LATEST NEWS AND ARTICLES

Autumn 2009

I'll be giving an hour long talk on interviewing and appraisals at the SGS Forum, Chesford Grange in October and attending the Conference of the European Association of Test Publishers in Brussels at the beginning of October.

You can log onto Consulting Tools' blog via their web site here. I contribute short articles to it on a variety of HR and psychological issues.

September 2009

It's been a busy Summer and here are some of the highlights.

• Days of video shooting for Human Insight and Delta Partnership. You can access various segments on their sites.

• A major piece of customer research and positioning analysis for a consultancy carried out in partnership with Lois Dabrowski of blue-2 marketing.

• I was a discussant at a session on use of assessment data at the APA Conference in Toronto.

• The International Psychometric Society Conference in Cambridge was a huge success. For more information see here.

• A major piece of writing and development work on a 360 assessment system.

• A large number of new interviews and articles for the Psychologist magazine's Careers section.

• The ETPG Conference in Luzern Switzerland led to work on a major PR exercise. See here.

• IMPS 2009, the 16th International Meeting of the Psychometrics Society took place from July 20th to 24th at St. John's College Cambridge, hosted by the Psychometrics Centre at Cambridge University.

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I'm revising proofs of the first Volume of my long poem MESSENGERS and have finished drafting HELOISE, the musical that is being performed at the Castle Theatre in Wellingborough in November.

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I attended a service for BRENDA ROBINSON on Thursday March 5th.

I worked with Brenda for who knows how many years. We talk too easily about the people who are the 'soul' of a company but when you meet someone who is precisely that, you realise how special they are. Brenda ran the numbers at nfernelson for years. That was her job. Her 'vocation' was quite different. Simply, she made you want to go into work every morning, as a certain C. Ash said to me. Carole should know. She and Brenda together made the place live - not to mention the Christmas parties.

' Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got till it's gone' sang Joni Mitchell in Big Yellow Taxi. Exactly.

Those of us who were there on 5th will never forget Brenda's friendship and tender concern. Nor the fact that she was ALWAYS right !

Love, prayers and support to Jane, Chris and Ashlee.