New Year, New Career?
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…
A message from our New Chair Alex Forsythe
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…
Event Report: ABP Conference 2020
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…
What is the best career test?
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.…
Did Covid 19 change who we are?
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…
Event Report: Using Coaching to Identify Best Practice in Resilience
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…
Event Report: Three simple (but not necessarily easy) steps to address Emotionally Toxic Cultures
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…
Interview with Dr. Michelle Hunter-Hill: Training and Readiness
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…
Event Report: From Shakespeare to Gogglebox
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…
Event Report: What can Business Psychology learn from Donald Trump and the Dark Arts of Coercive Control?
The sinister art of coercive control is driven largely by narcissists who exploit it, human vulnerabilities of those who are controlled by it, and is fuelled by an explosion of information, disinformation and an increasing use of tools in deception,…
Event Report: Applying the Big 5 and Emotional Intelligence to Improving Workplace Cultures
Dan Hill, President, Sensory Logic Inc., Minnesota US Applying the Big 5 and Emotional Intelligence to Improving Workplace Cultures 8th September 2020 Most organisations with a company culture which fails to deliver on its customer and stakeholder expectations will…
Notice to Members on Annual General Meeting and Management Board Elections 2020
Following current government guidelines, we are still unable to hold a face to face AGM, but we are pleased to be able to now hold this year’s AGM virtually via Zoom on Tuesday 29 September at 6.00pm. This change to the norm…