Gurgaon, March 31, 2015 – The School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL), hosted Mr. Patrick Farrell, MD of Caliper Human Strategies (Australia) Pty Ltd, a part of the global human resource consulting company, Caliper Corporation. SOIL is the Principal Agent of Caliper in India.
The Caliper Profile is a powerful and in-depth psychometric assessment tool used by more than 30,000 companies world-wide. Developed 50 years ago by doctorate scholars in psychology to assist their client in selecting the right candidates for critical roles, Caliper has become the tool of choice for millions of corporate leaders, beating even other highly-rated tools in the highly competitive world of psychometric assessments.
Backed by years of research and fine-tuning, Caliper measures more than twenty personality traits to help companies hire the right people, develop their employees and build high performance teams by predicting job performance.
Mr. Farrell was in India to deepen the relationship with SOIL and promote a fresh, market-driven strategy for expanding foot-print in India.
During his visit he also conducted an accreditation program for practitioners to become certified Caliper assessors. The workshop engaged the interest of top leaders from the industry, including Jyoti Nair from Birla SunLife, and Daya Sajnani from Shapoorji Pallonji.
Speaking to a group of senior practitioners, Mr. Farrell announced Caliper’s ‘next generation’ suite of assessment tools, which will be released in India simultaneously with US, Europe, Australia and the rest of Asia.
As part of the upgraded on-line portal, partners will have access to a powerful Analytics tool, which will give instantaneous access to all Caliper data such as trait scores, behaviour scores, job family scores and even a team analysis scores. Reports can be selected at point of origin to cover a wide range of roles – Sales, Management, Service, Technical or Administration in either a Selection format or Development format.
Mr. Anil Sachdev, Founder & CEO of SOIL, commented:
“Caliper has been an integral part of the selection and development process for many of the leading companies in India. The new system will dramatically increase the range of offerings SOIL provides to clients in India. We are privileged to have been using Caliper for the last 10 years. At SOIL, we have inculcated Caliper assessment as one of the selection criteria for student’s admission to our leadership courses”.
About Caliper:
Caliper is an accurate and job-matched personality assessment tool, measuring 23 personality traits. Established in 1961, Caliper Corporation, based in Princeton New Jersey, has now assessed over three million individuals in over 30,000 companies world-wide, assisting them to identify talent and potential and develop it to produce outstanding performance from individuals, teams and the organization as a whole.
Caliper has an impressive client list of some of the world’s most prominent corporations – Johnson & Johnson, BASF, SAP, Tata Steel, Microsoft, Taj Hotels, Polaris, Wal-Mart, Aditya Birla Group, Dabur, Kohler, Hong Leong Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Anand Group, Caterpillar and many more. Caliper helps them to select the right people, develop the best talent and create the teams they need to succeed.
About SOIL:
SOIL is a unique B-school co-created by a group of 32 leading companies from across industry verticals which provides holistic education that builds inspired leaders; by enabling people to know who they are, recognize their purpose and realize their full potential and to build organizations of consequence. To accomplish this we nurture character, build competence and generate enthusiasm.
Some of our unique interventions include one-on-one mentoring by senior industry leaders, teaching business ethics through theatre, mindfulness through yoga & wellness, application of management concepts via Action Learning Projects (ALP), and developing compassionate and socially responsible leaders via Social Innovation Program (SIP).
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