World-Leading Solution, Now in South Africa
ThinkSales Corporation, in partnership with SelfManagement Group, now offers organisations expertise in attraction and selection of top potential sales candidates, succession planning, leadership development and career management.
A few impressive facts about SelfManagement Group:
- Operational for over 30 years
- Largest sales profiling company in the world, operating in 25 countries, 24/7, 365 days a year
- Consults with major corporations and has over 1 000 clients including: HSBC, Toyota, Philips, ADT, Bell, MetLife and Novartis
- First company to provide normative, psychometric profiles on the Internet and offers 100% on-demand electronic recruiting
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Who is SMG Group?
The SelfManagement Group is a group of companies whose main focus is on building self-managing cultures. For over 25 years, it has been finding, selecting and developing people to be self-managers. Top organisations are using SMG’s online screening and selection tools to improve performance by getting the right people doing the right things.
The self-management focused training and coaching programmes help clients improve performance by focusing on self-management in all its aspects (commitment, effort, attitude, and lifestyle management).
SMG partners with clients to attract and select top potential and maximise results through the use of proprietary, psychometric assessment tools, innovative self-management training, coaching and leadership consulting services. Its success has been built on a proven formula for the selection, training, coaching and retention of ‘self-managing’ individuals, sales professionals, service representatives, managers and leaders.
In the 1970’s, SMG was the first company to provide normative, psychometric profiles on the Internet and since then has become the largest sales profiling company in the world, operating 24/7, 360 days a year in 24 countries and in over 30 languages. SMG has had over 1 000 clients, including globally renown companies like Toyota, ADT, HSBC, Philips and Novartis.
SMG’s clients benefit from its dynamic network of recruitment, consulting, alliance and distribution partners. The 25 partner organisations are leaders in their respective fields and work as an extension of the SMG team.
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SMG Founders
The SelfManagement Group is managed by founder and chairman, John Marshall and managing partner, Bob McHardy.
John Marshall has a doctorate in Psychology from York University, where he also worked as an assistant professor. John’s doctoral thesis was on the effects and influences of competitive environments – of which he has first hand knowledge from his background as a hockey player in Philadelphia and while coaching hockey at York University and in Italy. He is a well recognised and sought after author, key note speaker, coach, organisational psychologist and innovative thought leader. Over a 25 year period, he has helped hundreds of organisations develop into self-managed high performance cultures.
Bob McHardy is a recognised thought leader, engaging key note presenter, accomplished author, management trainer, sales trainer and performance consultant. He has first hand understanding of the critical elements of performance that lead to personal and professional results. Bob knows the world of sales, sales management, and performance coaching, having spent 20 years running a successful high-performance sales culture. Since 1990, Bob has built the training division of Self Management Group, PLUS Corporation.
