Psychometric Assessments

To support your workforce, we are qualified/accredited by Thomas International, SHL, strengths profiling and emotional capital assessment in delivering a wide variety of psychometric assessments.

We find these invaluable in learning more about the specific characteristics of an individual and use the outcomes to develop support packages to match individual and team needs, which benefits the whole business. We also find them particularly useful in recruitment, either during candidate assessment or onboarding new employees.

THOMAS INTERNATIONAL – PPA

This behaviour assessment (PPA) provides rapid and deep insights into a person’s behavioural preferences and communication style. Using four main profile factors: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance, Thomas’ Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) provides information on an assessment taker’s fears, motivators, values and behaviours.

THOMAS INTERNATIONAL – TEIQUE

This assessment (Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire) allows a better understanding of employees’ emotions and how they approach the emotions of others in the workplace.
It helps to:

  • Understand employees’ emotions
  • Understand how an employee manages relationships
  • Employ candidates with effective communication skills
  • Foster engagement and loyalty throughout the company
  • Fine-tune employees’ management skills
  • Recruit emotionally intelligent candidates

SHL – OPQ

As one of the longest standing and most “Validated” Assessment Tools, the OPQ is widely regarded as a solid standard for Executive Assessment. Accurate, bias-free assessments of potential by matching individual working preferences directly to business requirements.

Participants first answer a series of simple questions about their working preferences. This helps us understand which areas of the universal competency framework they are strongest in, and
where they might require some development.

STRENGTHS PROFILING – CAAP

This is an online self-assessment tool designed to help people to identify, classify and measure their strengths. It is designed to develop a clear understanding of what individual strengths people have and how to further develop their strengths to be their best self at work, individually or as part of a team.

The tools helps to develop a simple language to move people to meaningful action in their role at work (and in their life). The tool is supported by debriefs from our experienced and accredited practitioners in using this tool. The assessment can be created for individuals and a report can also be generated to identify the strengths of specific teams and is supported by insights for Team Managers to ensure that they can bring out the best in their teams and how they can best relate to individuals too.

The Strengths Profile includes the identification of specific career opportunities matched by a person’s unique combination of strengths. This is a particularly useful tool for career development, career transition, outplacement and talent development within an organisation

EMOTIONAL CAPITAL ASSESSMENT – ECA

This is an online psychological assessment tool which measures an individual’s capacity to use their emotional intelligence to develop their leadership capability.

This tool has been proven to help people reach their potential, or change some difficult behaviours that may be limiting their performance. Changing behaviour isn’t a straightforward process, but the reliability of this assessment tool helps people to develop a deep understanding of themselves in a measurable way.

The ECR is available as a self-assessment report or a 360 tool. The 360 includes feedback from Managers, Peers, and Direct reports and can include stakeholders too. The assessment is carried out by our accredited ECR practitioner on the team and we recommend that the tool is supported by a programme of 1:1 or Team Coaching by our ECR expert. Further input can be offered through workshops focussing specifically on the ECR Competency framework to help individuals and groups to better understand the importance of Emotional Intelligence in their leadership and management development and set specific and measurable goals for themselves in a supportive environment.

The ECR has been used extensively by EasyJet, Sky and Network Rail.

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What our clients are saying

  • The wonderful support from SYLO Beyond HR has enabled us to ensure our foundations are in place to support growth, whilst also maintaining and driving the culture that is important for us to have in place.  They have truly worked in partnership with us and provide consistent support to help us drive priorities forward.

    It’s great to have an HR partner that feels part of our team, is available for whenever something comes up and that continues to work with us as our organisation grows.

    Carolyn Hicks, Co-founder/CFO COO – Brill Power

  • Sarah allows our business to concentrate on the jobs we set out to do, and not have to worry about the HR input, with a highly professional service that she provides. 

    Stuart Barr, Director – Barr Group, Thame

  • Thanks to Jilli Broadhurst from SYLO | Beyond HR for visiting the Richardsons’ office last week for a CPD session with the team.

    She led the Richardsons team in a session that covered adapting their communications approach to have the best possible interactions with colleagues, peers and clients.

    The session also covered other key skills such as tactics for providing constructive feedback and effectively delegating.

    Here at Richardsons, we’re proud to be an experienced training firm – and an important part of that commitment is offering our team these kinds of opportunities to learn the skills they need to grow their careers and better support our clients.

    Thanks again to Jilli and SYLO HR!

    Jemima King, Partner, Richardsons

  • SYLO Beyond HR delivered a series of seven Manager Skills sessions for our managers between October 2024 and early 2025, delivered through a blend of face‑to‑face and online workshops.

    The programme covered essential topics for our managers, including Being a Role Model, Communication Skills (Parts 1 & 2), Empowering Others, Basics of HR, Techniques for Handling Difficult Situations, and Giving and Receiving Feedback.

    The training was practical, engaging, and tailored to our organisation, while also being delivered a in a human way. Our managers particularly valued the real‑world examples, the safe space created for discussion, and the actionable tools they could use immediately in their roles.

    The skills sessions have had a positive impact in how our managers communicate, set expectations, and handle challenging situations with greater confidence.

    SYLO’s facilitators were knowledgeable, supportive, and highly engaging throughout the programme. We would happily recommend SYLO Beyond HR to any organisation looking to strengthen their management capability.

     

    Petrova Caldecourt, Partner, For and on behalf of Lightfoot Solicitors

  • ​I found working with SYLO incredibly comfortable.  They helped me to define the real issues and then guided me through figuring out a solution. This resulted in a huge shift in the workload I was carrying to manageable levels, greater and welcomed empowerment for the talent in my team, and a manager (mine) who was fully up to speed on what was actually going on.

    Georgina Carey, Senior Manager – Transport For London

Awards and Accreditations

  • South & Vale
  • Engagement Awards
  • Breathe
  • Thomas
  • SHL