Tuesday, 18th September 2018 at the Naval Club Speakers and Topics: Prof. Jill Flint-Taylor BSocSc (Hons), MSocSc, PhD Dr. Angelina Bennet BSc (Hons), MSc, DProf, C.Psychol Transitioning from Middle to Senior Management Any transition requires a level of insight into which attitudes and behaviours need to change and which may still be [...]
May 16, 2018 at the Naval Club Ben Thornton, Director PWC HR Consulting Practice Leads the HR Transformation proposition for PWC UK, including Technology In this interactive session Ben shared a number of recent PWC thought leadership papers including: Mega Trends – the 5 trends shaping modern life; Workforce of the [...]
Thursday, 8th March 2018 at the Naval Club. Diane Newell Managing Director of The OCM's Coaching Services business Diane led an informative and interactive session in the morning, helping us to explore what neuroscience is revealing about the working of the human mind and we debated: What are we learning from [...]
Tuesday, November 28th 2017 Speakers: Dr Hugh McCredie, Dr Rainer Kurz, Dr Nigel Guenole, James Bywater This very successful and well attended event looked at new concept psychometrics, new applications, new insights, new alternative models of personality, ability and competence, new methods of test administration and comparative validation studies. We [...]
Wednesday, 20th September 2017 This event explored the popular topic of team development and our two speakers brought us a slightly different take on working to improve the effectiveness of teams as a way of enriching and deepening our understanding of how people interact. Alan Robertson Business Psychologist, Director at [...]
Tuesday, 20th June 2017 Continuing TPF’s 2017 theme of psychological myth-busting, this event explored aspiration versus reality in testing in occupational personality. The topic was explored from the perspective of training provision, test standards, and ethical issues. The afternoon session included group work with attendees sharing testing dilemmas, followed by responses from [...]
Wednesday, 8th March 2017 Dr Hugh McCredie TPF Vice Chair and widely published researcher The topic of Hugh's talk was 'Adult Personality Change - Mission Impossible?' A discussion of members’ experiences took place in two groups, followed by an extensive review of published research, with a balance between arguments both for [...]
Tuesday, 22nd November 2016 New Frontiers - Tracking a potentially exciting route towards a Periodic Table of Personality Wendy Lord C.Psychol - Independent Consultant Wendy has enjoyed a distinguished career in psychometrics and is probably best known for overseeing the introduction of both 16PF5 and the NEO series of personality [...]
Wednesday, 21st September 2016 Dan Hughes and Peter Clarke Dan Hughes and Peter Clarke Product Director and Senior Consultant, JCA Global In the morning session, Dan and Peter, introduced attendees to the JCA framework of Emotional Intelligence compared to other established models of EI. JCA believe that the extent and [...]
Thursday, 23rd June 2016 Nigel Povah, MSc, C.Psychol As one of the leading Assessment Centre (AC) practitioners in the UK, Nigel talked about the many positive aspects of this often misunderstood methodology. His session covered what constitutes an AC and the numerous different applications for which they are used, with particular [...]