Strengthscope and Insights – are they happy together?
What is Insights? An introduction The Insights Personality Profiler, like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based on the work of Carl Jung. While the MBTI talks about four pairs of preferences, Insights simplifies this still further, using a four-colour model to indicate personality preferences and associated behaviours. Insights is hugely popular in
How to get the career you want – ikigai x strengths = your killer career
A word on right now – the great resignation and a seller’s jobs market As I write, we’re at the start of January 2022. The start of a third year of pandemic market conditions, but with a distinct difference to the start of 2021, when people in the UK were happy to be holding
Goal setting for the year ahead – the strengths way
What is goal setting and why it’s important Goal setting involves putting together an action plan that helps you chart a path towards a particular goal. It’s important because repeated research has shown that setting goals can make a difference to motivation and performance in many areas of life. And the reason for bringing
The changing psychological contract post-pandemic and why you need to take it seriously
Defining the psychological contract – expectations, assumptions and promises ‘What is the psychological contract?’ I hear you ask. Well now, in short, the psychological contract is the unwritten, often unspoken, expectations that exist between an employee and their employer. So it’s not a written employment contract. No, it’s more difficult to pin down than
Beyond Hogan – the power of strengths
What is Hogan? Why is it so popular? The Hogan suite of psychometrics is very widely used in organisations across the world. The best known tools in the Hogan portfolio are what Hogan call their ‘bright side’ profiler (Hogan Personality Indicator or HPI) and their ‘dark side’ profiler (Hogan Development Survey or HDS). What
Strengthscope and Myers Briggs – friends or frenemies
Myers Briggs: still riding high but why? Myers Briggs or the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI, call it what you will, but the language and concepts of Myers Briggs are still the most widely recognised across the world when it comes to psychometric profiling and people getting a toehold in understanding their personality
Unleashing the power of positive psychology at Fleishman Hillard with Sian Walters
I am delighted to have a guest with me today who has been on the journey to creating a strengths-based organisation for many years now – Sian Walters, Associate Director of Talent Development at award-winning Communications agency, Fleishman Hillard. For the past six years, Sian and her colleagues at Fleishman have been hard at
Where did positive psychology go wrong?
Positive psychology and its attraction of criticism Like all new areas of scientific research and discussion, positive psychology is not without its critics. In this blog, I’d like to take you through some of the concerns raised by those who question whether positive psychology can deliver on its original promise – to scientifically understand
What is flow and how can you use it to manage stress
What is flow and why does it matter? In his book, ‘Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience’, Hungarian Psychologist, Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi outlined his theory that people are most happy when they are in a state of flow— a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation. Flow is
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