The Hogrefe Group

The Hogrefe Group has been publishing scientifically developed, objective psychometric tools for 60 years. In the business testing market we continually strive to provide psychometric assessment techniques that address the current concerns of industry.

As workplaces and customers have become more diverse, as national boundaries have become less of a barrier to the movement of people, and as the legislative framework defending personal diversity and liberty has strengthened, successful team working depends on a higher level of interpersonal effectiveness than ever before. We all need to understand and accept how and why we all behave as we do as a result of our cultural upbringing, experiences or other differences. Our psychometric tests provide objective and powerful starting points to the raising of this awareness.

The Implicitly Test Series is designed to uncover unconscious biases and their likely impact on behaviour. The current series of tests measure bias in relation to age, gender, disability sexual orientation and ethnic origin. The Implicitly Series can be valuable for individual and team development contexts as well as organisational audits and intervention programmes.

The NEO PI-R measures preferred ways of behaving, emotional pattern, thinking style and conscious attitudes. Together these aspects of functioning deepen insight into how the person understands the world and operates in it and their style of engagement in social groups and situations with varying degrees diversity and unfamiliarity.

The Leadership Judgement Indicator (LJI) assesses how effectively managers take account of the nature of the task and the characteristics of the people involved in order to judge the most appropriate way to work in order to optimise results and maintain a motivated, engaged team.

The Coach on the Desktop (CotD) is designed to develop effective judgement and style flexibility in team leaders and can be used as part of a broader coaching process for inclusive leadership. It allows managers to practice with and learn from situational leadership theory. Decisions about how to manage people appropriately become aligned to theory and the manager becomes adept at applying the theory to real life.

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The Equality and Human rights Commission

The Equality and Human Rights Commission works with organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to reduce discrimination and promote equal opportunities for all employees, customers and the users of services.

The Commission provides help and advice on equal opportunities policy and practice to many organisations and companies, large and small; and liaises with government departments and representative organisations from all sectors.

Almost all public authorities in England, Wales and Scotland are bound by statutory duties to promote race and sex equality and eliminate discrimination. These duties take good practice a step further, providing a legal obligation to comply. The Commission provides information about these duties and guidance on the best ways to meet these requirements.

The Commission works to define, promote and publish best practice, in order to create a more fair and equitable society. We have guides on best practice to download, as well as statutory codes of practice.

AKD Training

AKD Training has over 10 years experience of developing and delivering training solutions. We began by developing solutions for complaints training. There was a great response to this and our reputation quickly grew, with more and more requests for other types of training.

We have worked with over 75 Government Agencies, NHS Trusts, Local Authorities and Private Sector Organisations. This means we can pass on that experience to you, because many of them have faced similar issues. It also means you can be assured that our techniques and strategies have been tested, refined and proven.

Government Equalities Office

GEO has responsibility within Government for equality strategy and legislation and takes the lead on issues relating to women, sexual orientation and transgender equality matters.

The Government's Equality Strategy sets out our vision for a strong, modern and fair Britain. It is built on two principles of equality – equal treatment and equal opportunity. This means building a society where no one is held back because of who they are, or where they come from.