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Services: Assessment & Evaluation

The strength of our approach to assessment and evaluation is that we:

  • View the assessment of people and their development from a time and growth perspective.
  • Provide integrated feedback to individuals on their assessment.
  • Contextualise the feedback within organisational understanding.

Over forty years of working in organisations all over the world has shown that work differs in complexity and decision time-span at the various organisational levels. An Individual's ability to deal with these levels will also differ and develop at different rates. Much of our focus as an organisation is to assist companies in achieving the optimum match between work and people.


This time and growth perspective offers a context for individual assessment and development. Hence we can cater for depth and width perspectives. We offer a spectrum from intensive to cost-effective solutions supplemented by services ranging from traditional psychometric assessment, level specific assessment centres to technology based alternatives.


All our products meet stringent validity, reliability and culturally fair requirements.


Specific technologies / processes used in this regard are: CPA, MCPA, IRIS, LPA and EDA.
Services: Leadership Development

Leadership is an ongoing and unfolding process with each challenge faced by the leader resulting in new challenges, sometimes related and sometimes not.


This ongoing and unfolding process requires leaders to continue to adapt, as well as to integrate or replace learnings over their lifetime. Hence we offer a flexible range of leadership development support that caters for the unique characteristics of the individual leader, whilst being able to draw on our extensive experience gained in working with senior executives across a vast range of organisations from the public, private, voluntary, charitable and social enterprise sections.


The development support ranges from assisting individuals with realising their potential through individual or team coaching to generic development of daily leadership effectiveness. These include:

  • Structure and high performance orientated / leadership efficacy development.
  • Interventions for established leaders. This process assists the understanding and achievement of their strengths, of the factors that may inhibit the achievement of their potential, as well as the implications of and choices required for their optimal strategic career positioning.
  • Informal and flexible 'being with' the leader sessions, dealing with self-reflection and issues which can range from regulatory relationships via relationships with the Board or investor communities to their own work-life balance concerns.

Services: Organisational Design & Interventions

Purpose driven structures and interventions can be modelled prior to implementation by using a well tested and researched framework for the understanding of organisations.


This framework is the Matrix of Working Relationships (MWR), a mathematically derived work themes (or levels of work) body of knowledge. By understanding and modelling the separate work themes as well as their overall environmental fit, we can:

  • Identify the overall organisational complexity required to match the environmental challenges.
  • Distinguish the appropriate and specific value-adding contributions necessary within the organisation for optimal flow of work and accountability.
  • Review the optimal release and alignment of individual creativity and full contribution across the organisation.


Applications include organisational design, restructuring, strategic positioning, change management, acquisitions, mergers, cost control and succession planning and risk management.
Services: Reflecting on the future/Strategic Consulting-Coaching

As leaders, particularly of global organisations, face increasingly demanding 'current concerns' in volatile financial, technical and political environments, the important components of understanding the organisation's future and considering how to shape it, are often postponed.


Unless the deliberate decision is taken to neglect such understanding, what options are available apart from intensive retreats involving teams of staff and endless strategy reviews?


An alternative is the regular creating of space for reflection about the longer term context of the organisation. Typically, such reflection takes the form of group or individual sound boarding, or 'being with', the leader(s) sessions.


During these sessions, the reflection on the future becomes a conversation with the individual(s) to turn their tacit concerns and understandings of the challenges they face into articulate exploration, sharing and clarification of what is not clear or understood.


In this process, the bioss role becomes one of being a "conversational companion" and of offering ways of thinking or reflecting on the longer term context / concerns, as well as offering ways of thinking about the conversations.
Services: Talent Management & Succession Planning - Identification of long term and current Potential

Investment in the future of the organisation presupposes investment in people.


Unfortunately, making sense of and knowing whether individuals will be able to perform in challenging positions is not as readily accessible to planning as are capital investments or deploying IT infrastructure, for example.


Accordingly, our approach is to provide clarity and understanding with regard to scoping talent and its longer term unfolding. This relates to:

  • A quantifiable and time-base perspective for planning in addressing the identified issue / need.
  • The availability and / or shortages of future leaderes - "stocktaking".
  • The optimum deployment of the energies of future leaders.
  • Differentiation between the non-negotiable as opposed to the optional aspects of leadership potential and abilities.
  • Visual representation and automated staffing scenario projections according to the required planning cycle.

Services: Applied Research
Effective research is simultaneously about meeting stringent scientific standards and reflecting growing knowledge, as well as the ongoing review of the investment and actual returns made by and for organisations. Accordingly, we assist by providing:
  • Total options with regard to strategic and operational business solutions, product development, academic research, as well as statistical analysis.
  • Extensive global networking with regard to research management, best practices and feedback on the practical use of our applications in organisations.
  • Training in understanding the need for organisational research, i.e. risk management, legal actions, social justice, employer of choice, productivity and organisational effectiveness.
  • Training in basic methodological concepts and techniques including action research, conceptualisation, research design, populations and sampling frames, data analysis, as well as the ethics and politics of social research.
  • Global benchmarking research participation.
  • Assistance with the authoring of publications.
All our research activities meet internationally accepted standards, contribute to global master-class norm setting and understanding, while simultaneously offering practical and cost effective alternatives.

Contact us in your region for discussion of your research needs.