by Warren Bobrow | Jan 24, 2017 | Assessment Centers, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Something I hear frequently from clients is, “I wish I had a day/week/month to see my candidates do the job. Then I would make fewer hiring mistakes.” It is, of course, an intriguing idea. We test drive cars before we buy them. Why not try out people before we...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 16, 2017 | Commitment, Employee Engagement, Surveys
The business world is both transient and stable. People and priorities change, but as long as the organization is in existence it has processes that continue on. When the information gets disseminated is becomes institutional knowledge. We often connect this with...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 9, 2017 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance, Talent Management
I could fill up this post with examples of CEOs that got raises when the performance of the company they were running got worse. But, that’s too depressing. Rather, here’s a story about Tim Cook and other Apple executives getting their pay cut because the company did...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 4, 2017 | Leadership, Performance, Talent Management
I have some family owned businesses as clients. They do have an extra critical dynamic which makes them different from other businesses. As one owner said to me when trying to make a difficult retain/fire decision about a family member, “If Pat goes and then works...
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...
