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The PPM ability test series is a flexible portfolio of nine ability tests. Since last week, new versions of the online output reports have been released and are now available to download from within your TA online account. Example reports from several of the tests are provided below: 

• PPM – Numerical Reasoning Sample Report
• PPM – Verbal Comprehension Sample Report
• PPM – Spatial Ability – Sample Report

New test completions will automatically use this revised report format and the old style will no longer be available. Existing PPM users will also be able to render a report, already completed, in the new/updated format.

If you’re an existing or new customer and would like to discuss the changes with a member of our team, please call us on 01865 402 900. To begin using the test series, please click here to register for a free online account.

We hope you like the new report format and welcome any feedback.

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Learn how to administer, interpret and feedback scores on Hogrefe’s cutting edge tool for measuring the risk of discriminatory behaviour. Implicitly is the first commercial test to not only measure social bias but to link it to real world discriminatory behaviours. This one-day course allows users from all levels, from entry level HR professionals to Psychologist and Coaches, to become accredited in the use of Implicitly.

Future 2012 dates include:

• 20^th of January
• 20^th April
• 20^th July
• 30^th November

Course fee – £240 +VAT per person.

To book, please contact our customer support team on 01865 402 900 or complete our contact us form.

* Discounts available on multiple course bookings

We are pleased to be offering an additional NEO PI-R training course this January. 

New and future 2011/12 training dates now include:

• 7th December 2011 (Fully booked)
• 11th January 2012
• 1st March 2012
• 13th June 2012
• 19th September 2012

Rates – £250 + VAT per person, was £480 (includes all course materials, NEO manual and refreshments + lunch).

Location – Hogrefe Oxford Offices (Oxford Business Park South).

*Available to those who are already BPS Level B trained.

Please contact customer support on 01865 402 900 to reserve your seat.

An additional 10% discount is also available on multiple bookings.

Use promo code PSI10%, at the checkout, to receive 10% off Parenting Stress Index (PSI) kits. Offer expires 30/11/11. 

The PSI is designed for the early identification of parenting and family characteristics that fail to promote normal development and functioning in children, children with behavioural and emotional problems and parents who are at risk of dysfunctional parenting. It can be used with parents of children as young as 1 month.

One in six (16%) workers feel they have been discriminated against when applying for a job or promotion at some point in their career because of favouritism in the workplace according to a survey we carried out earlier in the year.

The findings from the research back up a little-known theory that there is a tendency for people to recruit workers who bear similarities to themselves or to others in their company and this is done, for the most part, unconsciously. 

These workshops will provide an in-depth look at unconscious bias. The session will be led by Harish Bhayani, Principal, PRM Diversity Consultants who provide specialist diversity support for organisations and individuals in all sectors and Hannah Markson, Psychologist, Hogrefe who publish more than 700 scientifically developed, objective psychometric tools for business, health and education professionals.

The course will help you measure and manage unconscious bias so that doesn’t affect your organisational performance.  Areas of vulnerability include, for example, diversity/equality/inclusion initiatives, recruitment, employee development, talent management, marketing, sales, procurement, day to day operations in all departments, leadership, governance, compliance, strategic decision-making, learning & development, legal and policy development.   

The session will cover:

• What unconscious bias is
• How it undermines performance
• Vulnerabilities for your organisation
• Best practice approaches
• Implicitly – how organisations are using this psychometric tool to measure the likelihood of discriminatory behaviour as a result of unconscious bias
• Organisational benefits of measuring and managing unconscious bias

Cost: £99+VAT for EFA/EFB members £175+VAT non members

BOOK NOW (Places are limited): 

Start time: 10am-2pm or 1pm-5pm including lunch 1pm-2pm for both groups

1st November (Old Street, London)/ 2nd November (BT offices, St Paul’s, London)

Spectra – A structured program for early childhood therapists working with autism. Spectra aims to teach children many of the pivotal skills that are necessary for independent living and ultimately integrate them in mainstream school.  It is suitable for Psychologists, Speech & Language therapists, Early Childhood Educators, Special Needs teachers & Parents with children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Success & Dyslexia - A program designed to be incorporated into the curriculum and the culture of the school.  It focuses on three areas of functioning: coping awareness, positive thinking & assertiveness. The book with accompany CD has been tailored for students in the upper primary years.

Making sense of Asperger’s - A Story for Children is a practical resource that is both insightful and useful. It invites children to contribute to the discussion about Asperger’s syndrome. This book will appeal to individual students as a self-help material that provides practical tips and solutions, to Counsellors, Parents and is also designed to be used in a classroom.

Please contact Elena Georgakopoulou for more information and to pre order.

Use the promo code WRIT2011 at the checkout to get 10% off  the WRAT4 introductory kit and WRIT complete kit. Offer available until the end of October.

Alternatively, contact our customer support team on 01865 402 900 to place your order over the phone.

The Life and Career Navigator (LCN)provides users with a comprehensive set of navigation aids (also referred to as ‘modules’), to assist them in steering a suitable course towards the job and life situation that fits their values, personality, interests, talents and needs as closely as possible. Working through the Navigator will enhance the users self-insight. It will also increase their knowledge and awareness of work life, self-employment possibilities, employability and the market for their skills.

LCN is suitable for those:

• Experiencing a job move; voluntary or forced.
• Preparing for appraisals or personal development planning.  
• Wishing to get more out of their current job by doing it differently or expanding their responsibilities.
• Wanting to prepare for discussions on negotiating changes in their current role.
• Requiring assistance in a radical change in career direction.
• That feel the need to review ‘where they are’ and ‘where they are going’.

Users have the option to try the initial questionnaire ‘My life and career – how am I doing?’ for free.  This is a diagnostic questionnaire that identifies which modules within LCN would be most useful when assessing their career.

After purchasing LCN for £90, usual price £120 (special introductory offer), users will receive the hard copy LCN workbook that is used in conjunction with the online modules.

Click here to add your details (2 minutes max) and then access your free diagnostic questionnaire.

For more information or to place an order, please contact our customer support team on 01865 402 900.

Hogrefe are pleased to be exhibiting at the following clinical psychology conferences:

British Association for Community Child Health (BACCHS)
11-12th October 2011
Annual Scientific Meeting
Aston Business School & Conference Centre.
Birmingham
www.bacch.org.uk

BPS: Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference
1-2nd December 2011
Holiday Inn Hotel, Birmingham City Center
www.dcpconference.co.uk

If you are attending either conference please stop by our stand to speak with one of our product specialists.

We are pleased to offer a new one day NEO PI-R training course option which offers you a £230 + VAT saving off our standard two day course, plus less time out of the office.

The new one day NEO PI-R qualification course has been carefully revised to ensure all the important elements continue to be covered so that delegates leave feeling comfortable with interpreting and feeding back NEO PI-R test scores.

Upcoming 2011/12 training dates include:

• 8th November 2011
• 7th December 2011
• 1st March 2012
• 13th June 2012
• 19th September 2012

Rates – £250 + VAT per person, was £480 (includes all course materials, NEO manual and refreshments + lunch).

Location – Hogrefe Oxford Offices (Oxford Business Park South).

*Available to those who are already BPS Level B trained.

Please contact customer support on 01865 402 900 to reserve your seat.

An additional 10% discount is also available on multiple bookings.