Succession Planning or Intentional Pathway Planning?
Many organisations have been going through a period of considerable disruption caused by Covid-19 and Brexit. In many cases this has forced organisational change at an unprecedented pace.
Transforming Future Leadership Styles
While the Covid-19 pandemic is exacting its toll on business and the economy, forward-looking organisations are moving past crisis management and positioning themselves to leap ahead when the [...]
Results of the OPG’s Third Annual Survey on Psychometric Assessment (Part 2)
The use of psychometric assessment is not limited to assessing leadership and high potential staff. Over 60% of respondents use assessment for assessing supervisors and below. 19% of those [...]
Results of the OPG’s Third Annual Survey on Psychometric Assessment
In October 2020 The OPG carried out a survey of 113 senior managers and directors in Human Resources and other senior executives to understand how people view and gain value from psychometric [...]
Why Retaining and Developing Core Skills is Key to Future Success
During lockdown, tough decisions had to be made and leaders needed to roll up their sleeves and take greater control of their organisations, but post-lockdown, leaders need to move from crisis [...]
How to Ensure Your NHS Leaders and Managers Can Lead Effectively
Recruiting and promoting nursing, administrative and leadership staff into senior positions may seem straightforward. After all, they have the `craft skills’ for the role, but are their [...]
Identifying High Potentials in a Saturated Candidate Market
With large numbers of candidates being on the market many recruiters assume that hiring the right candidate will be relatively easy. With pressure to reduce hiring costs also being a concern, [...]
Leading in a Crisis: Are Your Leaders Up To It?
Leadership is about engaging the workforce and wider stakeholders, achieving the best possible outcome, and gaining focus on how to achieve it. The OPG has assessment during various crises which [...]
Do Your Managers and Leaders Need Help to Behave Appropriately in the “New Normal”?
The Occupational Psychology Group (The OPG) has seen a rapidly increasing demand for executive coaching in the past few weeks because of growing concerns that leaders and managers are sometimes [...]
Understanding the Capability of Your Team is Critical to your Business Performance
Capability reviews can be an important part of your organisation's performance management strategy during the best of times but even more so when your organisation is looking to improve [...]
