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Has anyone used any type of personality profiling in heath & safety training
We are looking at doing some training on how peoples personality could have an influence on how some people take more risks than others
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John, although we have done such profiling in the past we haven't applied or used this specifically for health and safety purposes. It will be interesting to hear if others have and if so, how they used the information. Good luck,
Phil - ENFP!
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Johng
There are at least 4 well-researched personality measurement instruments available for the purpose you state. Which is most suitable depends on your objectives, your budget (not just for training but for licensing and unit cost of the instrument) and on the skills of the interpreters
Training in three of them is available in the UK, to standards specified by the Psychological Testing Centre of the British Psychological Society.
If you want detailed information, you can reach me at 020 8654 0808.
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Johng
In addition to the level of measureable return on your investment, a vital reason for learning to use a personality measure reasonably well validated for the purpose you have in mind is that unless you do so, your employer may well find themselves on the receiving end of a claim for damages for indirect discrimination, for which there is in principle no upper limit and ignorance is not an admissible 'excuse'.
This is simply to advocate competent choice, as well as usage, of valuable tools which can have very powerful effects, either positively or negatively, on individuals measured.
It's also worth adding that the more you understand the underlying research, the more cost-effectively you can figure out how to get co-operation from management in your use of well-selected tools. In my experience, this means that the direct cost for administering, processing and providing standardised feedback can be reduced by 60+% if you go about the task of selection and use wisely.
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My experiences of these (albiet some time ago) lead me to believe they are peddled by modern snake oil merchants.
To me a science can predict something in black & white, not something thats slightly better than the outcome of totally random answers.
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Some of these tools can be good and useful but you need to proactively plan properly to deal with any outcomes; especially negative ones, and as its a specialist area I advise that you get the appropriate support as your info out is only as good as your info in
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Walker, I have been through several of these and found that whilst they are not utterly accurate on all points, they are far better at getting close to the true personality than random assignment could ever be.
It is not snake oil when done correctly - the latest exercise went through 30+ people and was very insightful and simple to corroborate on the traits easier to spot with the naked brain.
Word of caution though, it can lead to people being treated as stereotypes based on their dominant trait rather than their current disposition - none of these techniques take into account recent history on an ongoing basis. It can be tiresome to always be referred to as one type when really you are a complex person.
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Tabs,
Your third sentence simply confirms my prejudices.
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walker wrote:Tabs,
Your third sentence simply confirms my prejudices.
:-) then I think your prejudice should be against those who lock onto single bits of the information provided - not the process of profiling. It's akin to saying health and safety is just a burden, when really it's the wrongful application of the subject which is the problem :-)
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