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Tag Archives: Business Psychology
Coaching Psychology at Thompson Dunn
Why do we assess?
The Thompson Dunn approach is ‘whole-brained’, client-centered coaching, including scientific models, coaching methods, experience and intuition.
We use assessments to provide a baseline and subsequently combine them with a creative process designed to specifically fit the individual’s needs.
The assessment process provides the following:
1. Data to draw inferences in collaboration with the client about [...]
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The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions
The financial media is reporting a noted cautiousness by companies in terms of considering a merger. With debt concerns stretching far into and beyond 2010, coupled with a still volatile market, M&A activity is down 4.4% from last year- when we were in a recession.
80% of Mergers are a failure
The reasons for lack of merger [...]
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Staff Engagement
The article below was featured in a Metro supplement on staff motivation. For the full article click here.
Here’s the good news. Your employees WANT to take pride in the organisation they represent. They WANT to care about the quality of their output and WANT to understand how their efforts help to deliver [...]
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What Role Does Psychology Play in Business?
How can business psychology help you?
Sigmund Freud once said that “love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness”. Whilst you may not be feeling much love in the workplace at present, the application of psychological knowledge can help tremendously in these difficult times.
So how can business psychology support businesses and their employees? [...]
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What is Assessment for?
Much is being written currently about leadership development, the management of human capital, facilitating and growing a company’s leadership pipeline and executive coaching.
At Thompson Dunn, we begin our approach to work of this nature by establishing a baseline, the point from which we start an intervention with a client. This is our assessment process and [...]
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Mergers and Acquisitions
Emotional Responses in Mergers and Acquisitions
Much has been written recently in the financial press and various business school publications on what makes a merger or acquisition a success or failure. One of the most striking things however, seems to be the lack of attention paid to the emotional reactions of individuals, groups and indeed whole [...]
I dislike my boss – but how should I deal with it?