by Ira Wolfe | Sep 24, 2012 | Employee Performance Management, Employment Testing
How does a business start to improve the feedback it gives and receives? It begins with self-awareness. Self-awareness goes well beyond just taking a DISC or Myers-Brigg Type assessment. Yes, these tools are a means to the end. Too many organizations unfortunately...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 18, 2012 | DISC, Employment Testing
HOW DISC STYLES LEARN Each D-I-S-C Style learns differently. D Behavioral StyleThe High D Style wants to see the schedule and agenda for what he/she is going to be asked to learn. This style has a preconceived mindset about nearly any topic or issue. This means that...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 17, 2012 | Employment Testing
In today’s world where most businesses tend to make excuses or ignore their customers, I’m pleased to say at least one Hard Rock Cafe manager differentiated himself following a bad experience at one of the chain’s restaurants. This incident offers...
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...
