Summer 2009 Human Resource Measurement Newsletter
Three Ways
Career Changers Can Get the Most from Tests and Assessments
When David Fabricant wanted to transition out of R&D and into marketing, he turned to an executive coach.
“Six years ago, I was an engineer in R&D for a consumer products company,” says David Fabricant, now a Global Director of Marketing for Interbody products with Stryker Spine in Allendale, NJ. “To some people, R&D might sound like a glamorous job, but the opportunity was not what I wanted and I was disillusioned with engineering and with the company.”
He decided to undergo not just a job change but a career change. Working with Dr. Wendy Alfus-Rothman, a business psychologist, he developed five-year and ten-year plans. “There was even a 40-year scenario,” he says. “Location, industry, function, compensation—everything.” Only then did they start formal assessments. Read the complete article: Learn how to find the right context, the right coach and the rights tests.
White Paper: "Tests and Assessments for Career
Direction: An Overview"
This paper reviews four major categories of career assessment and provides examples of tests from each category. Coaches and counselors will find this a good introduction to offer their clients. Download a PDF copy.
Hiring at the Entry Level for Dependability, Composure and Customer Focus
If you want an off-the-shelf approach to entry-level selection, you will want to know about Hogan’s new Advantage Report. Though an inexpensive approach to selection, these reports are based on the same rigorous research Hogan Assessments is known for. Advantage accurately and efficiently predicts a candidate’s on-the-job performance without adverse impact. Read more ...
See a sample report. • See Advantage Entry Level Hiring Report overview.
Six Case Studies on the ROI of Workplace Personality Testing
While many human resource professionals agree that assessments can help manage talent, they are often required to make a business case for the investment. Hogan Assessments has provided six case studies to illustrate the effectiveness of workplace personality tests. The paper includes studies in six job families:
- Law Enforcement Industry: Probation/Parole Agents
- Transportation Industry: Drivers
- Pharmaceutical Industry: Mid-Level Managers
- Communications Industry: Senior Management
- Insurance Industry: General Agents
- Consumer Goods Industry: Food/Warehousing Job Families
Download Case Studies on the ROI of Personality Testing.
Hogan Personality Test Certification Workshops
Please call for the November 2009 date: Become qualified to administer and interpret the predictive workplace personality tests from Hogan Assessment Systems. Please call for our November 2009 date. All seminars are $1200, discounted from the full retail value of $2300. Certification includes: a personal assessment , a copy of The Hogan Guide , all Certification Materials , one hour of pre-conference telephone review of your own reports and one-half hour of post-conference telephone review of your first live case. These one-day seminars are scheduled from 8:30 – 5:00, and take place in Westbrook, CT. The registration deadline is 14 calendar days prior to the workshop due to pre-workshop activities. Call 800-565-4223 or email for upcoming dates.
Hogan Workshop Agenda • Hogan Workshop Registration
New Certification Webinar for 360 Feedback
On September 16, 2009, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, you can become certified on 360 feedback by joining a web presentation by Dr. Paul Connolly. He will discuss the validated, role-specific 360 surveys from Clark Wilson Group. Dr. Connolly was a close colleague of Clark Wilson's, an industrial psychologist who pioneered the use of 360 feedback for management applications in 1973. Connolly is also co-author of several Task Cycle® Surveys published by Clark Wilson Group.
The Task Cycle has more than 30 years of feedback research behind it, and Performance Programs has been involved with that research since the early 1990s. The agenda includes:
• Key requirements and best practices in 360 Feedback • The Task•Cycle® Model, including overview of psychometric background • The Survey of Leadership Practices™ • In-depth discussion using sample reports • Review of several generic Clark Wilson Group 360 assessments including Executive Leadership Survey, Leadership Competencies for Manager, and Survey of Management Practices • Review of sample profiles and interpretation.
Certification includes a 30 minute review of your first case by telephone, as well as an extensive collection of support materials See support contents.
September 16, 2009
or November 12, 2009
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. EST
Fee: $600.00
Human Resource Books and Surveys by PPI Associates
Many of our customers and associates are book authors as well as full-time HR professionals and consultants. Performance Programs has created assessments for a number of their books, including The Power of Full Engagement, The Power of Story, Blind Spots, and The Versatile Leader.
One of the most recent is Move to Greatness by Dr. Ginny Whitelaw and the accompanying survey, the Focus Energy Balance Indicator™ (FEBI™). To learn more, read on:
Move to Greatness
Book and a survey help you take the message home by Dr. Ginny Whitelaw
Who among us hasn't struggled with deep inner resistance to change, its source often frustratingly difficult to identify? Most people, when they seek to position themselves for greater personal or professional success, focus on behavior change and intellectual growth. According to PPI associate Dr. Ginny Whitelaw, the mind supplies only part of what must change for real differences to take root. We had the privilege of working with Dr. Whitelaw to create an online assessment based on the book, the Focus Energy Balance Indicator™ (FEBI™). The survey provides a customized map to the patterns of personality that interlink mind, body, and behavior.
Dr. Whitelaw, a former NASA scientist, is a biophysicist and Zen master. Her book, Move to Greatness, provides a highly integrated way to work with ourselves through movement, chosen environments and other very accessible, daily routines. Dr. Whitelaw draws on the Coordination Patterns work of Betsy Wetzig and provides an understanding of four energy patterns that emerge in movement, thoughts, feelings and behaviors. With her interdisciplinary expertise, Whitelaw offers an invaluable twist of insight in this book.
We had the privilege of working with Dr. Whitelaw to create an online assessment based on the book, the Focus Energy Balance Indicator™ (FEBI™). The survey provides a customized map to the patterns of personality that interlink mind, body, and behavior. Respondents learn what natural strengths they can leverage, how to uncover limiting patterns in both body and mind, and how to identify body movement patterns that accompany our greatest thoughts and our most challenging moments.
The Perils of Accentuating the Positive
by Rob Kaiser
Since the early-90s, the pendulum of academic and popular thought on business training and development has taken a giant swing towards positivity. Born in part from the work of those in the positive psychology movement, this movement was first articulated by books such as Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton and continues on in a parade of new book titles each year.
Not so fast, says Rob Kaiser and the dream team of management and leadership thinkers he's assembled to look at the downside of focusing on the upside. Kaiser was co-author with Bob Kaplan of The Versatile Leader, for which PPI assisted them in creating the online Leadership Versatility Index. Kaiser and Kaplan's versatility research shows that more than half of what separates the most effective leaders from the less effective is the ability to switch effectively among all the leadership competencies. Those aspiring to greater levels of leadership skill need to bring up their challenge areas as much as they need to accentuate their strengths and comfort zones.
The Perils of Accentuating the Positive takes a thoughtful look in ten chapters that draw on decades of research and years of experience coaching, consulting, and delivering development programs for managers and executives. The book includes articles by Michael Benson, Steven Berglas, Anand Chandrasekar, Craig Chappelow, Guangrong Dai, Malcolm Davies, Robert Eichinger, William Gentry, Robert Hogan, Robert E. Kaplan, Jean Brittain Leslie, Morgan McCall, King Yii Tang, and Randall P. White. Loaded with practical advice, it provides the rest of what you need to know about the practice known as “strengths-based development.” The book can be purchased through Hogan Press.
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