Following on from my previous blog, Occupational Psychology: ‘So what exactly do you do?’ it got me thinking about what it means to be a Consultant. Here are my insights into what it means to be a real, live, working, practicing Consultant. Any of my fellow consultants out there feel free to allow yourself a … Continue reading
A significant part of my time involves running residential training courses. One of the perks of this is being fed seriously nice hotel food and enjoying very engaging dinner conversations with my delegates. Recently, one of these conversations revolved around being grilled around “what exactly do you do?”. This, combined with a requirement that morning … Continue reading
Over the last few weeks the ABP Conference Speaker Team has been in a very exciting and unprecedented position of having to review a record number of Speaker Submissions for this year’s event. With nearly 80 submissions and only 32 speaker slots within the timetable, we had to make some really tough decisions. Hence, it … Continue reading
A big part of getting into the industry of occupational psychology is knowing who the movers and shakers are in the first place. Who should you put on your hit list, and whose radar do you want to try and get onto? Without meaning to show my age, the advent of the digital era has … Continue reading
Christmas has come and gone, the New Year revelry and associated hangover has faded from consciousness and well intentioned resolutions have no doubt already fallen by the wayside. However, despite the dark and dreary January nights, the ABP Conference Team has been working hard on the next steps of putting on the 2013 Annual Conference. … Continue reading
With a lot of tasks, you, and just you, are personally responsible. You find out what is required and then get on with it. Even if you are in charge of a team you are delegating to, you obviously want to engage and involve them, but ultimately the final say goes to you. The buck … Continue reading
It’s recently been super busy on the Conference front, with some really exicitng developments as well as lots of interest from potential delegates and speakers. It got me thinking about where we started. What our vision was when Dilip Boury and I first agreed to take on organising the 2013 Annual Conference and what … Continue reading
This week is the official launch of the Annual ABP Conference (25-27th April 2013) – only 5 months to go! A lot of work by a lot of people have gone into getting us here and arriving at this point has reminded me a bit of what it used be like trying to manoeuvre one … Continue reading
Being an Assessor can be tough. Early starts, late finishes, missing candidates, last minute candidates, wrong names, no clocks, too many chairs, not enough chairs, and that’s before you even get to the write-up! It was after a recent, and particularly intensive spell of assessment centres (60 forms written in less than two weeks), that … Continue reading
I have a confession. I haven’t blogged in a while. But you know that already. I don’t need to tell you. My last update was in June and it’s now November. So what happened? The conference happened. Not just any old conference but the Conference. A Conference with a capital ‘C’, not just your regular … Continue reading
Musings of an Occ Psych Geek 