Consultancy Services

Although we pride ourselves on our 'off the shelf' tests and questionnaires, sometimes you'll want something just for your organisation - and no one else. We have designed special, personalised products for organisations ranging from major retailers to national charities to local authorities and even care homes. These can include a forced choice element to minimise possible cheating and several of our larger clients have even put them online, incorporating them into their overall internet assessment process. The results are quickly obtained and the whole thing is designed with you in mind. You will end up with something truly bespoke that you can use again and again.

They say that, in skilled hands, even the most complex job can be broken up into eight or so crisply-defined competencies, ideal for job descriptions and person specifications… but where to start? What are you actually looking for? With our experts on hand, we will help you make that decision to your full satisfaction. Years of work in this area, coupled with innovative techniques, help us to really focus in on a manageable but robust and crucial handful of competencies that define any given job. See how our Job Match and Job Interview Guide facilities in our Psychometric Portal® work and let us make the best use of them on your behalf.

Despite a lot of simplistic and reductive literature out there, there is no 'one size fits all' solution for effective leadership. This is where our comprehensive set of products and associated services can help. Personality profiling (using our flagship questionnaire, The Quest Profiler®) is key here with its easy-to-follow detailed diagnostics and recommendations. We'll enable you to identify the recipe for success and assess your current capability in a thorough and objective manner. The very best organisations need a combination of leadership styles, behaviours and competencies. We'll determine what is right for you and where potential strengths and development needs lie.

Busy? Tied up with other things? Let us do the work for you! We can feed back the results from a whole range of psychometrics and if your staff need further development as a result, we can provide this too. Of course, this approach is particularly relevant where, for reasons of tact or politics, it is best to have an outsider, unconnected with your team or perhaps your whole organisation, providing this service. We're always happy to be your 'hired gun' and will approach each brief with a commendable neutrality. A Chartered Psychologist will have the experience and credibility to meet your objectives.

Of course, you can do these yourselves. Still, a member of your organisation running such a survey might be felt to be 'too close to the subject matter' - it is frequently better to get an outsider's perspective. Some consultancies will try to build up something from scratch - an enormously costly and time-consuming process. We already have mechanisms in place, not least our renowned Culture & Engagement Survey, that can provide you with exactly what you're looking for, the whole thing being wide open to additions and modifications by you. Once you have seen it in action, you'll never go back. You can even use it as a 'pulse survey' on a regular basis.

Developing talent is an area much debated. How much can realistically be done? In certain circumstances, can anything be done at all? How much is inbuilt and how much can be learned? It's the old 'nature vs nurture' argument again… it never seems to stop. With a diagnostic phase using state-of-the-art psychometric tools, we begin with development planning and identification of how best to utilise the learning resources available. We work in partnership with your organisation, identifying (and possibly developing) in-house resources where possible. Once the diagnostic stage has been completed, our clients are in a great position to understand fully the strengths and development needs of the participants. This is a crucial first step in any change and succession planning process.

No one person can be classified as perfect, we all have the things that we are strongest at and we all have things that we would class as weaknesses. That is why teamwork within a business setting is so integral to success. Assembling a team where each other's strengths balance out each other's weaknesses is a hugely effective way of maximising performance. Our consultants can work closely with your employees to help identify their strengths as well as their weaknesses, using our Team Report, to ensure that your employees and their teams are being utilised as effectively as possible.

As the name suggests, views of an individual's strengths and limitations (with scope for further development) are invited from all sides - typically a manager, direct reports, colleagues and anyone else who might be able to give relevant input. Our threesixty° instrument is cutting-edge in its customisability but good training is invaluable too. This is one area we can make absolutely perfect for you, such is the flexibility of both our questionnaires (which are built from the bottom up) and the way they are used. Let us turn you into a real threesixty° expert!

Where is it best to allocate your valuable training resources? The question can be a vexing one, particularly if budgets are limited. Let us help you decide, using both our expertise and some breathtakingly-useful and crystal-clear instruments such as our Job Match facility which can create role profiles like you've never seen before. Gain the maximum in both your employees' own self-fulfilment and their usefulness in what they can do for you. We like to be judged by our results and are convinced that you won't be disappointed.