by Warren Bobrow | Dec 16, 2013 | Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
Each time I read an article in the business press on Big Data and hiring I chuckle. The authors always make it sound like businesses have just recently discovered how to measure attributes about lots of people and apply them to hiring. The only difference now is...
by Warren Bobrow | Dec 2, 2013 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance, Talent Management
Regardless of whatever leadership theory (or theories) you subscribe to, no one questions that effective leaders have good two-way communications skills. They have to have the ability to both get their ideas across and be able to create an environment where others...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 5, 2013 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Talent Management
Before getting into this week’s topic, I’ll be speaking on how good employee selection/promotion processes can help you to optimize the workplace in Long Beach, California on November 13th. For more information, click here. Anyone who works in or for a...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 25, 2013 | Leadership, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
I was a guest blogger this week on the Human Capital Institute website. The post is about what leadership capabilities we can and cannot measure well. You can read it at http://www.hci.org/blog/leadership-assessment-nailing-jello-wall.
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 14, 2013 | Performance
When I was in college, several of us would joke that you could not cheat on an economics test because each year the questions were the same, but the answers were different. In those days, capitalist economic theory was driven by the presumption that the actors...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 7, 2013 | Analysis, Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI
As of this writing it is a bad time to write about government productivity given the current shutdown in Washington. But, in many places local government is one of the largest employers and their HR policies (and how they are managed) have a big impact. In Los...
