Psychometrics
Psychometric Assessments are used to help measure an individual’s aptitudes and preferences for a particular career or field.
We offer psychometric assessments for education, career development and for corporate assessment and recruitment. There are several types of online assessments available.
Career Guidance Psychometrics for Students
Psychometric assessments from two providers are available.
Morrisby Assessments Online
These are comprehensive assessments that measure aptitudes such as verbal, non-verbal, numerical, spatial and mechanical abilities along with work preferences allowing students to make 16+ and 18+ subject choices. A comprehensive careers database and university course list allows a student to research career, higher education and vocational choices suited to their abilities and work preferences. A report of results and feedback is given to each candidate.
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Morrisby Report
Morrisby Online Assessments can be taken online anywhere. A report of results is generated after the test with a feedback session on the results. This involves a career coaching session via skype or in person. Morrisby assessments are extremely useful for students aged 15+ making decisions about A level subjects and sixth form students choosing university courses.
Talent Strengths Assessments
Talent Strengths provides one of the most comprehensive suites of career guidance tools in the assessment industry.
The Advanced Explorer Report combines information from 11 different tests and assessments to provide rich information on which to base career decisions and advice.
Alternatively, a shorter assessment edition called the Standard Explorer Report is available which includes 6 tests and assessments.
Each report provides a comprehensive evaluation of an individual’s skills and abilities to help them understand their strengths and potential growth areas. The careers section identifies the key sectors that the person may prefer from a list of 24 sectors.
A list of rank ordered jobs is provided from a database of nearly 1,000 different job titles. Further information on these jobs are included within the “Career Zone”. This contains detailed information about the job role, work environment, salary range and links to associated bodies important to that job role for researching careers.
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A workshop for educational psychometrics for international students applying to UK and US universities was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in July 2018. This helped several students with making post GCSE and university choices.
My daughter and I primarily sought Nayanee Silva’s help to guide her subject selection for ALs. But that is not all we received. We met her to have feedback on a report Nayanee had generated from the Morrisby Psychometrics Test my daughter had previously done through Smarter Lives. During the session Nayanee analysed the report even more thoroughly, advising her how to play to her strengths and personality. She pointed to various undergraduate degree options – many of which we had never really explored before – university choices, information on scholarships, future career guidance – in short, a lot of food for thought with relevant weblinks to look through at leisure! Many thanks Nayanee for all the help!!
My Careers Profile Assessment
My Careers Profile Online Assessment can be taken by students from age 14 and adults. There are two types of assessment – the Standard Explorer and the Advanced Explorer Assessment. Comprising ability assessments and a personality questionnaire, this is one of the most comprehensive career guidance assessments available.
Psychometrics for Professional and Corporate Use
There are a number of psychometric assessments for corporate and professional use. These assessments are offered via our partnership with the provider Talent Strengths. Smarter Lives uses these assessments to help coach individuals and support organisations with recruitment and staff performance analysis. There are ability based psychometrics, personality and competency based assessments available. Some of these can be ‘customized’ by the client.
The TSTI – Talent Strengths Type Indicator is a comprehensive assessment that incorporates several layers of stand alone assessments. These are detailed below. The individual tests can be purchased on their own or as part of the TSTI suite.
To find out more about how these can be used and for ordering individual or blocks of assessments for your organisation, Contact Us
The asessements can be taken online and pdf results generated by candidate. Feedback is given for every assessment so that candidates or line managers can understand the scoring and uses of the reports.
TSTI - Talent Strengths Type Indicator
The Talent Strengths Type Indicator™ is the latest evolution in the understanding of personality type. The TSTI™ is a combined Type/Trait instrument that provides a deeper, richer insight into understanding personality type. The TSTI™ takes its foundation from Carl Jung’s Theory of Psychological Type (with the most well-known Jungian instrument being MBTI®). It also draws elements of its foundation from the principle works of trait theorists involved in the development of the Big 5 personality markers.
The TSTI™ is the first generation of personality type assessments to acknowledge more fully the dynamics of personality. The TSTI™ provides measurement of the traditional 16 personality types (global types) but also 20 underlying facets. Each of the 20 facets have strong convergent and divergent validity with appropriate Big 5 facet scales, giving practitioners greater confidence that they are accurately measuring what each facet purports to measure. By introducing the deeper underlying facets, an individual’s profile can acknowledge the uniqueness of the individual by having elements of their type preferences in both polar opposites of each of the 4 type ranges.
Team Roles Report
The Team Roles Report uses a work structured context for exploring individual team roles and their contribution to team performance and effectiveness. Ideal for:
Team Working
Helping team members to understand their role strengths and their potential contribution to achieving optimal performance as a team.
Innovation and Problem Solving
In understanding each person’s role and strengths, teams can deliver better more focussed problem solving.
Team Balance
Helps to evaluate where there may be role gaps or an imbalance in the team.
Enhancing Team Performance
Understanding their team strengths and where individuals are ideally placed to contribute to the team’s performance.
Change management
Helping team members receive feedback about their role and their potential input to future planning.
Benefits
Improved Team Performance
Teams with clear roles and goals work better to deliver higher performance levels.
Performance Climate
Teams that are clear about their shared objectives and their role in delivery are more likely to create a healthy performance climate.
Balanced Decision Making
The wider group’s views are considered to ensure the best ideas aren’t lost.
Reduced Interpersonal Conflict
Improved understanding of others’ strengths, roles and contribution to team performance.
Selling Styles Report
The report looks in detail at 24 sales activities that underpin the 6 stages of the sales cycle. An individual’s potential is considered against known characteristics of successful sales people in various sales situations.
The report includes a full colour profile of their preferred subordinate styles and communication style. Also displayed is their 4 Colours (quadrant) summary which can be beneficial for team building activities.
Applications
The Selling Styles Report looks in detail at the six stages of the sales cycle, exploring a person’s potential when operating in key sales tasks and activities. Ideal for:
Sales Coaching
Supporting sales people in understanding their strengths and limitations and how to become more effective when selling.
Building New Sales Teams
Helping to identify and match roles to the right individuals.
Training Needs Analysis
Identifying where extra support or training is required.
Developing Self Awareness
Helping sales people understand how they are perceived by others.
Benefits
Better and More Effective Sales People
Individuals who understand their strengths in the sale process and where they can be most effective.
Focussed Sales Training
Profiling helps target specific areas requiring additional training and personal development.
Improved Selling Skills
Focussed advice enables individuals to make better choices and decisions at each stage of the sales process.
Better Retention
Sales people can be identified for roles where there is a more suitable match of skills to the job requirements.
Leadership and Management Report
Applications
The Leadership and Management Styles Report explores a person’s preferred style of leading and managing others with detailed coaching advice and insights. Ideal for:
Leadership Development
Helping leaders understand their preferred style of leadership and how to optimise their performance in the workplace.
1 to 1 Coaching
Supporting managers and leaders in understanding how they impact others and how to manage more effectively.
Identifying Leadership Potential
Helping team leaders and individual contributors within the organisation explore their future leadership and management potential.
Development Centres
This TSTI™ report provides a rich source of information to support other data gathered during a development centre.
Cultural Change
Change needs to be driven from the top. Exploring managers’ and leaders’ preferred style of leadership can help them make changes to their style to suit the organisation’s future direction and expected behaviours.
Benefits
Better Leaders and Managers
Leaders and managers who are more self-aware and able to harness their authority and skills more effectively.
Improved Leadership Succession
Managers and junior leaders can assume new roles with greater self-awareness and confidence.
Personality/Behavioural Assessment – TSPQ
The Talent Strengths Personality Questionnaire is a dynamic behavioural assessment that enables practitioners to select the personality dimensions that they wish to use in a recruitment or employee development project and to deploy only those dimensions in an assessment solution. The TSPQ – Invent Series™ delivered through the Talent Strengths Assessment Software System is designed to enable organisations to ‘invent’ or create their own personality assessment from a compendium of 47 pre-validated personality scales contained within the TSPQ™. Dimensions can be selected directly or through using the TSPQ™ Job Competency Analysis Questionnaire.
Within the TSPQ range, Talent Strengths provides two different profile reports with tailored interview questions.
These are:
The Competency Potential Report – Interview Guide
The Personality Selector Report – Interview Guide
Depending on your personal preference, you may wish to use competency language in your recruitment process or to work directly with the results using selected personality scales. The two report options cater for both requirements.