Lylie Beukes

Experience

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  Private Practice

  Feb 2003 - Apr 2008

  Consultant & Business Psychologist

  Responsibilities: establishing client relationships, project management, financial managementAreas of practice:Industrial psychology. Focus areas included: organisational climate, job satisfaction and team dynamics (surveys, report-writing and feedback); Psychometric assessment for recruitment; review and facilitation of a development centre; executive coaching; careers guidance for school leavers; workshop design and facilitation (e.g. emotional intelligence)Sport psychology. Individual coaching; Team coaching; Workshops (e.g. coping with anxiety); Lecturing, Team Psychologist for All Africa Games Team (140 athletes and 40 coaches from 11 different sports). Sports included, golf, equestrian sports, cycling, hockey, tennis, rugby, gymnastics, shooting (Olympic athlete)Educational psychology. Assessments, interviews, report-writing and feedback Show less

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  Mendas

  Mar 2009 - Jul 2009

  Associate Business Psychologist

  Psychometric assessment for recruitment and development

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  Zircon

  May 2010 - Aug 2010

  Associate Business Psychologist

  Psychometric assessment for recuitment

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  The Association for Business Psychology

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2012

  Member of the Board; Conference Dean

  Board Member. Sole achievements: increase of membership from 300 to 628 within six months. Actions included: improving communication (updating the content on the website & producing a marketing brochure), managing a team of volunteers, liaising with universities and marketing the annual conferenceConference Dean. The annual on-site 3-day conference consisted of 28 speakers, 150 residential delegates, exhibitors and sponsors. Responsibilities: organisation (marketing, sponsorship, speakers, entertainment, budget, strategy, branding, communication and management of a team of 15 volunteers). The conference made a profit of approximately £9 000.00. Show less

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  Self-Employed Contractor

  Aug 2010 - Sept 2012

  Business Psychologist

  Examples of my work included:Recruitment. Psychometric assessments, competency-based interviews and report-writing for senior roles within bankingTraining. Delivery of training courses for the qualification in level A and B occupational testing (ability and personality-NEO PI-R)Coaching. Assessment and feedback of the Wave personality inventory for senior managers at a public sector organisation (part of a development process)Research. Conducting interviews with construction workers regarding their attitude towards safetyFacilitation. Strategy session for 200 employees at a business school using open space methodology; Action learning for a local business association Show less

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  IBM

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2015

  Senior Consultant (Business Psychologist)

  My Responsibilities:Employee Engagement. Surveys and action plans. I worked with an international team. We conducted projects remotely and on-site.Psychometric Assessments. Sole responsibility for the project to adapt IBM’s international assessments for HPCSA registration - administration and feedback of tests, training psychologists and psychometrists in the use of the tests.

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  Fitz Best

  Sept 2015 - Aug 2019

  Founder & Business Psychologist

  We provided specific Business Psychology services to clients within Southern Africa. My responsibilities:Establish client relationshipsConducted client needs analysisDevelopment of bespoke solutions for clientsPreparation and submission of proposals to clientsContract finalisationProject preparation and planningFinancial management for the project Project managementFinal feedback to the clientProjects:Employee Engagement. Survey distribution, results presentation, facilitation and development of action plansRecruitment and selection. Audit of an existing recruitment process for the large-scale recruitment of apprentices, presentation of findings, implementation of solutions (e.g. selecting and using more appropriate psychometric tests, development of competency-based interviews)Coaching. Strengths-based coaching techniques for employees and leadersMedico-legal. Brief experience in this area under supervision Show less

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  EXess Africa

  Mar 2019 - now

  Director

  Industry: construction and engineering, with a special focus on renewable energyCurrently working in an advisory capacity. Responsibilities include: Corporate Governance; Employee Management (recruitment, onboarding, development, disciplinary procedures, retrenchment); Administrative Duties (office management, logistics, finance)

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  JQA

  Jan 2022 - now

  Business Psychologist

  Conduct assessments for a multinational FTSE 100 client across the globe for a variety of senior job roles. Largely for selection with some development (psychometrics, evaluation of assessments, senior hires and leadership assessment)