by Warren Bobrow | Feb 28, 2017 | 360 Feedback, Assessment Centers, Leadership, Performance, Talent Management
At a recent professional conference I attended there was a lot of talk about high potentials. Specifically, how to best measure potential versus actual performance (good luck getting managers to understand the difference). The idea of identifying high potentials...
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...
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 | Jan 25, 2016 | Leadership, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
There is a parlor game in some circles which asks whether any organization would hire Steve Jobs using “traditional” selection tools to run a company. The conversation can be held for any person who is seen as an outsider who succeeds. Part of this discussion is moot...
