13th January 2021 Can personality change throughout one’s career and if so, can it be influenced by the individual? This was the question asked by Dr. Darren Stevens in a fascinating and controversial presentation at the first ABP webinar…
With people changing jobs more than ever before and Covid19 forcing many people to a career re-think, we thought it helpful to examine the market for career aptitude tests. A quick Google search of “career tests” and you get overwhelmed…
Dear members I am honoured to be the new Chair of the Association for Business Psychology at the start of what will be challenging, but I hope a better year for all of us. With the announcement that a…
Theme: 20 Years of the ABP: Looking back and Thinking Forward Announcing the opening of the conference, the Chair Ben Williams summed up the theme of the conference: Looking Back and Thinking Forward.. The 2020 conference team faced seemingly…
Career aptitude tests are popular. A quick Google search of “career tests” and you get overwhelmed by the results which appear. You can waste a huge amount of time and energy taking these tests, some of which are very disappointing.…
Presentation by Dr Stewart Desson on research undertaken by Dr Stewart Desson of Lumina Learning, Dr. Joana Suta, and Dr. Tatiana Schifferle Rowson. 4414 people completed a 20-30 minute questionnaire from all over the world, with the objective of a…
Dr. Jodi O'Dell Engage Coach Using Coaching to Identify Best Practice in Resilience 20th October 2020 Dr Jodi O'Dell has built up a niche business in Coaching Psychology and a loyal and increasing client base by focusing on an…
Phil Willcox Emotion at Work 10th November 2020 Be Heard Safe Space Move On Reciting a poem on workspace, he concluded in reference to an empathetic workspace sympathetic to his needs “If I should have a workspace, that’s for…
Dr Michelle Hunter-Hill - Head of People and Chartered Principal Psychologist Dr Michelle Hunter-Hill, Chartered Psychologist and Programme Convener for Human Resource Management at Roehampton University Business school, in discussion with Dr Joana Suta, evaluates the role, correlation and importance…
Roy Childs - Team Focus 15th September 2020 This talk challenges some of the basic assumptions made by mainstream psychometrics when applied to self-report questionnaires. Some key questions that it addresses are: what is the real nature of the…
