by Ira Wolfe | Jul 31, 2013 | Employment Testing, Leadership
What does it take to hire effective leaders – or any new employee for that matter? Managers tend to be a bit myopic when filling front line manager positions. Senior management and HR seem to agree. In the DDI Finding the First Rung study, only 31 percent of HR...
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 29, 2013 | Employment Testing, Leadership
Success Performance Solutions Close Leadership Skill Deficit with Management Testing (via SBWire) Lancaster, PA — (SBWIRE) — 07/25/2013 — Google “management test” and in a split second over 1.2 billion results appear. People might think with the...
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 27, 2013 | Leadership
Companies are experiencing a critical leadership skills gap. It is so serious that according to one recent study, only 18 percent of HR professionals rate their leadership bench strength as strong or very strong. Not much better (19 percent) was their confidence in...
by Ira Wolfe | May 22, 2013 | Employment Testing, Leadership
Passion, confidence, ambition, creativity, focus – these are all highly desirable attributes of any successful leader. But like almost every quality that people possess, when overextended our strengths can become weaknesses. And with just a glance through Wall...
by Ira Wolfe | Apr 16, 2013 | Employment Testing, Leadership
How Leadership Assessment Tests Can Predict the Rise and Fall of a High-Potential Superstar Case Study Bob Smith (name changed) had been the darling of senior management and board of directors (BOD). Bob is the CFO of an up and coming professional services firm. The...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 24, 2013 | Leadership
Innovation is not something you do at will. Innovation is often associated with the light bulb that is switched on suddenly to energize a business and jump start growth. To the contrary, innovation describes a company culture, a philosophy. Innovation is not something...
