles
assessment is the dynamic on-line Rate-
Rank technique. Respondents rate
themselves on a 9-point Likert scale
(Normative), and are re-represented with
tied items in a forced choice format
(Ipsative)
Fig 1: Normative rating scale
Fig 2: Ipsative ranking scale

8. Comparison Group
The candidates responses
are compared to a certain
suitable norm group. For
example: Professionals &
Managers International

9. High Validity
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Validity of seven key questionnaires in the market
High validity
Chance
Moderate validity
Matched Sample of N=308 against external ratings on Global Performance (Applying
Specialist Expertise, Accomplishing Objectives, Demonstrating Potential)
Wave Focus Styles -
13 minutes, and has
the highest validity
per test taking minute
of any of the tools on
the market.

10. High ROI
Questionnaires with the highest validity increase your change of
selecting the best performers at work and considerably reduce
selection errors.
Assessment tool
with 0.3 validity
Bottom 20% candidates
Top 20% candidates Assessment tool
with +0.6 validity
Change of selecting
candidate from here
is 1 in 10
Change of selecting
candidate from here
is 1 in 50

11. Application

12. The Report
Professional Styles – Expert
Report
Response summary & Psychometric
Profile

13. The Report
Professional Styles – Expert Report
Competency Profile & Predicted
Culture/Environment fit