Management Psychology Group | industrial organizational psychologists

As a consulting firm of professional licensed psychologists, our mission is to help clients get the right people into the right jobs, help people grow to their full potential on the job and help executive teams become more effective. We provide professional, valid, reliable, timely, practical and cost-effective psychological consulting services. We have extensive experience in assessment for selection and development, leadership succession planning, executive coaching, job analysis, selection validation, employee surveys and team building.

Assessment

Executive Team Assessment provides an objective evaluation of the strengths and gaps of the team at the top. It focuses on the current status of the team as well as on future needs. Each executive receives extensive feedback about his/her more…

Executive Coaching

We also offer more in-depth, individualized coaching programs designed to enhance performance of new or experienced leaders. Coaching is ongoing and is focused on psychological consultation, not more….

Team Development

How well does your team function? We help executive teams diagnose their strengths and weaknesses and help them compare themselves to high performance teams on crucial success more…

Online Services

Online Testing. The eTest battery is the heart of our on-line testing service. This assessment is used for a very wide range of jobs and levels. The information provided by this process can help more…

All Services

It’s not as bad as you think!

That’s the subtitle of Abundance, a new book by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. These are two bona fide seriously smart guys who know what they’re talking about and who have a remarkably upbeat message. You don’t see much of that nowadays. Diamandis is an international leader in the commercial space arena, having founded and [...]

April 12, 2012
Keys to Leadership Success (Book Intro)

Author’s Note — This is taken from the introduction to a book in progress (working title: The I-Competencies: Head, Heart, Guts and Will as Keys to Success). If anyone has an idea for a shorter title, please let me know. If it works better, I’ll send you a free copy of the book when it’s [...]

March 12, 2012
DO THE WORK: Overcoming Resistance

There was an old Star Trek plot about an alien enemy called the BORG. Their mission in the universe was to assimilate all of the other intelligent races. In pursuit of their seemingly unstoppable collectivist mission, they had a habit of intoning “resistance is futile.” They were convinced that they would win in the end. [...]

March 12, 2012
Pathways to Power: Getting there and Thriving

A recent book by Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer offers many insights about power in organizations: how to gain it and how to hold on to it once you have it. It’s based on real world observation and research, not on theory, abstraction or political correctness. As such, some of his observations may be at odds [...]

March 12, 2012
We ALWAYS Have Choices

You can’t operate in the physical world without making choices. The alarm goes off in the morning. You choose to get up or to burrow back in. If you realize you’ve put on a few extra pounds, you can choose to begin training for a marathon, decide you’re OK and grab another bag of chips [...]

March 12, 2012
The Intersection of Intelligence and Arrogance

It’s good to be competent. Being arrogant, not so much. But they’re often related. Being smart, bright and clever leads to competence in many areas related to business success. But having these intellectual gifts also means that one gets used to being right, being perceived as a good problem-solver and being highly valued by others. [...]

March 12, 2012
Leading the New Generation: Are the Kids All Right?

GenX. GenY. Millenials. Generation ME. Whatever comes next. They’re so different from the way we were. They’re self-centered, anti-social, superficial, unhappy, etc. Maybe not so much, it turns out. Received Wisdom tells us that recent generations are fundamentally different in some very important ways and that these differences need to be taken into account as [...]

March 12, 2012
Leading in Tough Times: When You’re Going Through Hell … Keep On Going

Growth through Pain (Cliché but True) It’s a tough fact of life that we don’t learn much about ourselves or our character in good times. We can’t fully discover our strengths and shortcomings without being tested by adversity. How we deal with it, or how we learn to deal with it, is central to who [...]

March 12, 2012
Tough-Minded Teamwork: Role Negotiation

Roger Harrison was one of the founders of the professional discipline known as Organizational Development (OD). In the 1970s, he described a rather novel and tough-minded approach to team development. This was a bit of a departure from the then-vogue tender-minded approaches that assumed conflict and power struggles were symptoms of underlying leadership or structural [...]

March 12, 2012
Entrepreneurs and Personality

What is an entrepreneur? Why are certain people successful starting and growing a business and others are not? Is it just luck or being in the right place at the right time? Certainly Bill Gates, with his technical talents, needed the computer revolution in order to make Microsoft the successful company it is. But is [...]

March 12, 2012