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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...
SPS President Ira S Wolfe Accepted into Forbes Coaches Council
The Forbes Coaches Council recently announced that Ira S Wolfe was chosen to join its elite group of executive leadership coaches. Wolfe is Founder and President of Success Performance Solutions and author of Perfect Labor Storm...
Pre-Employment Testing Removes Complexity, Reduces Mistakes
Could the author Tom Wolfe have been referring to pre-employment personality tests when he wrote: "The idea was to prove...that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and....join the special few at the...
Personality Assessment Tests Crack the Job Fit Code
How does personality assessment testing help find the right employee for the job? Before we get into personality assessment testing, let’s start with what personality is. Personality is typically defined as the unique bundle of motivations, attitudes and behaviors...
Employee Turnover? Ask These 8 Questions to Fix It
Employee turnover is affecting every organization in every industry from Iowa to India, from California to China. It doesn’t seem to matter if you are a small company or a multi-national, whether you’re selling food, clothes, and technology or providing healthcare to...
Avoid These 4 Mistakes When Using Pre-Employment Assessment Tests
Pre-employment assessment tests are being integrated into the hiring process of many organizations at an exponential rate. While they help contribute to impressive improvements in reducing turnover and improving productivity, a dose of caution should be included. Here...
Is Texting the Next Big Thing in Recruiting
At first glance texting and interviewing candidates seems to go together as well as ketchup and lobster. But if you think about it just a minute, mobile recruiting via text has a lot of potential for human resources, especially when hiring millennials. First of all,...
