'Measure before you decide....'
Seasonsed carpenters and joiners measure carefully before they make decisions about fitting any furniture they build or install. A wise leader likewise uses relaible, valid measurements before she makes critical decisions about people.
The last twenty years has witnessed technological advance in adminstering psychological instrumetns as well as some statistical advances in their design. But the basic task remains the same: making sure you measure what you need to know in order to make sound decsions.
Our psychologists are well-qualified in using psychometric tools and in designing surveys and specialist tool like repertory grids and Q sorts. Registered to use the instruments published by all the leading publishing houses, our watchword in advising what to us is quite simple: 'fitness for purpose'.
Fitness for purpose
Our library and licensing arrangements ensure we can provide psychological measurement tools that are just right for the range of tasks ourlined on this site, including:
- assisting an indivvidual coaching client to weigh up strengths and vulnerabilities he brings to his working relationships with others<;/li>
- enabling a person returning to work after an injury or illness to consider possible career adjustments that may be necessary';
- helping management to consider the best combination for a project team;
- providing structured feedback to a counselling client recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The payoff from sound psychological measurement
When you are very engaged in you work, even whenyo are grappling with setbacks, it is very easy to lose sight of the reality that others see your sitaution differently to you, sometimes very differently. A major benefit of carefully-selected tools of pscyhological measurement lies in slowing down enough to get a really rounded perspective on a difficulty or opportunity.
This makes correction, adjustment and negotation of options much less fraught and can open up unanticipated perspectives,
