EXPERT Psychology Profiler  | EXPERT Personality Profiling
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        EXPERT
        Psychological Profiler
        For Business TM
        Best personality profiler
           
        FAQs Page
          • What does it do (broadly)?
          • What does it measure, exactly?
          • What staff categories is EXPERT suitable for?
          • What about reliability & validity?  (i.e. Technical information)
          • Who else uses the EXPERT Psychological Profiler for Business?
          • How does it compare with other tools, like MBTI, OPQ & DISC?
          • What training do I need?
          • Are there annual license fees?
          • Can I test it out?
          • What does it cost?
          • How can I purchase 'EXPERT'?
           
          "What does it do (broadly)?"
          EXPERT enables you to:
          • Understand job applicants, in detail, before you employ them.
          • Minimize costly & stressful recruitment errors, by knowing which tasks a person is naturally suited to.
          • Quickly & easily match applicant profiles with the 'ideal' profile for a particular job.
          • Know how to coach, manage & motivate different personalities according to their individual needs.
          • Identify the reasons for under-performance, so that you can target your developmental support with impressive precision & insight.
          • See the gaps, clashes, complementarities and 'cloning' in teams, so that you can tailor team-building/awareness workshops.
          • Help your senior staff to understand their job-related strengths & development needs, using the economical & beautifully structured 360-degree profiler.

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          This serves to dramatically increase productivity, improve harmony, boost learning and enhance your commercial performance.  EXPERT achieves this at remarkably low cost per head.
           
          EXPERT does not:
            • Assess intellectual aptitudes directly.  These should be tested separately if required, and integrated with your EXPERT data.


            (What's the difference? Personality/behavioral style is like the 'software' that a person is running. Their intellect is what energises or powers it - their 'processor', 'hard drive' and 'RAM'. Great software runs rather slowly on under-powered hardware, is easily overloaded and crashes now and again.  On the other hand, no amount of fancy hardware (intellect) will help if the software (personality) is badly designed or full of bugs.  In fact, it tends to cause a lot more trouble, louder and faster!  For maximum success you need both the intellectual aptitudes and personality / behavioral style appropriate for the role in question.  However the line between 'inclination' and 'ability' is a fuzzy one - you will learn all about how this works when you attend Training.)


          "What does it measure, exactly?"
          EXPERT gives you 5 types of information:

            Personality & Behavioral Tendencies
            •     Work & Thinking Style  -  Ambitious, Competitive, Diligent, Organized, Perfectionistic, Decisive, Creative, Questioning, Learning Oriented, Future Focused, Philosophical, Quantitative, Technical, Visual & Physical.
                                                                    
            •     Social/Interpersonal Style  -  Self-confident, Jovial, Soft-hearted, Forceful, Independent, Consultative, Psychological, Self-promotional & Persuasive.
                                                                          
            •     Emotional Style  -  Worrying, Relaxed, Positive, Sensitive & Restrained.

            •     Impression Management or 'faking'  - one scale.
               
              This is the information that Corporate Psychologists use to analyze how naturally a person's current style supports the tasks they are required to perform.  If you choose to attend an EXPERT Training Course you will be taught how to perform analyses like these yourself.  Plus.....


            'Natural Fit' with Job Functions (= 'Competencies')

              If you do not wish to attend training, or would prefer a short-cut, EXPERT has made things very easy for you. It automatically computes a person's compatibility with the 18 key job tasks that you need your staff and business leaders to be good at.  It tells you whether the person has 'Little or no natural fit', through to 'Good' or 'Extreme natural fit' with:
                • Charismatic Leadership
                • Directive Leadership
                • Entrepreneurial / Visionary Thinking
                • Strategic / Commercial Judgment
                • Project Management / Implementation
                • Developing Others
                • Conflict Management
                • Negotiating
                • Political Punch
                • Technical / Scientific Analysis
                • Marketing
                • Selling
                • Customer Service
                • Administration
                • Team Playing
                • Dynamism
                • Stress Resistance
                • Emotional Intelligence


            Team Profiles

              Perhaps you want to bring someone new into an existing team, or you'd like to run a fun, awareness-building and tolerance-enhancing team building session?  EXPERT will plot your whole team's profiles automatically on an overhead transparency, so that you can identify group themes, strengths, weaknesses, gaps, complementarities, clashes and 'clones'.


            360-degree Feedback Profiles

              When leaders or professional staff want to develop their effectiveness, you can help them to build their self-awareness using 'multi-rater feedback'.  EXPERT enables you to gather feedback from bosses, peers and direct reports.  It automatically computes a combined, multicolored profile, that shows you the differing (anonymous) perspectives of the Target Person's colleagues. EXPERT's 360-degree profiler produces particularly smooth and consistent results.


            Job Profiles

              If you are unsure about how personality/behavior influences performance in a particular job, EXPERT enables you to automatically compute an 'ideal' profile for the job.


          "What staff categories is EXPERT suitable for?
          EXPERT is designed for:

          • Senior Executives & Managers
          • Professional / Technical staff
          • Sales & Customer Service staff
          • Administrators
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            EXPERT is not really suitable for process-level/manual operatives (unless at least semi-skilled and with sound literacy).  It has not been tested on these staff categories.


          "What about reliability & validity?" (i.e. Technical Information)
          Technically-minded folk will be very pleased to know that the EXPERTTM has

            taken over 4 years to develop and trial.  Global specialists in the field have used modern psychometric design techniques, prioritizing the strictest standards of reliability, validity and business relevance.  At the same time, the user interface emphasizes user-friendliness and accessibility.   Development was completed in mid-2001, and the tool became publicly available in late 2001.

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          "Who Uses the EXPERT Psychological Profiler for Business?"
          The following organizations have used, or regularly use EXPERT in their recruitment and/or coaching and executive development processes:

             
            Royal & SunAlliance, AMP, Harvey Norman, Rebel Sport, Corporate Edge Consultants, Forum Corporation, Wattyl Paints, Professional Teacher Placements and others.

          "How does it compare with tools like MBTI, OPQ & DISC?"
          Of these three the EXPERT is closest to the OPQ, in so far as it is a

            professional tool designed for occupational use.  However, EXPERT:
            • Is 15 years newer(!)
            • Is pragmatic & user-friendly
            • Features a new & unique question format for superior accuracy
            • Is written in clear, neutralized English, for cross-cultural use
            • Offers automatic switching between American & British English
            • Automatically links a person's results to actual job requirements
            • Integrates Self-profiling, Team-profiling, 360-profiling and Job-profiling in a simple-to-use, self-contained program that sits on your PC
            • Is pay-per-use. (i.e. No hefty annual license fees just for access.)
            • Allows you to print questionnaires for free. (i.e. No annual leasing fees for all of your booklets.)
            • Scores everything automatically, on a simple computer screen. (i.e. No bulky & expensive Optical Character Reader machines required.)
            • Archives all of your data on your hard drive.
            • Is easily accessible to anyone. (i.e. Does not obligate users to buy 10-days of training for each person who uses it.)
            • Includes the much-complimented 'Manual & Interpretation Guide', featuring a  a fun format which builds your understanding easily.


            The MBTI is different in that it is a 'categorization' tool.  It uses a pigeon-holing system with 16 pre-determined 'boxes'.  We feel that it is best suited as an introductory tool for basic behavioral awareness, and not for recruiting or serious developmental coaching.  It has four simple, bipolar scales.

            DISC is very different in that it has only four main 'scales', which many HR professionals find to be of limited value for meaningfully guiding staff decisions or management issues.  Historically there has been a lot of bad press from psychologists and others who have questioned the design and validity of this tool. (i.e. Does it really measure what it purports too, and is it useful?)  It is best to do your own research.
             

          "What training do I need?"
          Training in business-related personality / behavioral profiling is highly recommended, because EXPERT is a professional tool.  However, we

            recognize that you may have relevant prior experience, or wish to use EXPERT under supervision.  Therefore, training is not obligatory for access to the technology.  Also, inexperienced users have so far all remarked that EXPERT data is surprisingly easy to understand, and indeed it has been designed to be useful to you even if you have had very little prior exposure.

            If you would like to attend certification training (- it's fun!) you can choose from one of three excellent professional courses designed for different levels of prior experience - from 'none at all' to 'pro':

            Click on this link to read about 1, 2 and 3-day Training Courses  or...
             

          "Are there annual license fees?"
          Absolutely not.  This was one of the primary irritations that users of other
          tools expressed to EXPERT researchers. ("It's unreasonable to slapped

            with a hefty annual fee, regardless of whether we even use [the tool]!")  With EXPERT, you pay only for what you use, whether it's one profile per week or 100 profiles per week.


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          "Can I test it out?"
          YES.  We are so certain that you will find EXPERT invaluable, that you can try
          it out at your leisure.  You may have the complete software and manual
            set on a trial basis for 21 days, with a money-back guarantee. If you find that 'EXPERT' does not do what you need it to do for your business, you can return it and we will reimburse you for the software and manual.  Or to try before you buy...

            You can complete EXPERT 'Self-profiler' here on-line and have your results emailed to you. Also available are Recorded Interpretations - professional, private analyses recorded on tape by our resident experts.

            You can also use this on-line facility for your staff, job applicants or coaching clients, by having them direct their results to your email inbox.
             

                To find out how to set this up, please:

                Call: (+61 2 9412 2500)
                02 9412 2500 (Sydney, Aust.),
                or                 .... E-mail:  info@macquarieinstitute.com.au

                 

                 

             
             
          "What does it cost?"
          Your only start-up costs are for your Starter Kit. You may load the software onto as many computers on the same business premises as you like.  Each computer will need its own Scoring Credits.
           
            Your only ongoing costs are for the per-use Scoring Credits. These are computerized 'tokens' which get used up over time. Re-boosting (i.e. re-filling) is quick, easy and automated.
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