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Success Performance Solutions Partners Opens Assessment Center with Georgia Employers’ Association
Success Performance Solutions has announced a new relationship with Georgia Employers’ Association (GEA). As part of the agreement, Success Performance Solutions (SPS) established an employee assessment center for GEA members. In addition to offering members its...
The High Cost of Low Employee Integrity | Workplace Ethics
There’s nothing quite as important to a business as integrity in the workplace. Theft, lying, chronic absenteeism, drug use, workplace disruptions — these are just a few consequences of hiring unethical employees. Employee ethics are vastly important to the health of...
Managers Can Learn From NFL Draft: Why High Potentials “Fumble”
Why do so many high-profile, high potential candidates and employees "drop the ball" when it is their time to shine? Hiring managers can learn a lot from the NFL. Many managers find it a mystery why so many high potential candidates and employees fail. It shouldn't...
The Biggest Motivation Mistake Managers Make
What's the biggest motivation mistake managers (and parents and teachers make?) It starts with 3 little words - "do your best.” These three little words are supposed to inspire you, to encourage you, to propel you on to greatness. The problem is that “doing your best”...
Self-Motivation or Raw Talent: Which is Better?
Self-motivation in the workplace is one of the employee traits sought by most managers. Just take a quick review of help wanted ads and job descriptions and large majority include some mention of it. It's also one of the most challenging qualities to define and prove....
Company Culture | Why Do So Many Recently Hired Top Performers Fizzle?
How important is company culture when it comes to hiring success? Part of the answer comes from a study published in the Harvard Business Journal. The authors investigated why so many top performers that move from company to company often perform more like comets than...
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...
