What Is AQR International?
AQR International is a highly innovative test publisher and OD consultancy. Now operating in over 80 countries, AQR Int. has, together with Peter Clough (Professor of Applied Psychology at MMU), developed the Mental Toughness measure MTQ48, a leading integrated leadership measure, ILM72 and with the Carrus partnership, CARRUS - a unique employability measure.
With offices in the UK, UAE and Poland, AQR International is focused on individual and organisational development – principally focused on performance, wellbeing positive behaviours. These translate into important and valuable outcomes.
We offer a range of innovative and accessible psychometric tests, tools and development programmes, designed to improve performance, wellbeing and positive behaviours with people of all ages and with organisations of all types. This takes AQR into applications in the world of work, education, youth development, sport, employability, health and social mobility.
What do we offer?
Our goal is tomake high quality psychometric tools and measures available widely to users of all types – managers, trainers, coaches and teachers - around the globe. These offer considerable value in helping trained users to make better decisions about people. In turn this leads to more effective intervention and development. This means ensuring that AQR's measures are:
§ Easy to understand by both users and test takers
§ Designed to be easy to administer & manage
§ Designed to support quality feedback to the test taker
Most measures are designed to measure change reliably. This enables real evaluation and the potential for assessing ROI.
In addition we offer development programmes which help users attend to needs which arise from the use of the models and measures. These can be delivered directly by the AQR team or can be offered in a Train the Trainer format.
In this way AQR International provides clients of all types with the opportunity for a complete solution for their issues.
What makes us unique?
As well as its breakthrough work on Mental Toughness, AQR has developed a range of practical psychometric measures which attend specifically to issues of direct concern to clients – leaders, managers, teachers, coaches, etc. This includes performance, attendance, stick-ability, employability, transition etc. All have impact on organisational performance too.
Carefully designed valid and reliable instruments enable the user to carry out two key tasks:
§ Diagnosis and evaluation of need. To make better decisions to be made about people and their skills, attributes and behaviour. From that to select and use interventions more accurately.
§ Help to measure change or progress around mindset, attributes and behaviour
Why are AQR measures different?
§ Their focus is always on outcomes
§ Extremely easy to use – on-line operation, automatically generates expert reports & short training for users
§ Make full use of new technology. All feature Databases, which allow data to be accessed and re-used.
§ Comparatively inexpensive to use – no annual licence fee – cost is on a per use basis
§ High quality – we pilot real programmes to evidence our work. Much is published in academic journals.
Assessments and Development Tools Overview
ILM Qualifications, Licensed User and Development Programmes
AQR International has developed an expertise and capability in providing short, sharp training courses, to long term development programmes, from facilitating visioning sessions with Directors to building cohesive work teams throughout the organisation.
Training Interventions involve enhancing the performance of individuals through both individual coaching and group training sessions.
AQR International is an International ILM Centre. We deliver:
Leadership and Management Programmes at levels: 2, 3 and 5
Coaching and Mentoring Programmes at levels: 2, 3, 5 and 7
Other programmes that we offer include:
Licensed User Training (MTQ48, ILM72, Carrus and 360) – licensing programme which enables individuals to develop their confidence when using a measure.
Mental Toughness Development Programme – intervention based programme, which up skills individuals in a range of tools and techniques they can use to develop their client and own Mental Toughness.
Developing Leadership Resilience and Effectiveness Programme – this programme enables leaders to develop strategies and plans to help them perform under pressure, and to support others around them as well as to develop their own leadership style.
Developing Resilient Team Programme – this programme enables teams to develop strategies and plans to help them perform under pressure, and to support each other. This leads to better performance and wellbeing. They will learn to approach challenge, stress & pressure with a positive ‘can do’ attitude. Highly successful programme for organisations which aim to develop strong culture of team working and team resilience.
In addition to the above we offer:
Our experience has proven that any development or coaching programme can be enhanced by the application of our leading edge psychometric tools.
At the start of a programme they are an effective diagnostic and can provide the basis for targeted intervention.
They can also provide a measure post training of how far individuals have moved forward through their training and performance improvement and therefore return on investment.
AQR is also involved in a consultancy work.