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Liz Lawson
Liz is a Talent Consultant with knowledge and experience of delivering pragmatic, effective, best practice selection and assessment solutions. Previously a recruitment consultant in the Accountancy and Finance Industry, she specialised in the selection of senior finance professionals for SME and blue chip clients within manufacturing, financial and professional services. With an Honours degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Occupational Psychology, Liz holds level A and B certificates in psychometric testing and is well-versed in the design and delivery of assessment services from individual exercise design to large scale assessment centres.
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05th January 2012Driving Behavioural Change
Did you make any New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of this year? Did you achieve them, are you still working towards them or did you fail, like most, and revert back to your old behaviour by the second week in January? So, how do we drive real behaviour change in ourselves and our organisations? Edwin Locke’s (1968) ground-breaking Goal Setting Theory of Motivation has the answers....
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02nd July 2009Contour Housing Group - Assessing Capability
Contour Housing is one of the largest registered social landlords in the North West, with over 20,000 properties under ownership and management across 27 local authorities, providing housing, leaseholder and regeneration and development services to neighbourhoods. Following a company restructure and review of the top team, Wickland Westcott was engaged to carry out structured one-to-one assessments of four senior executives.The first stage was to establish the extent of fit between each Executive's current role and their proposed role within the new...
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22nd April 2009Tees PCT - Raising the Bar on Leadership
Primary Care Trusts are measured against 'World Class Commissioning' competencies designed to improve standards of care and achieve better value, health and well-being for all. Having recognised that reaching world class status would require managers who can lead change and drive reform, four PCTs on Teesside engaged Wickland Westcott to launch a development programme as part of their talent management strategy....
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