If you’re a coach or people practitioner who is looking for fresh ways to develop your teams and leaders, you might have thought about ways you can use profiling tools to enhance your practice. There are lots of personalty and behavioural assessment tools out there. How on earth do you select the best one?

I’ve got a Master’s in Research Methods and Psychological Assessment, spent 20 years working with psychological assessments in clinical research AND work as a Research and Coaching Psychologist. So I MUST know the answer to this, right? Right?

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We hear A LOT about leadership in professional development. A quick google will give you tons of advice on how to be a great leader, give you examples of leadership tropes we should aspire to, and even direct you to a pretty comprehensive evidence base around attributes of effective leaders. But are we relying too heavily on creating these ellusive ‘best-in-class’ leaders? Or is our heavy focus on leadership development causing us blind spots in our thinking about how to best address the many challenges we face in the workplace today?

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Are you a micro-manger or a champion delegator? Someone who is always there to provide support or someone who promotes independence and autonomy? Common questions in the professional development environment, but they might not be as helpful as they first seem…. There are a few problems with concepts like ‘micro-management’, ‘delegation’, ‘support’ and ‘autonomy’: –…

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