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By Associate Professor Chris Jackson, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia

The Hippo's revenge...

So a psychometrician, a recruitment consultant, and a management consultant are out hunting together. They spy a hippo who promptly charges the trio.

The recruitment consultant is trained to think fast and takes a quick shot. Alas, the bullet misses and simply nicks the hippo's left ear.

"Shame you missed," mocks the manicured management consultant, "but of course with an ordinary gun, one would expect that." The management consultant aims a special hippo gun, which is rigged together from an ordinary rifle, a sextant, a compass, a barometer, and a bunch of flashing lights which don't do anything but impress onlookers, and fires. Alas, the bullet nicks the hippo's right ear.

The recruitment consultant and management consultant wisely flee the charging and angry hippo. The psychometrician studies the charging hippo and is plainly too puzzled to run away.

Just before the psychometrician is trampled to death by the hippo, the recruitment consultant and the management consultant hear the psychometrician say: "I don't understand ... between the two of you, that was a perfect shot!"

Dr Chris Jackson

Using SWOT on-line to share decisions with your team

In the above joke all three professions involved in 'hunting' the right people for selection or development got it wrong. The recruitment consultant and the management consultant needed to have chosen hunting instruments with greater accuracy. They could have learned a great deal from the skilled psychometrician who had the theory and the background to make the correct selection or development decision. On the other hand, the psychometrician could also have learned a few practical tips about the actual business of hunting and staying alive from the professionals.

Well, I am a skilled psychometrician with an excellent neuropsychological theory of functional and dysfunctional learning and personality. The Learning Styles Profiler can be used in selection, development and training. It offers practitioners the great opportunity to shoot straight with a brand new, state of the art psychological test which is both sophisticated in theory and simple to use. There is no sextant, compass, barometer or useless flashing lights. Instead it provides a method for distinguishing functional people who are successful and with high integrity from those who are dysfunctional,  unsuccessful and of low integrity. 

Avoid the 'hippos revenge' by using the Learning Styles Profiler in your work. Use it to measure functional and dysfunctional learning. To receive a quote about setting up the Learning Styles Profiler (LSP) from Cymeon please contact them at:

http://64.78.11.144/orders/lsp.asp

To understand why the Learning Styles Profiler is a sensational product in the otherwise dull world of psychometrics, you should make sure that you have read the manual which is available at: http://64.78.11.144/lss2.asp

If you have any questions simply email the Learning Team at Cymeon at admin@cymeon.com

Until my next newsletter!

Chris Jackson

© Chris Jackson, 2006

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