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Why High Potential Employees Fail to Make the Effort
If you believe that past performance is a good predictor of future success, think again. Recent research has all but debunked the popular hiring model suggesting that success in the past can be replicated in the future based on innate talent (personality tests,...
Share Your Story! Has a Bad Company Culture Turned You Away?
Many employers are struggling to find qualified workers. An oppressive company culture may be turning away skilled workers and qualified applicants. I'm seeking your help. If you've been the victim of a bad company culture or negative co-workers and bosses, please...
Culture fit? There’s an App for that!
Culture fit is very often the determining factor on whether an employee stays at a job long-term. With one out of two workers quitting before 18 months, managers could use some help. Despite years of urging hiring managers and HR professionals to focus employee...
Innovation – The Secret Sauce of Creativity and Risk Taking
Some people think innovation is for geniuses. It's not. It does however require a basic understanding of creativity and risk taking... and a desire to shape the future rather than be shaped by it. Events don't write our future. It’s our response to those events...
Recruiting Job Candidates is Not a Game of Whack-a-Mole
If you’ve ever been assigned the task of recruiting job candidates to fill an opening, this is likely not news to you – whenever you think you found the pot of gold full of qualified applicants, you didn’t. Sourcing applicants and recruiting candidates these days...
Pre Employment Tests – Employers Love’m, Candidates Hate’m
For many job seekers, pre employment tests seem to be just one more hurdle to jump on the road to getting hired. It seems that many candidates feel the "test" is the only thing stopping them from collecting a paycheck. That's an inaccurate perception - or at least one...
How to Hire Employees Who Don’t Need A Kick in the Butt
Frustrated with hiring employees who only seem to be motivated when you kick them in the butt? You are not alone! Last night, I overheard a waiter sharing with guests at the next table that he really wanted to be an architect but he wasn't very good with math. "My...
8 Essential Tips for Recruiting More Qualified Job Candidates
From the number of calls I receive and reports I read, attracting skilled workers is not getting easier. Here’s 8 essential ways to find qualified employees. Stop recruiting like it's still 1970. It's 2014 -act like it. You are doing business in a new time and...
Good Manners Can Sometimes Interfere with Employee Performance
We often think about manners as either good or bad etiquette. You know - the Emily Post sort of stuff. But that is barely scratching the surface when it comes to evaluating employee performance. A good place to start is with a definition of etiquette. Etiquette is...
Employee Motivation: Beware the Employee Who Gives 110%!
Q: What does the “engaged, happy, productive, efficient” employee have in common with the “disengaged, grouchy, counter-productive, inefficient one” one? A: Motivation Yes, you read that right – motivation! How can that be you’re likely asking? Let me explain. Have...
