Assessments From Talogy

16pf ®

Developed by Dr. Raymond Cattell, the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16pf ®) is a scientific measure with a rich heritage of validation evidence. It assesses 16 primary factors and 5 global factors. The questionnaire has a wide applicability for revealing potential, conforming suitability, and identifying development needs.

This personality assessment generates multiple reports from one test administration ranging from identifying career suitability to identifying suitability for remote working. It predicts performance across industries, roles and levels.

Currently in its 6th Edition, it is available in 20+ global languages.

Emotional Intelligence Profile

With 25 years of research and validation, the EIP3 measures personal emotional intelligence. Using 16 scales, as part of the 6-part framework, it assesses how our underlying attitudes affect emotional awareness and performance related behaviour. It can be incorporated in assessment centres, interview processes, coaching, and leadership development programs to increase one’s self-awareness and be better able to manage themselves and their relationships in personal and professional capacity.

This self-report questionnaire generates a variety of assessment and development reports applicable across different positions and levels.

Certified practitioners within the organization can use the EI Zone app to develop and sustain emotional intelligence.

The Resilience Questionnaire ™

The Resilience Questionnaire™ measure individual resilience in the workplace. It focuses on psychological resilience, thinking and behaviour patterns that affect response to setbacks and challenges. It measure 8 dimensions of resilience which is further translated into 8 resilience strategies that can be leveraged on in crisis situations. It is integrated in interventions such as coaching, development workshops, development of HIPOs, redeployment, restructuring and downsizing.

Incorporating the 4 stage process of resilience, the tool generates various reports reflecting the preference of an individual on the 8 dimension along with development tips to further build on.

VirtualAC™

VirtualAC™ is an online assessment centre platform that simulates business environment to deliver engaging simulation exercises to select and develop. Information and issues are presented in a variety of formats, such as emails, video messages, voicemails, calendar items, documents and organisation charts.

It offers a variety of ready-to-use exercises on a range of competencies. It offers exercises relevant to different business functions, levels and sectors.

The types of exercises involved are:

1. Analysis ((Duration: 80 to 145 minutes): Requires analysis of verbal & numerical information on work situation and, report writing with conclusions and recommendations.
2. Inbox ((Duration: 90 to 120 minutes): Contains emails with different issues, varying in terms of importance and complexity requiring prioritization and action.
3. Day in a life (Duration: 230 to 250 minutes): Contains multiple interlinked activities within a single scenario, such as:
   • Range of email In-box of typical issues.
   • Virtual one-to-one interaction with a direct report.
   • Analysis Exercise with a report that is presented to the boss.

AC-EXS Exercises ™

The AC-EXS – internationally recognized ready-to-use assessment and development centre exercises has been used in 19+ countries. The AC-EXS range:

1. Contains over 260 ready-to-use work simulation exercises.
2. Reflects typical working scenarios: working alone, one-to-one, and in groups.
3. Covers five levels of role: non-management, graduate, first-line management, middle management, and executive and senior management.
4. Is set in relevant industry sectors and realistic business functions.
5. Assesses 35 commonly recognized behavioural competencies that can be mapped to each specific job role.

Types of AC-EXS Exercises:

1. Non-Assigned Role Group Discussions – Participants are given the same information for review, discussion, and work together to arrive at recommendations.
2. Assigned Role Group Discussions – Participants have different roles and information and are required to represent different views at the meeting.
3. Inbox/In-Basket exercises – Participants work through the contents of an inbox containing emails and attachments, covering a range of different work issues.
4. Analysis exercises – Participants analyse and interpret a dossier of information from a mix of sources, compile a report & give a presentation, or both.
5. Scheduling exercises – Participants schedule limited resources, to prepare a plan indicating how they will be deployed.
6. Interview simulations (roleplays) – Participants schedule limited resources, to prepare a plan indicating how they will be deployed.
   1. Internal – a meeting with another member of staff.
   2. External – a meeting with a person external to the organization.
7. Fact finds exercises – Participants are given limited information & asked to find out more from another person to make a confident decision.
8. Oral presentation exercises – Participants present information based on information analysis.

The Dilemmas Series™

The Dilemma Series™ provides different, role-specific ready-to-use situational judgement test (SJTS) which can be incorporated in the talent acquisition process. These standardized tools are applicable across different organizations, industries and functions. Individuals are required to rate the effectiveness of responses to different realistic job scenarios which they may encounter in such roles. The different dilemmas in this series are:

1. Administrative Dilemmas™ – Assess administrative, clerical and secretarial staff.
2. Call Centre Dilemmas ™ – Assesses customer service for call centre or contact centre staff who deal with inbound customer enquiries.
3. Customer Service Dilemmas ™ – Assess the customer service staff.
4. Graduate Dilemmas ™ – Assess graduates across organizations, industries and job functions.
5. Management Dilemmas ™ – Assesses individual for managerial positions across a range of organisations and industry sectors. The test is specifically aimed at individual working in or being considered for first line or middle management roles.
6. Situational Judgement Tests Dilemmas™ (SJTs) – Assess an individual’s competency in handling realistic work-related scenarios through ready-to-use assessments.

LIVED 360™

An online leadership feedback tool, it can be incorporated in leadership initiatives to identify and develop current and future leaders. It measures effective leadership behaviour against identified critical areas. It helps to identify leadership performance and potential.

Incorporating 5 LIVED® dimensions, based on the LIVED framework, this tool is applicable across industries and can be used without additional training.