Psychometric Testing – Investing in Success

In the hands of an experienced, registered psychometrist, like the specialists at Orgro, psychometric testing should never be feared. Fear usually results from insecurities that plague persons who are afraid of what tests may reveal about the inner workings of their minds, or may date back to traumatic childhood experiences.

Fearing Wrath

Bullying still takes place at school, despite parents’ and authorities’ best efforts to curb such destructive behaviour. Additionally, the person may have felt picked on by a particularly strict and seemingly formidable teacher, whose wrath, resulting from wrong answers and mistakes, was feared above all else during vulnerable childhood years, when highly impressionable. No one wants to feel “less than” or inferior to counterparts.

Understandable Insecurities

Nonetheless, although perfectly understandable to us at Orgro, such fears are completely unfounded when it comes to psychometric testing. Why is this so? Although the term “psychometric testing” may sound daunting, because it refers to “psycho”, which potentially delves into the mysteries of the human mind, this type of assessment should be welcomed.

Personal and Professional Benefits

Psychometric testing can be of immense benefit and advantage to the person being evaluated, since it usually reveals almost limitless strengths, talents, interests and natural aptitudes in a variety of areas – personally and professionally, which are of enormous value in the workplace and beyond, again professionally and personally.

Workplace Fulfilment

Without the invaluable assistance of psychometric testing, people are all too often placed into positions and roles for which they are less well-suited. Having a warm body in a role within a business doesn’t necessarily equate to the person’s peak performance at his or her tasks, or his/her job satisfaction and fulfilment.

Conversely, placing the person in a job that may be challenging but which still suits their innate characteristics, interests and abilities, is ideal for fulfilment, plus all-important additional development and both personal and professional growth.

Such healthy growth and progression benefit the person, the employer, colleagues, the workplace environment and the organisation as a whole. If a similar approach is taken with all employees and subsequent new appointees, the route to a committed and fully engaged workforce, performing optimally in a harmonious workplace is virtually a certainty.

Reality of a Dream Outcome

This is the dream outcome of many an organisation. It can become a reality, sometimes thanks in a large part to the results of professional psychometric testing and the responsible goal-directed actions taken thereafter. On the road to achieving peak performing success, it is crucial to have the right fit – the right people in the right jobs.

Uncovering Leaders

Professionally administered and evaluated psychometric assessments are used to great effect for this purpose. Such processes are also instrumental in uncovering people with leadership qualities. Leaders are important in all organisations. Companies that are relevant invariably employ leaders and those who engage and follow, striving to emulate the workplace behaviour and performance of their leadership corps.

Effective, efficient leaders typically set the pace and performance by example, whilst guiding, inspiring and encouraging others to follow, to the very best of their abilities.

Orgro’s Assessments

Orgro utilises a range of recognised international and South African psychometric tests to reveal and identify the optimum qualities, characteristics, skills, abilities and potential for development that are required to fulfil each position within each organisation, particularly applicable to the key, influential organisational roles. These tests are multi-faceted, typically including the following test elements:

• Personality – understanding if and how a person’s characteristics enhance and fit into a specific role, while obtaining insight into current behaviour, as a likely predictor of future behaviour and performance.
• Aptitude – assesses the ability to perform tasks and predict future effectiveness by exploring various elements that indicate aptitude.
• Emotional intelligence – vital in determining the person’s abilities to establish and maintain relationships, cope with adversity and challenges, control emotions, make critical decisions and express themselves effectively.
• Cognitive and learning capability – helps to assess various aspects of conceptual thinking, situational judgement, and inclination towards either strategic or organisational interests.
• Integrity – evaluates the individual’s innate integrity and ethical standing, decisions and work profile.
• Values – value orientation and system, individual and team culture.
• Career pathing or planning – a comprehensive battery of evaluations, intended to ensure a happy, fulfilled future career path for each assessed person.

When you want the best-performing people in each organisational role, Orgro’s psychometric testing expertise offers you the opportunity to obtain exactly that and much more, right now and in the future. Contact us to assess what we can do for your organisation and its people.

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