With increasing understanding, companies are beginning to value the importance of taking care of people since in human talent lies the ability to manage internal processes well and make businesses sustainable in competitive and changing environments.
Over the years, in the exercise of accompanying companies in the development of sustainable well-being models, impacting turnover, loyalty and of course the results in financial terms, it has become increasingly necessary to have processes that allow enter the universe of people from the logic of responsibility
In recent years, I have accompanied large companies in the development of clinical selection models and I am increasingly convinced of the value of putting the lens of understanding others, with the interest of taking care of the two axes: The Human Being and productive/competitive environment.
What is the Selection Model with a Clinical Approach?
Nothing is more beautiful than choosing people for roles from care, whatever the level of execution of the role, but that is aligned with the Organizational culture, with its values and with the possibilities of development.
The selection model with a clinical focus is developed tailored to each organization and will depend on those who inhabit this ecosystem; its leaders, its conversations, its purpose, its market, its composition and Brand and business DNA, this crossed by perception and words.
Where does a Clinical Selection Model take us? The model It is built on the epistemological bases of Clinical Psychology, especially Dynamic Psychology for its strong understanding of the axes that make up the Psyche of the Human Being: I – It – Super Ego and especially the Universe of the Unconscious. Carl Jung is one of the theorists who has the most relevance in the methodological foundation of the clinical model, since his research and theories reveal truths that facilitate the understanding of the concept of the Self, from the individual and collective point of view.
Jung exposes the characterization of the Unconscious in people’s lives, its timeless, innocent manifesto, its fundamental laws and above all the content that inhabits it; the value of the information contained therein. Therefore, getting to sail in these waters is of special value to people who lead and are responsible for the selection processes of the organizations, and who are committed to taking care of the coherence of their processes, also addressing an important challenge that has to do with the responsibility and care of the people who are in quality of candidates.
The clinical selection model allows read predictive and postdictive components of human behavior , based fundamentally on background, life history, choices, motivation, learning, skills, attitudes and aptitudes; everything else contained in the Universe of the Unconscious. Hence the importance of having Psychologists and human specialists, to be able to navigate these waters with caring elements and facilitating instruments that allow us to enter the depths of the unconscious content.
We know, among other truths, that the content of consciousness is limited , and that in it there is information that is of little use when it comes to asking ourselves questions that go beyond banality, that go deep. What is truly profound is found in that portion of the 90% of the human psyche that stores this valuable content: The unconscious.
And how do we get to the unconscious content? In a responsible and empathetic manner. The people responsible for the selection processes must have a fundamentally human training, and must be trained to hold deep conversations, capable of reading corporality, the symbolic, essentially trained in the Socratic method, with high argumentative, critical and creative that allows you to lead others along the path of truth, to then interpret this information and make it manifest with the logic of the organization, responsibly.
The selection model with a clinical approach allows understand and understand the ability of the individual to manage himself , and interact with the challenges and changes in the environment. In addition, it allows the development route to be traced so that that person can continue advancing in their evolution, taking into account the generation of value, without requiring unsustainable resignations for the person that impact their psychological system, their mental health and their physical health.
As human beings we are more than the sum of our parts; We are body (matter), mind (thought), and spirit (soul), and this master triad interacts in a robust business dynamic that, from its logic of communication and interaction, may or may not facilitate the development of the person’s potential or, On the contrary, succumb in the attempt.
A clinical selection model well adjusted to the demands and realities of the competitive environment delivers immediate results, which in the end They are summarized in financial care for the organization , since happy and connected people in their jobs, in sync with their life purpose, are people capable of challenging themselves, of going beyond; They are curious, they give their full potential and experience true flow experiences, as Mihaly would say, and this is well explained in detail by Positive and Strength Psychology, where the clinical model is also complemented by these theoretical positions of well-being.
What should we take into account to build a clinical selection model?
The first thing is the value that companies give to people Embarking on a selection model with a clinical approach from the outset is connected to the coherence of well-being and care.
It involves deep conversations, it involves taking responsibility, it involves having a selection team well-informed in the theories of clinical psychology or at least being sensitive to them, it involves going through the discomfort of understanding that sometimes what we expect is not what is expected. It adjusts to who we are, it implies movement, it implies coherent and responsible leaders, it implies critical views, it implies saying no, the kind that sometimes makes us uncomfortable.
It is a model so rich that it is not static, it’s completely changeable which leads to deep conversations and study groups where the individual’s understanding of new realities and ways of existing is facilitated.
What is your most valuable input?
The clinical interview based on the Socratic Method and the art of maieutics that Socrates left us as a gift. A selection model with a clinical perspective does not need more than this input. It does not require an approach of psychotechnical tests and endless batteries that sell you “the truth”, a very rigged truth that does not respond to the realities of environments and people in their complete understanding and dimension, they are nothing more than standardized indicators that are far from They are about building sustainable truths in today’s world, a deep world, where there are as many truths as there are living people.
