Emotional Intelligence Assessment & Development

Extensive organisational research shows that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is twice as important as any other factor in predicting outstanding employees and that EI counts for more than 85% of outstanding performance in top leaders. Therefore, EI is becoming a crucial aspect of organisations' selection decisions. Thankfully, EI can be developed and hence, it is also becoming a vital element of development programmes.

Emotional Intelligence is defined as "the capacity for recognising our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves and for managing emotions within ourselves and with others." (Goleman, 1995) It includes: Self Awareness, Self Regulation, Self Motivation, Social Awareness and Social Skills.

Business Minds have adopted this leading-edge research in the assessment and development of candidates, to help organisations make crucial selection decisions and develop existing staff to their greatest potential. Our consultants deploy a range of EI instruments to best suit your particular needs.

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Strategic Alignment

Strategic Alignment is an organisational development technique. It is based on a model that provides a way of looking at an entire organisation, and is founded on the premise that in order to be effective, an organisation has to have a high degree of alignment between:

• Customers / Operating Environment

• Strategy

• Culture

• Leadership Style

Business Minds will help your organisation achieve long-term, sustainable competitive advantage, in your chosen operating environment, by strategically aligning the facets of your business. Through Strategic Alignment, Business Minds enables your organisation to:

• Identify, clarify and describe the customers and the environment(s) in which it conducts business

• Develop strategies for meeting customer needs

• Describe and develop the organisational culture

• Assess and develop management style

• Develop strategic thinking skills and a corporate vision

• Implement change management

Strategic Alignment uses a typing framework, based on Jung's work, which also underlies the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), to classify your organisation and bring greater understanding and control.

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Assessment Consultancy

When you are making recruitment selection, promotion or career decisions, an objective, independent viewpoint is vital.

Business Minds has extensive experience of providing expert advice on internal and external appointments, career moves and the structure of management teams.  We conduct several hundred assessments each year, ranging from entry level jobs, to Director and Chief Executive positions. 

Competency Profiling

The identification of the competencies or characteristics required for success in a particular work role, department or management level underpins a range of human resource activities.

Competencies and Human Resource Processes

Individual Assessment Projects

We have worked closely, over a number of years with a range of Executive Search and Selection Companies conducting senior management and director selection assignments.  At this level the selection of the right individual can be critical to an organisation's success, which is why Business Minds psychologists spend time with our clients, determining their requirements in detail, before designing assessment procedures tailored to specific needs.

Group Assessments

When organisations are restructuring or recruiting large numbers of staff, it is often necessary to conduct group assessments or design appropriate screening methods.  Our group assessment service can assist organisations in developing suitable assessment techniques.

Assessment and Development Centres

Many organisations already use Assessment Centres for graduate selection or management development purposes, but a growing number are exploring their ability to identify potential among blue-collar and shop-floor employees.

Independent Validation Service

Organisations who use psychometric tests extensively are increasingly having to justify their use both from a legal and financial perspective.   Business Minds offer an Independent Test Validation service to help organisations answer the two key questions all test users should be asking.

• Are the tests we use of genuine financial benefit?
• Do they comply with current equal opportunity guidelines and legislation?

Occupational Psychology Consultancy

Our aim as occupational psychologists is not only to assist organisations in getting the best from their staff, but to help staff get the best from their jobs.  With such a broad remit our consultancy work can be quite varied and diverse, addressing a wide range of "people at work" issues.