Role Profiling and Your Organization

Role Profiles: The Basics

Effective organisations tend to invest time in understanding their structure. Organisational structure is the grouping of the functions or departments in the organisation. The functions in the…

Personality Plasticity

You can change your life

William James, Freud, Erickson and Adler all believed personality to be stable throughout life and consistent across situations. Who we are as children is likely to be who we will be as adolescence and remain up until old…

Solution Focused Series — Making Meetings Meaningful

Meetings always happen

Meetings are one of those universal inevitabilities in the workplace: they can take up a lot of time and, while their premise is usually to share information, resolve open…

The 4 Characteristics of Snake-Oil Salespeople

Carl Sagan, in his excellent book, A demon-haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark, advises us to develop a finely honed baloney detector. It’s the sort of device that will help you avoid false claims, con artists, and snake-oil salespeople.

5 Steps to Creating Elite Teams in your Organisation

We’ve seen images of shadowy soldiers dropping from the sky. Every military and police force in the world has a space for elite teams. Teams that can do what others cannot. But businesses are beginning to see the advantages of elite teams…

Unique Software Solutions for Assessment Professionals

The use of technology to enhance business functioning has become an integral part of modern day work. Nobody thinks it strange that we use various software applications to streamline our communications, business processes, and HR…

Why Traditional Exit Interviews don’t work

You need to know why people are leaving your organisation. Unfortunately, people leaving is a normal part of organizational behavior. And often, it seems that the best people leave without nearly enough warning. It is exactly for this reason that…

3 Cognitive Biases that Influence your Decisions at Work

Whether you’re a manager of a large business unit, a team leader, or the HR Director of a listed company, you will be called upon to make judgement calls on people and issues almost daily.