Hogan Talk: VALUE OF VALUES (CT 30 Jul and Jhb 31 Jul – FREE!)

Tagged as: Event, Hogan, Values

18 May 2012 Events
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It is an all-too-familiar story: A company hires a talented leader with a proven track record as its new top executive, ushering them out months later and hemorrhaging top-performing employees in the process. The problem: conflicting values.  Values are important motivators that have ramifications at every organizational level, ranging from turnover and team dynamics to [...]

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Man’s Best Friend / Man’s Best Therapist?

Tagged as: AAT

18 May 2012 Articles
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The Beginning of Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT)   I love the animals (two dogs and a parrot) in my family as much as I love the humans, some days more.  Recently a serious medical condition threatened the life of my Border Collie.  The thought of having to put my dog to sleep was pure agony.  [...]

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Measuring Competence – Competency Assessment Series (CAS)

Tagged as: assessment centres, CAS, competencies

9 May 2012 Product related
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Measuring competencies in order to predict performance has a long and rich history, dating back to the 1940’s with the selection of war officers. With the world of work becoming increasingly dependent on the quality of their human resources to remain competitive, so did the need to measure and develop competence over the years. The [...]

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About The FIRO-B® Instrument

Tagged as: assessment, Firo-b

9 May 2012 Product related
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Compiled by Lana van Staden “When people have sufficient self-awareness to have a healthy self-esteem, and when organisations promote an open, honest climate, much pain can be eliminated.” – Will Schutz (taken from Thompson, 2001)       FIRO-B Certification Training If you would like to learn more about the FIRO-B®, consider attending our training [...]

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Strengthscope™- Releasing the Energy

Tagged as: Strengths Partnership, Strengthscope

25 April 2012 News
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Jopie van Rooyen & Partners recently was fortunate to host James Brook from Strengths Partnership, a world leader in providing practical strengths-based solutions to translate individual, team, and organisational strengths into quantifiable success and sustainable people advantage. Strengths Partnership is based in the UK and rapidly expanding their footprint around the world. During his visit, [...]

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Local Product Update: CIP, SWSI, Creative Fingers, Readucate, Vita Stories and Story Minutes,

Tagged as: South African Products

18 April 2012 Product related
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Career Interest Profile (CIP v.3)  We are hard at work on a DVD where Prof Maree guides us through the process of reflective career counselling using two case studies to facilitate the learning.  The DVD will be launched soon, if you are interested, please complete this form and we will let you know when the [...]

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A brief history of the psychomotor assessment domain

Tagged as: assessments, history, psychomotor

12 April 2012 Articles
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By Paul Vorster (Jopie van Rooyen and Partners) Psychomotor abilities, skills, and constructs are measured for a number of practical purposes, including the understanding of neurological deficits, appropriate perception-stimuli interactions, safety, intelligence, emotional wellbeing and stress tolerance. Today, psychomotor assessments are also used in the field of biofeedback. Psychomotor abilities can be defined as the [...]

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Leadership Assessment Tools & Approaches

Tagged as: assessments, leadership

11 April 2012 Articles
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By Lauren Davis, JvR Consulting Psychologists “Organizations are like automobiles.  They don’t run themselves except downhill.  They need people to make them work – and not just any people but the right people.  The effectiveness of an organization’s employees determines how the organizational machine will perform.  In this process, the leader is the one who [...]

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MBTI Accredited? Fluent in French, German or Portuguese?

Tagged as: Africa, certification, MBTI, training

5 March 2012 Product related
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On occasions, JvR has opportunities to provide training around Africa and therefore require assistance from professional fluent in various languages. If you are MBTI® accredited and fluent in French, German or Portuguese, please contact Sandra (Sandra@jvrafrica.co.za/ 011 781 3705) urgently to discuss possible training opportunities.

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CAS upgrades in process: Changes in the response scale, from 5 to 4

Tagged as: assessment centre, CAS, Competency assessment series

24 February 2012 Product related
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We are in the process of upgrading and improving our Assessment Centre product, the Competency Assessment Series (CAS). We are changing the number of response categories from 5 to 4. Here is some of the reasoning behind this change: "The choice of response scale is a critical aspect of psychological assessments which is often underemphasised [...]

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Ed•u•tain•ment

Tagged as: culturewise, education, edutainment, Leaders in action, play

22 February 2012 Product related
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Noun 1. – entertainment that is intended to be educational 2. – the act of learning through a medium that both educates and entertains. entertainment, amusement – an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention The term Edutainment has been around a long time – thought to have been coined by The Walt [...]

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Dumelang Botswana!

Tagged as: Africa, Certification training, MBTI

22 February 2012 News
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As JvR’s distribution territory expands further into Africa, we feel privileged as we take to the road – heading north to Tlokweng border post into Gaborone – for our first MBTI® Certification Programme in Botswana. The trainers, Kathy (ENFJ) and Fatima (ISTJ), were excited to meet the training delegates and eager to guide the group [...]

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Do You Assess Train Drivers?

Tagged as: conductors, Schuhfried, train drivers, VTS

21 February 2012 Product related
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JVR in alliance with Schuhfried is collecting South African data to do research on the Vienna Test System Rail Battery. There is an opportunity for organisations that assess train drivers to participate in this research. You will be able to have the VTS Rail Battery placed for a limited time period (1 – 2 months) [...]

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History of Personality Assessments in the Workplace

Tagged as: history, personality

21 February 2012 Articles
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Do you ever get asked: “Why personality?”  Is cognitive ability, experience and having a formal qualification not all there is to job performance and job fit?  I’m afraid not. Within the context of our ever changing workplace, which to an extent can be characterised by unrelenting global competition; technology; virtual teams and continuous change, we [...]

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To our EQ clients – Be part of our EQ-i 2.0 normative research and receive free reports

Tagged as: EQ-i, EQ2.0

15 February 2012 Product related
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To all our EQ-i and EQ-i 2.0 users We have gone “live” with the South African data collection for the EQ-i 2.0. Our research team has been liaising with Multi-Health Systems Inc. (MHS) in setting up the system for research and we are excited to share this system with you. We need to collect data [...]

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Join us at the 2012 ASTD Conference [14-16 March]

7 February 2012 Events
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JvR will be attending the 8th Annual International ASTD Conference in the Drakensberg from 14 – 16 March 2012. Click here to see the flyer. Two of our colleagues, Renate Scherrer and Leigh Wallace, will also be presenting at this conference on Leadership Development in Africa and Leadership Derailment. Please register on the ASTD site [...]

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NEW! HOGAN VALUES REPORT

3 February 2012 Product related
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VALUES – the core motives, interests, and beliefs that determine what we desire and strive to attain – have tremendous consequence in terms of what type of work we find fulfilling, how we operate within a team, and how we fit into an organization. As the international authority in personality assessment and consulting, Hogan has [...]

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Managing work related stress

Tagged as: stress, work-stress

9 December 2011 Articles
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By: Erise Havenga & Willie van Tonder Photo by pat00139 The workforce of the modern organisation is becoming more diverse, which in turn results in more complex problems and situations coming forth. Role conflict, work overload and role confusion along with mutual trust is just some of the problems that tend to arise. The manager of [...]

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Updates On Our South African Offering

Tagged as: South African Assessments

9 December 2011 Product related
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There is lots of exciting activity on our South African Product Range.  Here are some of the highlights: We are working on our very own South African platform – the JvR Compass. More info to follow soon. The ‘look and feel’ of the Study Orientation for Mathematics (SOM) have been improved. The TriMaths is now available [...]

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Christmas Special On New VTS Panels

Tagged as: Schuhfried, Vienna Test System, VTS

7 December 2011 Product related
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This special offer is up until the end of December! 10% price off + free update on VTS or CPS + brandnew free USB Headphones The new panel offers a number of new assets: Hidden USB plug for the dongle to prevent it from loss or theft New technology on the golden „rest key“ – [...]

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