Amplifying Leadership
Amplifying Leadership
Apricot's Inception
At PeopleWiz, we spent years perfecting human-based assessments—deploying expert assessors to observe, measure, and interpret leadership competencies across diverse industries. While powerful, these methods came with challenges: they were costly, difficult to scale, and despite our best efforts, still susceptible to subconscious biases.
So, we asked ourselves a bold question: Could generative AI unlock a new frontier to revolutionize assessments—making them more accessible, accurate, unbiased, and even engaging?
That single thought set us on a path to discovery. We dove deep into experimentation—refining algorithms, testing role-play scenarios, and optimizing in-basket simulations that felt astonishingly real.
Along the way, we tackled hurdles: ensuring data integrity, crafting seamless conversational flows, and capturing the subtle nuances of human behaviour. With each iteration, our vision sharpened.
And the breakthrough happened—leveraging AI as an ‘assessor’ in role-plays and simulations didn’t just work, it redefined the standard. It brought unmatched consistency, objectivity, and immersion.
The result? Apricot—a cutting-edge suite of AI-powered assessment tools designed to scale effortlessly, cut costs, and create an engaging, insight-rich experience. From dynamic role-plays to interactive in-basket activities, apricot delivers actionable intelligence that fuels both individual and organizational growth.
Through this journey, one truth has stood out—technology is at its most powerful when it's guided by a passion for meaningful, unbiased human progress. And with apricot, that future is here.
How Apricot Works?
Apricot is an AI-driven competency assessment tool designed to identify leadership potential with precision and objectivity. It operates through two core pillars: Apricot-Enabled Bot and Apricot-Enabled In-Basket, each offering unique capabilities to analyze, evaluate, and simulate real-world business scenarios.
These AI-driven tools provide organizations with credible insights for leadership identification and development.
AI Powered Role Play
- Versatile Competency Evaluation: Apricot seamlessly hosts a real-world business scenario— and can evaluate chosen competencies from over 120 leadership competencies within PeopleWiz’s Capital Competency Framework. It allows users to take an assigned role and have an in depth conversation with AI enabled tool that mimics a human assessor. The user’s responses are evaluated for cues covering competencies under steering self, leading others, and managing business.
- 40 Minute Real Time Assessment: This on demand, multilingual chat based role play is accessible anytime, anywhere, delivering an immersive participant experience while objectively assessing competencies across seven proficiency levels and lowering assessment costs.
- Objective & Bias-Free: Eliminates human subjectivity, biases, and pre-conceived notions ensuring a fair and data-driven evaluation.
- Comprehensive Reports: Gain actionable insights on strengths and areas of improvement to drive both individual and organizational growth.
AI Powered In Basket Assessments
- Comprehensive Competency Evaluation (90 minutes): Apricot immerses participants in a fully simulated inbox where they must prioritize tasks, make time critical decisions, and communicate with virtual stakeholders. The AI engine captures performance across a broad spectrum of leadership competencies revealing how leaders operate under authentic, real world pressure.
- Intuitive, Engaging User Experience: Delivered through a streamlined interface accessible anytime, anywhere, the simulation offers an enjoyable, game like environment that keeps participants fully engaged while ensuring consistent, objective data collection for sharper talent decisions.
- Immersive AI-Driven Challenge: Participants handle real-world tasks to gauge the vastness and nuances of the job role like responding to emails, delegating responsibilities, managing team productivity, and analytical-thinking while the AI observes behavioral and performance indicators to be successful at their role.
- Thorough, Actionable Results: Receive a detailed analysis to identify competency levels and growth areas of each participant helping leaders refine their skills for future opportunities.
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Why Choose
Apricot
Apricot is a cutting-edge approach to transform leadership assessment with accuracy, objectivity, and data-driven results.
- AI-Driven Precision: The technology ensures proactive observations, allows need-based customization, and delivers objective competency evaluation with leadership parameters.
- Scalable & Cost-Effective: Apricot’s focus is to enhance assessment consistency and conduct multiple concurrent assessments with efficiency which significantly reduces costs.
- Engaging & Realistic: Participants experience immersive AI-powered simulation to engage in and navigate leadership roles that replicate real-world business scenarios.
- Actionable Insights & Plagiarism checks: Apricot delivers comprehensive reports with data-driven recommendations to support informed leadership development and organizational growth. It also conducts plagiarism checks to deliver a high quality report.
Apricot Key Features
Engage in dynamic, chat-based role-play and simulated leadership scenarios, where AI serves as your real-time assessor, providing sharp insights and unbiased evaluations.
Apricot is designed to evaluate critical leadership competencies through data-backed insights and comprehensive reporting for actionable solutions.
- Beyond Traditional Assessment Center: Due to its ability to simulate a wide range of scenarios, Apricot evaluates the depth of wide range of leadership competencies which is beyond assessment center approach.
- Communication & Influence: Engaging with an AI-tool creates a comfortable and a stress-free environment for participants to express themselves naturally.
- Adaptability & Crisis Response: The tool examines flexibility, emotional intelligence, and ability to pivot strategies during uncertain situations. The AI measures how participants manoeuvre uncertainty, make quick yet effective decisions, and maintain team spirit in high-stake situations.
Apricot deciphers various nuances and parameters in knowledge, language, responses, and behavioral patterns with AI-driven precision delivering an exhaustive and unbiased leadership evaluation.
- The AI-driven framework assesses competencies using multi-dimensional evaluation tailored to organization’s leadership needs.
- Detects decision-making trends and navigate patterns that are often overlooked in traditional assessments.
- With AI-led assessments, we eliminate human biases ensuring a genuine evaluation process for leadership potential without the influence of external factors or impression management.
Engage in dynamic, chat-based role-play and simulated leadership scenarios, where AI serves as your real-time assessor, providing sharp insights and unbiased evaluations.
Apricot is designed to evaluate critical leadership competencies through data-backed insights and comprehensive reporting for actionable solutions.
- Strategic Planning & Execution: Apricot’s tailored assessments have the ability to develop and implement effective and customizable strategies that align with both individual and organizational growth objectives.
- Beyond Standardized Assessment: The Ai-powered tool evaluates the depth of critical and analytical thinking, logical reasoning, measures confidence, risk assessment, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Communication & Influence: Engaging with an AI-bot creates a comfortable and a stress-free environment for participants to express themselves naturally. It assesses clarity, persuasiveness across diverse business topics, and adaptability in written and verbal interaction.
- Leadership & Team Dynamics: Apricot analyzes how participants lead their teams, delegate tasks, and resolve conflicts while assessing decision-making, collaborative attitude, and the ability to foster a productive work environment.
- Adaptability & Crisis Response: The bot examines flexibility, emotional intelligence, and ability to pivot strategies during uncertain situations. The AI measures how participants manoeuvre uncertainty, make quick yet effective decisions, and maintain team spirit in high-stake situations.
- Efficient Execution & Accountability: Apricot reviews how participants take ownership, manage priorities, and drive results ensuring accountability and efficiency.
Apricot deciphers various nuances and parameters in knowledge, language, responses, and behavioral patterns with AI-driven precision delivering an exhaustive and unbiased leadership evaluation.
- Our AI-driven framework assesses competencies using multi-dimensional evaluation tailored to organization’s leadership needs.
- Detects decision-making trends and navigate patterns that are often overlooked in traditional assessments.
- Customizable competency benchmarking ensures relevance and precision in leadership developmental models.
- With AI-led assessments, we eliminate human biases ensuring a genuine evaluation process for leadership potential without the influence of external factors or impression management.
Client Experience with
Apricot
Hear from organizations that have transformed their
leadership development with Apricot.
We partnered with Peoplewiz on competency-based assessments for our groupwide Leadership Development Program. Their AI-driven roleplay assessment effectively evaluated candidates across critical competencies, delivering thorough and insightful findings appreciated by all stakeholders. This innovative use of generative AI, combined with detailed reports and competency-based recommendations, has enabled tailored development plans for each participant.
Group L&D Manager,
Albatha Group, UAE
Developing Apricot was a thrilling journey of blending cutting-edge technology with deep assessment know-how. We spent countless hours refining our algorithms, ensuring the AI could interpret and respond to participants’ cues just like a seasoned human assessor would. By crafting scenarios that mirror real-world complexities, we made certain Apricot delivers consistent, unbiased, and comprehensive insights. Our aim has always been to humanize technology—to create a tool that feels intuitive, adapts to diverse assessment needs, and ultimately elevates the entire leadership development process.
Chief Architect,
Apricot
The level of objectivity and depth in the reports generated by Apricot has enhanced my ability to pinpoint developmental areas, allowing me to provide more targeted and impactful recommendations. It’s not just a tool—it’s an invaluable partner in elevating the precision and effectiveness of leadership evaluations.
Certified Assessor
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