Holistic Wellness Work-Life Balance

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Measuring the Mind: Psychometrics

To succeed and be happy in any job or assignment, it’s important to align your abilities, values and personality with those that are essential in your chosen career or field of endeavour -- and with those of the organization for whom you work or for whom you hope to work.

Today, many organizations use psychometric testing  often referred to as occupational, psychological or psychometric testing -- to assist with recruitment and candidate selection, employee training and development, team building, workplace assessments and counselling -- especially career counselling. In fact, many organisations report that their best HRM decisions are the ones that are based on formal performance appraisals and on the use of psychometric testing.

So what are psychometric tools?

Looking for a psychologist in the Gatineau & Ottawa region?

With over 750 psychologists in the Gatineau & Ottawa area, it is not so simple to choose the "right" psychologist.

We know that there are many different types of psychologists. Some are clinical and counselling psychologists, practitioners who provide psychotherapy and/or administer and interpret psychometric tools and tests. These professionals work primarily in private practices and in institutions such as hospitals, schools, clinics, and correctional facilities; their work can involve individuals, groups, and families, as well as public and private sector organizations, in whole or in part. There are also psychological professionals who work as researchers, in academic institutions, and in governmental and non-governmental organizations. Still others are active in both research and practice.

So how do I find the psychological services I'm looking for?

La prévention de l'épuisement professionnel : le défi des cadres au sein du gouvernement du Canada

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Organizational Commitment and Performance Management: Employees Performing at their Best

The way employees perceive their jobs is affected significantly by organizational culture and the climate in the workplace. The work environment also has a bearing on employee performance and the way that performance is seen by others.

Organizational culture is created by management's priorities, policies, practices, values and attitudes. In turn, this culture helps fashion employee attitudes and influences their behaviour.

Employee Engagement and Public Service Excellence

"Develop your employees for their career and for the future of the organization; have trust in them and make them trust you as well."

- Sunil Budhiraja quoted in The Employee Engagement Network

Most individuals want to do more than go through the motions. People aspire to do work that is meaningful. When they have the opportunity to be working with a leader who challenges, inspires, and appreciates them, they can perform far above their expectations.

Team Building: Energizing your Organization

Most leaders encourage and/or require their staff to work as a team but give their staff little guidance as to how they should do so.

A team is usually defined as a "group of people who are mutually dependent on one another to achieve a common goal". Little emphasis is placed, however, on how well the team is functioning.

In assessing team performance, consulting psychologists go beyond its' productivity and also pay attention to the team's wellness. The well-being of each team member is taken into consideration while trying to improve a team's performance. In fact, a highly performing team is considered to be one that is able to surpass its organizational goals, in addition to helping its members maintain both job satisfaction and healthy work-life balance.

Les défis que posent la prévention et la résolution des situations de harcèlement

S'il existe un consensus à propos du harcèlement, c'est que la prévention et la résolution des situations de harcèlement représentent un défi important pour les organisations. En effet, plusieurs éléments contribuent à rendre le harcèlement difficile à gérer.

Premièrement, le harcèlement est subjectif et est souvent basé sur des perceptions. Un même comportement peut être perçu différemment par différentes personnes. Il interpelle davantage les émotions que la raison notamment parce qu'il constitue une menace pour l'intégrité psychologique et l'identité de la personne. Pour ces raisons, le harcèlement est difficile à saisir et à définir. Comment peut-on en effet s'entendre sur une définition commune du harcèlement si un même comportement est perçu différemment par différentes personnes ? Parce qu'il est difficile à définir, le harcèlement est aussi difficile à prouver juridiquement.

The "Active" Leader: Using Willpower to Move from Knowing to Doing

With our constant stream of emails, voicemails, meetings, conference calls, pages, faxes and so on, it is a minor miracle that any of us can accomplish anything. With our Blackberrys surgically implanted into our hands, our time is sliced so thinly that we never have the focused time to develop the big-picture perspective required for an action plan, let alone the time to execute it.

"Daily routines, superficial behaviors, poorly prioritized or unfocused tasks leech managers' capacities—making unproductive busyness perhaps the most critical behavioral problem" in business today, contend Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal in their book A Bias for Action.

For so many of us—whether CEOs for major corporations, small business owners or soloentrepreneurs – there is a fundamental disconnection between knowing what should be done and actually doing it. Calling this disconnection the "knowing-doing gap," Stanford University researchers Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton pose the question: "Why does knowledge of what needs to be done frequently fail to result in action or behavior consistent with that knowledge?"

Don't Miss a Step: Take Time to Celebrate!

The path of a goal, whether a goal set for your personal life or in the course of business, is generally seen as having four steps:

1. Assess the situation
2. Set goals for how you want it to be
3. Take steps to achieve the goals, and
4. Achieve the goals (completion).