Psychometric Testing

The traditional method of recruiting requires the process of placing an advert, screening CV’s, developing a short list, interviewing applicants, screening out applicants, checking references and then making an offer. However, many companies declare that this old-fashioned method does not work. Recruiters and Employers are now more likely than ever to use psychometric assessments during candidate selection and organisational development and promotional practices.

Psychometric testing gives an objective overview of a candidate’s character, strengths, weaknesses and working style.

Choosing to use psychometric testing in recruitment processes, will not only be saving on recruitment costs by selecting the right candidate in an objective manner that will lessen workload but also with the combination of other sources, the employer will be able to obtain information on past, present and most importantly potential future working behaviour.

The Society of Human Resource Management has roughly prepared an estimate marking that many companies use the method of psychometric testing for hiring new individuals in their company. It has also been pointed out that this number is increasing every year.

Individual Coaching

Individual coaching is usually considered to be something that is only available to a small number of individuals within an organisation and is typically associated with senior members of the business. With career paths becoming more unpredictable and fragmented all individuals within a business, stand to benefit from development which can offer them stability and help them to consider their own personal development and career path, regardless of the level they are currently at. In today’s fast moving and complex global world, individuals, teams and entire organisations can benefit from as little as one person being coached.

For organisations, individual coaching is a long-term investment in higher business performance. It is the most cost effective way of getter higher performance from key individuals. Individual Coaching is evidence of the company’s commitment to developing its people and contributes to a supportive organisational culture with high morale.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence, also called EI, is partly the ability to recognize and control your own emotions, and understand what these emotions are telling you. Emotional Intelligence – EI also means that you can recognize the emotional wants and needs of others and respond appropriately. Putting it simply, Emotional Intelligence – EI determines your self-awareness and your people skills.

Emotional Intelligence is necessary for building trust, creating a sense of identity and efficacy, solving problems with others, cooperating, and participating productively in a group.

Research shows that people with high Emotional Intelligence are often more satisfied with their work, have better work relationships, and experience higher productivity than people with lower Emotional Intelligence.

When Emotionally Intelligent people work together, they have the ability to sweep aside minor conflicts in order to focus on the team’s interests. They can deal well with more serious conflicts, and they can grow from any disagreements that may arise.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Team members who seek to understand one another will likely improve their overall team effectiveness because their communication is better. One tool that can help teams understand their members is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, also known as the MBTI, or simply the Myers Briggs.

As a business leader looking to place employees in roles that match their strengths and to improve teams within the company, the MBTI assessment can be useful to improve the work environment. For example, MBTI can measure communication styles. Learning the differences among these styles helps organisations develop programmes and workplace rules that minimize conflict and improve communication among co-workers themselves and between workers and management.

The MBTI also helps to identify strengths, resources and potential weaknesses within a team. Moreover, MBTI helps in resolving, preventing and managing conflict and stressors because of the great understanding and awareness of other people’s preferences.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming – NLP

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) takes you on a journey of self discovery. It allows you to generate your own learning and awareness from working through the processes taught. You will benefit from the acquisition of models of excellence in human behaviour. This will provide you with a true leading edge in understanding yourself and others in any context and help you both professionally and personally.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has three key benefits:

• It improves communication
• It helps individuals to change their own thinking and responses, and also that of other people
• It helps to replicate excellence, either your own or that of others

One of the most useful areas of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) covers ‘values’.

This can be defined as what is important, or what someone wants or looks for, whether that’s in a job, a partner or a car. The concept of values can be used in several areas, such as decision-making – which job to apply for or accept; selling – actuarial services, for instance; and influencing – colleagues, bosses and staff.