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How To Improve Leadership Skills In 4 Steps All leadership qualities can be learned. The hard part is identifying the qualities that you must learn to succeed as an effective leader. Follow these steps today to find out how to improve your leadership skills. Read More...
4 REASONS HIRING THE WRONG PERSON FOR SALES COSTS MORE THAN YOU THINK
The costs of hiring the wrong person stack up. Combinations of time, money, and resources are invested with little or no return on the employer’s investment. Few people would argue otherwise. In fact, according to an Undercover Recruiter article, the average bottom...
Podcast
Executive Innovation host Carrie Chitsey Wells has Ira Wolfe, President of Success Performance Solutions, on the show. They talk about what is keeping HR executives and hiring managers up at night. Show highlights: 1. Hiring and Recruiting technology innovation: it's...
YOU’RE SCREENING CANDIDATES WRONG
3 strategies that will change the way you screen One day employees seem to be on the top of the world, firing on all cylinders. The next day their lives and careers implode. Why does this happen? Why does this happen? A lack of emotional intelligence may provide the...
PROS AND CONS OF USING PRE-EMPLOYMENT ASSESSMENT TESTS
"Recruiting the wrong people can make or break a startup. Whether it be the wrong cultural fit, lack of skills, or poor attitude, when you’re a small team it’s near impossible to make up for a bad hire. Pre-employment testing has emerged as one tool recruiters can use...
Men Lie, Women Lie, Numbers Don’t. – Why We Need Better Hiring Data
9 out of 10 Hiring decisions are still based on “gut instinct.” This isn’t only a huge problem; it’s downright scary—and really expensive too. As recruiters and hiring managers we all make mistakes. That’s just human nature. Unintended bias just royally screws up our...
What If It Wasn’t Bad Millennial Attitude but Low Emotional Intelligence?
Sociology professor Tony Campolo said, “I am convinced we don’t live in a generation of bad kids. We live in a generation of kids who know too much too soon.” That shifts the conversation from attitudes about a generation of immature, narcissistic, and spoiled young...
WHAT’S NEXT? 21ST CENTURY LEADERSHIP SKILLS | PODCAST
What’s next for modern leadership skills and the future of work? In these VUCA (Volatile-Uncertain-Complex-Ambiguous) times, what’s next seems to be top of everyone’s mind these days from the coffee shop to the board room. So it seemed pretty obvious that when Dr....
Tech Trends That Will Transform Work by 2020
This year (2017) will go down in history — but it may be nothing compared to the next four. Before the next race for the White House, we're poised to witness a big jump in technological advancement: the widespread rise of social media, artificial intelligence, an...
Why It’s (Finally) Time To Stop Bashing Millennials
I make my living from consulting, writing, and speaking about the multi-generation workforce. And even though they’ve now been in the workforce for 20 years, I’m still asked daily what I think about millennials. What’s behind this obsession with the millennials? It’s...
