Helping employees adopt a mindset for positive behavioral change can be a challenge. Positive and negative behaviors affect an individual’s productivity and communications, team functions, and interactions with clients. Performance-based behavioral assessments are helpful tools to identify the strengths and…
It is easy to wonder, what benefits as an organization (or as a manager) are you going to receive from using behavioral assessments in your employee / leadership development programs? Below are six good reasons why behavioral assessments and the…
“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” —Andy Stanley While you or I could tell a new hire or current employee exactly what areas they need to focus on developing, and…
Your hiring process should look something like the photo to the left, with two additional steps – assessment before the interview (to provide feedback to deepen your interview), and reference checks between the interview and offer. Hiring decisions should take…
A smartly dressed and polished candidate walks into your interview and presents herself very well. Her resume speaks highly of her achievements. Perfect scores, a stellar track record and even volunteering experience! She must be the one for the job,…
“Be filled with an enthusiasm for living, a joyous expectation of the more that is to be, and gratitude for what has been.” — Ernest Holmes It’s the end of one year, and soon will be the beginning of the…
“Many times crisis results when composure is missing.” – Glenn Llopis In my previous post A Closer Look at Composure I touched on what composure is. In this post I’m going to give you five steps that will decrease stress, and…
Composure…“Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.” — Horace 65-68 BC What image does “keeping an even mind” bring? For some it may bring calmness: the ability to reassure and lead when a disaster strikes. It…
You’ve just hired a candidate who you feel is perfect for your vacant position. Now what? It can be easy to make the mistake of waiting until the end of a probationary period to formally evaluate someone recently hired. But…
“By themselves character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here is an area where weakness is an absolute disqualification.” – Peter Drucker To some extent hiring is always a gamble, but all too many…