Kevin Jooste

Experience

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  Groenpunt Correctional Services

  Jun 2009 - Jul 2009

  Training and development facilitator/consultant

  Developed and conducted a training and development workshop for 22 prisoners in the Medium B facility of the Groenpunt Correctional Services Facility.The workshop facilitated prisoner self knowledge and understanding, such that their relations with others are more positive in nature.Utilisation of psychometric measures and team building activities to facilitate prisoner personal and extra-personal understanding.

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  Various Higher Education Institutions

  Feb 2010 - now

  Senior Lecturer/Industrial Psychologist/Research Supervisor

  People Development Outcomes:Design & execution of organisational talent management programmes;Investigation of sources of organisational talent, potential reasons for talent migration, actions required for talent retention and processes required to create ‘talent incubators’ within the organisation;Design, development & execution of assessment centres for various positions;Design, development & execution of organisational climate and culture assessments;Measurement of staff and student satisfaction, areas of development and critical success aspects;Measurement of the relative return on investment of people-focused decisions, including; training & development; remote working practices; flexible working hours; online lecturing/training;Higher Educational Outcomes:Ground up curriculum design, development and execution of B.A. Organisational Psychology for a large private higher education conglomerate – primary focus on practical and relevant modules toward the development of future IOP’s (including; practical counselling, positive psychological practice, practical psychometry, career psychology and work-integrated learning for final year students);Ground up curriculum design, development and execution of B.A. Hons. Organisational Psychology for a large private higher education conglomerate – with focus on practical skills development and application, through use of workshop-focused contact sessions; industrial theatre; practically- orientated assignments; and real-world people development at various small to medium enterprises.Design and quality assurance of all related formative and summative assessments – internal and external moderator to 11 national campuses. Lecturing of final year students & supervision of work-integrated learning programme.Research supervision of Honours and Masters level students. Research focus: applied positive psychology.Assistance in training with the IBM Statistics Package for the Social Sciences: Honours & Masters Students. Show less

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  Sasol

  Feb 2010 - Dec 2010

  Intern Psychologist and Consultant

  Specific Role Outcomes:Development of employee skills as regards anger management, customer relations, dispute resolution and employee comprehension of company policy.Identification of workplace challenges, both in terms of resources and systems that hinder employee performance and application of skills to be developed during training.Integration of unique employee workplace challenges into the training and development sessions, such that employee experiences could be related to the training content.Development of employee understanding as regards the nature of personality and the impact it has on human relations at work.Practical application of said skills in both the training environment and the work environment (workplace transfer of skills).Team-building sessions with work groups, with focus on dispute resolution techniques and the maintenance of positive internal/external customer relations.Regular follow up sessions with employees in their work environment to identify challenges and blockages to the application of training knowledge and skills.Identification and promotion of "employee champions" who championed and supported the training process, such that employee buy-in was promoted.Identification of key plant stakeholders to the organisation wide training and development process.Liaison to key plant stakeholders in arranging appropriate schedules to develop and train employees.Identification and communication with stakeholders as regards training venues and appropriate training media such as projectors, projection screens, computers, desks, chairs and tables.Preparation of training related materials such as business games and practical exercises.Assistance in the maintenance of the plant office to ensure optimal operations management.Creation, distribution and assessment of training and development initiatives held in various plants and relaying such information to key stakeholders such as the EXCO. Show less

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  KJ Jooste & Associates Incorporated

  Sept 2014 - now

  Medico-Legal Expert/Industrial Psychologist

  Specific Role Outcomes:Quantification of plaintiff loss of earnings and earnings capacity in Road Accident Fund (RAF) claims, retinopathy-of-prematurity claims, medical malpractice claims, and personal injury claims.Collection and analysis of biographical and employer information in relation to the merits of each claim; Conduct telephonic, email and in person collateral interviews with references and employers (investigate the claimant’s pre-morbid work behaviour, potential for promotion, performance and comparability to colleagues, etc.);Determination of past and future loss of earnings (or total loss of earnings, where applicable); Justification of findings in respect of current and future employability of the claimant, and of determined quantum for each matter;Integration of biographical information, test results, and other medico-legal expert reports into a medico- legal report for the purposes of determining quantum (claim value);Compilation of Expert Joint Minutes between opposing parties for submission to the High Court;Provide evidence in the High Court, in which findings of reports are justified, viewpoints and clarified/elaborated upon for the Court, undergo cross-and-re-examination of arguments in chief.Key Role Statistics:Assessment of, report completion, and assistance in loss of earnings settlement of over 300 medico-legal claims to date.Assessment of over 500 clients to date.Provision of expert testimony in over 45 matters to date, with over 100 Court appearances to date. Show less

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  PsyQ Consulting

  Jan 2019 - now

  Principal Industrial Psychologist

  Managing Director and Principal Organisational Psychologist, with special interest in Positive Psychology, Systems Psychodynamics and Rogerian approaches to organisational development.Specific Role Outcomes:Personal & Executive Coaching and Career Counselling – primary focus on salutogenesis, evidence-based coaching practice, applied positive psychology, strengths-focus, and forging balance between work-home, and home-work interfaces, whilst applying the principles of Socratic dialogue and questioning to gain perspective and depth on presenting issues and developmental areas; Organisational Development – diagnosis, measurement, assessment of key people development, and structural issues, with balance between macro and micro people issues and key understanding of the organisational narrative, and manner in which roles are played out/executed;Development, execution and maintenance of talent management solutions;Design, development and implementation of assessment centres;Conflict management and reforging of organisational relationships;Trauma debriefing (industrial action, robberies, deaths, disputes);Retirement/Retrenchment Counselling (debriefing of candidates to retrenchment, building of meaningful personal development and life meaning for those going into retirement);Team development and cohesion building;Team consultation (analysing the grass-roots needs of teams, unpacking core team and organisational issues, development of personal and team action-plans, reporting key issues to management, implementing structural and people-focused interventions);Team Intelligence workshops – Building of team EQ, both on an inter-and-intra-personal basis, with focus on personal strengths awareness, strengths harnessing, and forging of team cohesion through meaningful, and people focuses approaches to communication, conflict resolution and social support mechanisms. Show less