How to read a McQuaig Graph

Click play below or simply send this link – http://youtu.be/UaNX7Udaals – to all users of The McQuaig Psychometric System who would like to understand how to read a McQuaig Word Survey Graph. Read more

Match psychometric assessment with competencies

An old nursing quote: ”There are two types of nurses. Those that can communicate with conscious human beings  - they’re ward nurses…  &  those that can’t – they’re theatre nurses!”

The quote is instructional when it comes to the task of placing the right people in the right jobs. Read more

Business bang for training $buck£ spent

The Holst Group faculty members carried out a ROI evaluation on a major programme delivered to high level sales people.

The results were examined  independently by The Work Foundation who commented:

‘This was an exceptional programme design when few can prove, as this programme does, that full evaluation has been designed into the training events up to and including Kirkpatrick’s Level IV.’

Where high level sales skills training such as ‘selling in the board room’,‘coaching’ & ‘mentoring’  etc. are involved and where there is a long sales cycle such evaluation is rarely achieved as in this case.
This particular programme evaluation finally stated that in the opinion of the delegates they were able to say that £25M extra net revenue was generated by their utilisation of the training received.

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Investors in People and The McQuaig System

The Investors in People standard is based on three key principles: Read more

3 Step Interviewer’s Checklist

This easy-to-use checklist is taken from the Job Fit (Interview Guide) by The McQuaig Psychometric System™

1. Before the Interview
•  Review job requirements, the candidate’s resume and psychometric profile (the McQuaig Word Survey®)
•  Telephone screen the candidate to clarify skills and fit.
•  Review the interview questions and get an understanding of what to expect in the responses. Read more

Investors in People & Training – part 2

Having started to put into place your coaching strategy – strategy being a bit of a strong word for ‘just doing it’,  we can retrospectively call it a strategy to impress everybody – training needs may now start to emerge. Read more

Investors in People & Training

TRAINING – appropriate deployment contributing to the bottom line.
TRAINING – appropriate deployment contributing to Investors in People (IiP)

… they are of course the same thing – BUT in that order. Read more