by Warren Bobrow | Dec 8, 2016 | Assessment Centers, Leadership, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Training and Development
I cannot tell you how many times I have worked with a client who has told me some sort of story about how they promote from within, but have a problem with the supervisors and/or managers not being able to let go of wanting to do the technical work instead of managing...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 10, 2016 | Leadership, Performance, Talent Management
Like many other businesses, baseball has undergone a significant change in how it uses data to evaluate talent (see Moneyball). As with all paradigm changes, this has encountered a fair amount of resistance, but now every team in the league uses some form of...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 25, 2016 | Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
The idea of implicit bias has been making its way into the business vernacular. It involves the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. As you probably gathered from the definition, implicit bias is...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 3, 2016 | Analysis, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
In validating tests, getting a hold of good individual performance data is key. But, it is also one of the more difficult parts of the process to get right. Intuitively, we all think we can judge performance well (sort of like we all think we are good interviewers). ...
by Warren Bobrow | Sep 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
My summer posting hiatus is almost up. In the meantime, here’s a good read: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wells-fargos-avalanche-dennis-adsit?trk=mp-author-card Dennis beat me to the punch here. 5,300 people (at least) doing something wrong is not some...