Clients use our assessments services for a range of applications – typically starting with pre-employement assessment at the recruitment stage.  Depending on the client and on the application I will use one or more of the following Psychometric Questionnaires 16PF, Myers Briggs and DISC.  See Sample Assessment PDF.  Sample Assessment PDF

 Recruitment and Promotion

Assessment for recruitment and promotion uses information from two or more personality questionnaires supplemented by an extensive, in-depth interview.  Assessment reports typically provide detailed feedback under nine headings.  Cognitive testing can also be provided if required.  The process is very thorough and in-depth and it is not uncommon for the report to be used as an aid for team working and ongoing development by the employee and the employer.

Team Development and Organisational Change

We generally use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a platform for team building.  This helps team members to understand themselves and their colleagues, validate strengths, identify weaknesses, appreciate differences in communication styles and harness synergies to solve problems.

For Organisational Change we use an innovative questionnaire, the OCI,  that enables management to profile the culture, or ‘personality’ of their organisation.  This is extremely helpful in gaining buy-in from line managers and employees and therefore makes the process of change significantly easier.

Coaching and Mentoring

We start all coaching programmes with a ‘diagnostic’ phase.  This provides information that helps the coach to understand how the individual likes to ‘self-manage’ and lead and influence others.  This can include input from the individual’s manager, 360° feedback, psychometric profiling and in-depth interviewing.  This enables the coach and the person being coached to be specific about the development areas and agree an appropriate programme to address them.

Presentation and Influencing Skills

We profile delegates using Myers-Briggs prior to them attending our presentation and influencing skills workshops.  This enables us to understand their instinctive style and provide feedback in ways that are most appropriate.  It also helps them to identify aspects of their presentation style that may work against them and identify specific techniques to address them.