by Ira Wolfe | Sep 29, 2011 | Employee Performance Management
The dreaded annual performance review. This has to rank near the top of the list of necessary evils for managers and supervisors. The reasons are obvious: who looks forward to having to assess how someone is performing and providing him or her feedback? Many...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 24, 2011 | Employment Testing
Despite evidence to the contrary, many human resource professionals and hiring managers continue to discount the reliability and predictability of psychometric and cognitive pre-employment testing. Just a few days I gave a presentation to 50 HR professionals at a...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 10, 2011 | Hiring Process
Creating an effective employer interview question guide is a necessity for hiring qualified workers. But a simple search for the phrase “interview question guide” turns up 60,200,200 Google results in only 0.14 seconds. With such an ample supply of free advice, why...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 9, 2011 | Employee Performance Management
For years, the annual performance review has been an exhausting and unpleasant exercise in futility. Managers and employees alike have long dreaded the annual performance review, and many studies have shown it to be largely ineffective. They typically involve lots of...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 5, 2011 | Employment Testing
Not all salespeople are successful. Given the same experience and education, why do some salespeople succeed where others fail? Is it motivation? Product knowledge? Evidence suggests that key personality traits directly influence a top performers’ selling...
