Thursday, 16th May 2019 Most personality assessment in an organisational setting involves the use of self-report questionnaires, which assume an underlying stable and enduring personality that can be accurately measured by individuals answering questions about themselves. One of the main criticisms levelled at self-report questionnaires is that they are particularly susceptible to faking [...]
Wednesday 6th March 2019 at the Naval Club Speakers: From left to right: Mike Murray, Principal Consultant, PSI Talent Measurement; Dr Chris Dewberry, Reader in Psychology at the Department of Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck and Philippa Riley, Director of Global Assessment Products, PSI Talent Management. As leading practitioners involved in [...]
On Wednesday 28th November 2018, we held our annual New Frontiers Seminar, always a popular event, this year was no exception and very well received. The theme for our annual event was: ‘How is technology disrupting the recruitment and development process?’. A huge topic, but our speakers who were a mixture of practitioners currently [...]
Tuesday, 18th September 2018 at the Naval Club Speakers and Topics: Prof. Jill Flint-Taylor BSocSc (Hons), MSocSc, PhD Dr. Angelina Bennet BSc (Hons), MSc, DProf, C.Psychol Transitioning from Middle to Senior Management Any transition requires a level of insight into which attitudes and behaviours need to change and which may still be [...]
May 16, 2018 at the Naval Club Ben Thornton, Director PWC HR Consulting Practice Leads the HR Transformation proposition for PWC UK, including Technology In this interactive session Ben shared a number of recent PWC thought leadership papers including: Mega Trends – the 5 trends shaping modern life; Workforce of the [...]
Thursday, 8th March 2018 at the Naval Club. Diane Newell Managing Director of The OCM's Coaching Services business Diane led an informative and interactive session in the morning, helping us to explore what neuroscience is revealing about the working of the human mind and we debated: What are we learning from [...]
Tuesday, November 28th 2017 Speakers: Dr Hugh McCredie, Dr Rainer Kurz, Dr Nigel Guenole, James Bywater This very successful and well attended event looked at new concept psychometrics, new applications, new insights, new alternative models of personality, ability and competence, new methods of test administration and comparative validation studies. We [...]
Wednesday, 20th September 2017 This event explored the popular topic of team development and our two speakers brought us a slightly different take on working to improve the effectiveness of teams as a way of enriching and deepening our understanding of how people interact. Alan Robertson Business Psychologist, Director at [...]
Tuesday, 20th June 2017 Continuing TPF’s 2017 theme of psychological myth-busting, this event explored aspiration versus reality in testing in occupational personality. The topic was explored from the perspective of training provision, test standards, and ethical issues. The afternoon session included group work with attendees sharing testing dilemmas, followed by responses from [...]
Wednesday, 8th March 2017 Dr Hugh McCredie TPF Vice Chair and widely published researcher The topic of Hugh's talk was 'Adult Personality Change - Mission Impossible?' A discussion of members’ experiences took place in two groups, followed by an extensive review of published research, with a balance between arguments both for [...]