by Ira Wolfe | Sep 11, 2012 | Employee Performance Management
It’s Fall again. That means football season has begun….and employee performance reviews are starting to chill the air between employers and employees. But football affords an excellent analogy about how effective employee feedback is supposed to work. The...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 8, 2012 | Employment Testing
For some reason, many managers and human resources professionals feel employee interview screening is safe and personality tests are risky. Little do they know that the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) and other laws protecting employees require that the...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 6, 2012 | Employment Testing
The “Big 5” personality factors used for employee screening represent five personality dimensions used to assess job applicants and employees. The theory based on the Big Five factors is called the Five Factor Model (FFM). This model first emerged in the...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 4, 2012 | Employment Testing
What is it that differentiates the top producing salespeople from the ones that go through life working very hard to eek out a paycheck? Is it sales knowledge? Is it experience? Or is it personality? With over 16 million people employed in sales and sales-related...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 4, 2012 | Employee Performance Management
The first and most important ingredient in managing performance is honesty. In order for a performance appraisal to have any benefit at all, managers and employees must be honest with each other and the process. Managers must candidly address not only the perceived...
