Empowering Your Personal and Leadership Development
Platform
Designed by leading educators, PaLDIP allows individuals and teams to capture, measure and develop their soft skills through engaging activities and psychometric assessments.
The platform includes an app store – the PaLDIP marketplace – of interactive activities, surveys and validated instruments in the areas of wellbeing, positive psychology, leadership, motivation and personal effectiveness.
Individuals can aggregate a portfolio and showcase their results to fellow team members, employers and recruiters.
PaLDIP allows program directors, teachers, coaches, mentors and HR directors to track and measure the effectiveness of their programs at the individual and team level.
About Us
We are educators, researchers, engineers and trainers passionate about evidence-based personal and leadership development. We want to ensure that programs and interventions are measured for their efficacy and effectiveness and people learn more about their own personal and leadership development through engaging in tests, questionnaires and feedback from peers, mentors and managers.
Authenticity, Integrity and Empowerment.
We work across a range of sectors including high-schools, national and international tertiary institutions, corporate HR and leadership consulting, recruitment and sports associations.
We have the vision to transform individuals, teams and organisations through democratising and empowering personal and leadership development.
Features
- App store of pre-existing validated surveys and instruments, including:
- Wellbeing (World Health Organisation Well-being Index)
- Emotions (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule – PANAS)
- Motivation/Life Satisfaction (Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction & Frustration Scale)
- VIA Survey of Character Strengths (Peterson, Christopher & Seligman)
- Mindfulness (Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale)
- Empathy (The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire)
- Resilience (Brief Resilience Scale)
- Conflict Management (Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Management Styles)
Common Traits of all Users
They care about their students and their development and they care about their programs and how this impacts their students’ learning and development.
Individual User Level
Sam
Sam wants to provide meaningful rapid feedback to students from multiple sources, including class members, tutors and mentors who are involved in the course on a variety of activities. Sam wants to save time not having to collate feedback from the various sources and so allows PaLDIP to provide this rapidly back to students in real time. Sam is also able to provide in class and online real time feedback on activities that are visible to all students (in real time).
Sally (Lecturer)
Wants her student teams to pitch their project to a panel of industry judges. She uses PaLDIP to setup the teams and provides an easy access to judges to rate and judge the teams based on criteria Sally creates. Judges then judge the presentations and provide written feedback to student teams through the platform. This saves Sally time collating feedback and the delay in getting feedback back to students. Students can check their scores and feedback immediately after the presentation. Each team member in the team is able to see the score and feedback for their own team.
Bill (Lecturer)
Problem
Bill is using a plethora of different services to engage his students. These include polling websites to pose questions to students in class and visually provide insight into collective class responses, scenarios for students to post their responses and for Bill to show the diversity of perspectives in class. Bill often exports data from quizzes on the LMS, graphs them and sends them back to students, a very cumbersome process that is both error prone but also takes up alot of time to do.
Solution
Bill uses PaLDIP to create the polls and activities and for students to engage in these and be able to have access to the results after class for further reflection. The results are instantaneously accessible to students, while saving Bill previous time by not having to manually manage the data.
Maria (Senior Lecturer)
Maria wants to understand the impact of her course on her students, in particular in relation to soft skills and leadership skills which are difficult to measure with just quizzes, assignments and tests. She uses a variety of quantitative and qualitative tools to do a baseline measure of where her students are before class course begins and multiple measures throughout the course and after they complete the course to both understand her students’ progressive development. Since Maria is also making this data appears on the student platform, students can reflect on their results and do some reflections on their development. Since Maria also has ethics clearance, she is also able to do longitudinal and cross section research studies on her students’ data by exporting the results of the activities via the export function.
George (Lecturer)
George wants to run some team activities and wants team members to give each other feedback on their communication effectiveness. George uses PaLDIP to allows students to give each other feedback and score on a response to a “difficult team member” scenario. George then decipher’s why the top best response received the highest score from all the class members. George finds this more effective than being the only judge of the best communication.
Kayla (Leadership Coach)
Kayla has recently started on the journey of developing a leadership development course and wants to use validated existing instruments and interactive activities as part of her course. She uses PaLDIP to prepopulate her course with activities and validated psychometric instruments that her students can do and runs discussions around these in class, saving valuable time reinventing the wheel or trying to find these from various disjoint platforms and services.
Susan and Kepler (Psychologists)
Susan and Kepler and have developed an instrument that they want to provide to their trainees but have no platform to do it. They use PaLDIP to implement their instrument and provide this service to their users. Both Susan and Kepler are also able to validate their new instrument and also their participants are able to access this data.
Franko (Lecturer)
Bob wants to evidence the effectiveness of his class so that he can apply for promotions and awards. He uses PaLDIP to capture pre and post data to evidence this effectiveness using both qualitative and quantitative means.
Organizational Level
Learn about Current Employees
HR manager wants to learn more about their employees. They want to know more about personality types, how their employees work in teams, leadership effectiveness of their potential uprising leaders and sentimental data. They use PaLDIP to distribute activities and use the data captured to get a better understanding of their employees. They can then use this data to further develop the skills of and rotate individuals into the right roles if necessary.
Learn during the recruitment process
HR department uses PaLDIP to run several assessment tasks and uses this to identify the right person for the job.
Testimonials
PaLDIP has allowed me to evaluate and reflect on the development of my leadership and communication skills.
PaLDIP has had a substantial impact on the quality of students’ learning and engagement.
The activities on PaLDIP focused on the development of critical and strategic thinking as well as decision-making skills. These simulation activities enabled us to learn how to respond appropriately in a professional and social environment. The contexts presented in the activities encouraged me to think objectively, rather than subjectively.