by Warren Bobrow | Jan 7, 2013 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
I’m always interested in reading about leadership and selection issues from a different perspective. As in any field, HR (and industrial psychology) can become an echo chamber of the same ideas without generating much new thought. With that in mind, I was fascinated...
by Warren Bobrow | Dec 18, 2012 | Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI, Talent Management, Training and Development
Most employees need training after they are hired, particularly at the entry level. If you read here regularly, you know that I’m a big proponent of using validated selection tools when hiring and promoting. It’s just more cost effective. Recently, I was reading...
by Warren Bobrow | Dec 11, 2012 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Training and Development
I was at an event for healthcare executives last week and one of the panel discussions was on which leadership skills are needed for the future in the industry. Afterwards, I spoke to some on the panel and a few other attendees and asked them, “How do you identify...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 28, 2012 | Leadership, Legal Issues, Performance, Training and Development
“Are you my supervisor?” It seems like a pretty straightforward question. In most organizations there is someone is who responsible for directing another person’s work. Where this gets tricky is when the organization is being sued for harassment or some other nasty...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 13, 2012 | Commitment, Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Surveys, Talent Management, Training and Development
While this post is about the election, it is NOT about politics. Rather, it’s about decision making and how letting pre-determined analyses about the facts affect the process. In this case, the facts were the polling data regarding the presidential election (you can...
