"To give or not to give – that is a difficult question. (Challenging assumptions regarding feedback of psychometric tests). This article will appear in the next issue of the SDR' published by The British Psychological Society

 

"Executive Assessment: measuring high level performance" - a comparison of the PfS(A) and GMA(A), June 2007

 

 

"Level B Full - is it worth it?" - this article appeared in the 'SDR' published by The British Psychological Society in May 2007

 

 

“Testing Times” – this article first appeared in the June 2006 issue of Edge, the membership magazine of the Institute of Leadership & Management’ www.i-l-m.com

 

"The Seven Year Old Surgeon"- published the Sunday Times December 2005

To give you some background, Akrit Jaswal is Indian and grew up in a rural village. He showed an exceptional gift for languages, quickly learning English as well as his native tongue, began devouring medical textbooks in English and performed his first operation at the age of 7. His knowledge grew such that local doctors began consulting him as their local expert. Needless to say this could not remain unnoticed and although he is still only 12 years-old, his talent has been recognised and he is now studying medicine at university.

Firecracker Films investigated, offered to film his story and invited him to come over to UK so that he could meet leading medical researchers. They also asked Team Focus to conduct some cognitive assessments. After being convinced by the producer that they would treat the boy with care and respect and that his interests would be placed before any concept of “good TV” we accepted to participate. Our safeguard is that we have, in writing, an agreement that the primary purpose of the assessment was to help the boy and his mother. As a result they were given a short report with the implications drawn from the results as they had a face-to-face feedback discussion. Most usefully, the inclusion of some personality measures proved to give some useful pointers for his future learning and career.

 

 

"University aptitude testing paper" - published in Assessment Matters

 

 

“William beats Harry in Army intelligence test” published by the Telegraph October 2005

 

“So you want to be an ENFJ” published by the SDR (Selection & Development Review) Oct 04 – June 05

 

“Leadership & Emotional Intelligence” published by Thames Valley Business Voice