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A New Year, A New and Effective You! About the Program: We'll start by coming together (over coffee and cake of course) to talk through the challenges and opportunities for women in work today. Together we'll share ideas and our own career journeys, followed by some developmental goal setting. You will then complete a set of psychometric assessments, tailored to your own goals. You'll receive comprehensive development feedback and a report, and two one-on-one *coaching sessions (spaced about one month apart). We'll also come back together to join in the celebrations for International Women's...


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Rethinking Development Imagine a workplace where you could do what you do best everyday! Really? How would it make you feel? Energised, satisfied, calm. Why not? As leaders in our organisations, isn’t it time we adopted a new paradigm, one where we get the very best out of our primary asset – our people! Vast psychological research and theory tells us that people are happiest when they play to their strengths. So why not leverage them? We are all unique – some of us thrive in chaos and uncertainty, some of us prefer to work alone with minimal interaction with others, some of us delight...


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Research design: How did I measure workers’ implicit and explicit safety attitudes? So how do you test workers’ implicit and explicit safety attitudes? I set out to explore the relationship between workers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards safety and to determine whether their responses on self-report measures are impacted by motivation. Two weeks ago I started testing participants who were workers from a worldwide mining industry. Four at a time, I tested 75 workers’ using a computer program I designed to test workers’ implicit safety attitudes. Participants were assigned...


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Ever wonder what your employees really think about safety? Have you ever wondered what your employees really think about safety? Are self-report questionnaires an adequate reflection of employees’ true attitudes towards behaving safely; or does employer expectation and response bias impact results? This poses the question of whether attitudes beyond introspection (those exempt from response bias) are a more comprehensive predictor of employee safety behaviour at work. Through work experience with Taylor Phillips Employment Assessments I was introduced to the world of psychometric assessment...


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