DCNS introduces OPTICREW® naval personnel management service
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DCNS
introduces OPTICREW® naval personnel management service
The innovative
service evaluates the personal qualities and team aptitudes of individual
crew members to optimise crew make-up for any given mission. The service
was developed under a research and development partnership between DCNS
and TKM Consulting, a management consultancy focused on personnel performance
improvement. One hundred officer cadets from the Ecole de Maistrance
at the French Navy's Centre d'Instruction Naval in Brest have taken
part in the first full-scale trial of the OPTICREW® crew dynamics
assessment service.
The OPTICREW® aptitude test is tailored to specific types of tasks and
missions and the software generates comprehensive results that can be
used by qualified naval training staff to optimise crew make-up.
(Picture: DCNS)
OPTICREW®
is a training, management and career orientation tool that is now available
to military academies. Individuals take the OPTICREW® test before
undergoing training to identify potential tensions within a team or
crew. Training staff can use the tool to assess the behavioural aptitudes
of team members without having to wait for real-life deployments to
understand team dynamics. Test results offer a quick way to determine
skills training and team building opportunities.
OPTICREW® is also relevant to organisations and companies deploying
teams to work in extreme conditions – emergency flight crews and
response teams, marine firefighters, SWAT teams, special forces and
law enforcement units, civil defence, offshore and nuclear industry
task forces, etc. For example, the service provides indicators of how
individual team members will react under stress in a crisis situation.
One of the key benefits of the OPTICREW® software is the ability
to generate test results quickly for more effective risk management.
By using the new service, naval commanders can make a rapid determination
of crew dynamics on a given mission, identifying complementary profiles
and potential areas of friction so that adjustments can be made ahead
of time to maximise the chances of mission success.
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