Learning Resources

Personality Test - BBC

The Big Personality Test by the BBC is available on line and is based on Myers Briggs. Your thoughts about the profile you generate is a good starting point for a development discussion:

Take the BBC on line Personality Test.●●●●●●

Many of the personality tests are based on Myers Briggs. You can start to discover your Myers Briggs type and get a free overview report. The Team Technology website gives more information. This includes a test to assess if your marriage partner is the right "type"!

Choose a  test

Preparation for Work

This on-line programme will help work placement students prepare for their placement with you and will make the placement a positive learning experience for all  ●●●●●●

If you have had enough of all the personality tests you can try this IQ which is designed to see if your salary matches your IQ.●●●●●●

Now Discover Your Strengths - Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton

Based on years of research by the Gallup organisation this book introduces a strength based assessment which you can access using a unique number in each copy of the book.The book explore how using a strength based approach could transform approaches to recruitment, assessment and development of employees by focusing on key strengths and how to maximise these for business benefit.

From Good to Great- by Jim Collins

This book is the result of 5 years of research to find out how to get your company from being a good overall performer to being one of the best. Some of the key elements of an great companies are their ability to focus on what they do really well. Great companies recruit great people and then trust them to get on with their jobs and take the company in the right direction

This is the classic book on influence and has been well researched. It looks at some of the classic techniques used to influence us including:

• Social Proof
• Reciprocation
• Commitment and Consistency

Growing Your Own Heroes- John Oliver and Clive Memmott

This books is focused a method of employee engagement and takes you through a step by step process to established methods to engage with employees. It includes some helpful questionnaires to use with employees to gauge current levels. It also gives advice on why "employee of the month" is such a bad idea and why every company should have a photographer handy..

Appreciative Inquiry in action