Making the Most of Your Work Teams

  Teams are an essential component of today’s workplace. Successful work teams achieve levels of  innovation and productivity exceeding those of individual employees. This is possible because of both the pooled knowledge and experiences of team members, and evolving team dynamics that drive problem-solving and performance approaches. But developing a successful team can be a […]

Selecting for Creativity: Building an Innovative Workforce

The benefits of creativity at work – Why build an innovative workforce? The value of creativity and an innovative workforce has been increasingly recognised in recent years. Companies need to work harder to stay competitive, and to gain the confidence of more demanding consumers. Creative thinkers are an asset to companies as they excel at […]

16pf Report Options – Make the Most of Personality Profiles

  The 16pf is a renown in-depth measure of personality. It offers evaluation of wide-ranging, broad factors (similar to the Big 5), while also breaking down contributions from more specific, unitary primary factors. This combination covers the full spectrum of traits making up personality. The depth of analysis provided through this measure holds implications for […]

Ability Testing: Does Practice make Perfect?

  One of our clients, Rachel, recently shared the excellent news that she had received very high scores on her verbal and numerical reasoning tests. She will be progressing to the next stage of selection. Over the past several months Rachel did a lot of preparation and practice work prior to ability testing. It seems to […]

Turn Work-life Resolutions into Reality

  Did you make any work-life resolutions this year? Are you doing what you set out to do, or have plans slipped by the wayside? The holidays are over, we’ve survived Blue Monday.  Now is a great time to  focus on how you’ll bring about changes related to work-life that can have a positive impact […]

Top 5 Posts of 2016 – The Year in Review

  As the year closes, we’d like to thank each and every one of you for reading our newsletter and our blog. We look forward to providing you with more valuable information and updates on psychometric testing and organizational psychology in 2017. Here’s a collection of Selection by Design’s top blog posts from 2016 in […]