by Warren Bobrow | May 10, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management
To use a tired cliché, they call it Show Business for a reason. Fortunately, within the last 10 years or so, the news media in Los Angeles has been covering that industry as it would any other large one in the region. So, it made a local splash when the Chairman and...
by Warren Bobrow | Apr 27, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Talent Management
Among the incentives employers provide are stock incentive programs. The thinking is simple—if someone is an owner of a company (no matter how small) they’ll act in a way that is more beneficial to the enterprise. With startups, it’s a bit of a gamble (take less...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 8, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management
With great fanfare, Intel announced recently that it is making progress in meeting its diversity goals. I’m not going to pick on their numbers as their current demographics are what they are. There are some good lessons we can learn from how they approached the issue....
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 2, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management
For the life of me, I cannot understand why some companies go out of their way to treat their employees poorly. It starts innocuously, like putting employees last in a mission statement. Then it morphs into thinking that people are really machinery (scientific...
by Warren Bobrow | Dec 21, 2015 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
Every generation gets over researched, and Millennials are no exception. I say over researched because it’s easy to stereotype younger workers based on this data. It’s almost like sewing on their Myers-Briggs type. Generations of workers are shaped by the culture of...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 25, 2015 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance, Training and Development
Organizational development specialists always tell us that change is difficult. They say that people are resistant to new things, are too comfortable in existing processes, and that we really need to be pushed or coddled to leap into the new. Others feel that change...
