by Ira Wolfe | Aug 16, 2002 | Employee Performance Management, Employment Testing, In The News, Leadership
by Dennis Reardon (staff writer) Fred Engle knows all too well the importance of cross training workers. While running a carpet and rug business in Lancaster County in the 1980s, one of Engle’s most valuable employees decided to quit. The company struggled to...
by Ira Wolfe | May 5, 2002 | Employment Testing, Hiring Process
As accounting was to Enron, selecting and hiring employees is to many companies. Decisions are biased and mistakes buried. The gap between what you would like people to do and what they actually do can be quite frustrating. But ultimately getting people to do what...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 1, 2002 | Employment Testing
Shhh! Let’s listen to a conversation between Glenn, Michelle and Bob during their weekly sales meeting. Glenn, the sales manager, is struggling with weak sales and what he feels is a sales force lacking ……… Glenn: We are barely holding our own. Sales are flat....
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 16, 2001 | Employee Performance Management, Employment Testing
Today’s manager is really the conductor of his own orchestra. Like an orchestra, no matter how good you are, you sometimes need to stop and re-sync. Were the violins too loud? Could you hear the flutes? How did the composer mean for the music to be played? Top...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 5, 2001 | Employment Testing, In The News
BUSINESS MONDAY, February 5, 2001 By Susan Lindt Intelligencer Journal Staff It’s a matter of dollars and cents. Make that dollars and sensibilities. Personality profiling, the latest buzz term to hit local businesses, might just turn a strife-torn workplace...
