For most people, personality is reactive and unconscious. However, people can volitionally change their own personality traits. It does require reinforcement specific patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours (Lodi-Smith & Roberts, 2007; Roberts & Wood, 2006). Increases Extraversion and Conscientiousness are the most common trait change goals, followed by Emotional Stability. Recent research by Hudson and Fraley demonstrates that well-designed psychological interventions can ...

FinxS® is the new online platform for Extended DISC®. Within your branded FinxS® account, which is set up and customised for you following your accreditation, you can automate report generation and also manually generate reports as required. And not just one report per individual but any or all the individual assessments, including teams, work pairs, candidate comparison, or tailored or additional assessment in the system all at no additional cost to you. The FinxS system c...

What is resilience? It's an easy concept to grasp, someone who is resilient can meet any adversity and make their way through it. Simple enough. But, what if there is more than that. What if resilience runs deeper than a simple definition, what if it is more than just a mental construct? To date that is all that resilience has been thought of as. However, ongoing research has provided greater clarity on the microbiological nature of how resilient someone is, and it has suggested th...

Using the PR6 resilience model we can now understand how effective teams are at working together to build resilience. The PR6 resilience model was developed from the study of the human mind. Years of research has led us to an understanding of the core elements that make up resilience.
The PR6 was scientifically validated as a psychometric scale with a Cronbach's alpha of .7365! For those of you playing at home, the closer the score is to 0.9 the higher the internal consistency o...

As employers and managers these days we have a lot of difficult issues to deal with. The biggest of which is probably turnover. Employees quit for various number of reasons. I have read studies that show turnover is high after high school reunions, birthdays and even work anniversaries. These are natural times of self reflection and are fairly obvious to why someone would move on in their career for greener pastures. But, they are the minority reason for why someone quits their job,
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