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
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,
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
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
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
My name’s Dr Paul Brewerton, the strengths guy, Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Doctor of Organisational Psychology. And I am delighted to be joined today by Anthony Davis, a counsellor and psychotherapist who has a number of specialisms, including working with mental illness in the
Why do we need a model of well-being and why is this one good? Well-being is a central idea in positive psychology. If positive psychology is defined as the study of ‘what goes right in life’ or of people ‘flourishing’ or achieving levels of
Introduction – what is positive psychology? I first came across Positive Psychology when I was asked to chair a session at a HR conference in the early noughties with a speaker describing themselves as a ‘positive psychologist’ – he was also a columnist for
How do organisations and the people within them, build their capacity to cope with change, shocks and uncertainty at the same time as dealing with increasing competitive and regulatory pressures that require a higher level of output to even stay in the game? Evidence is
Paul: Hi there, Dr Paul Brewerton here, the strengths guy, Dr of Organisational Psychology, Founder and Chair of Strengthscope and also, you may or may not know, Strategic Director of leadership and culture change practice You Collective, which launched formally this month – September
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