by Warren Bobrow | Jan 7, 2014 | Leadership, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
There are as many measures of leadership success as there are theories of leadership: Follower satisfaction, lower turnover, higher productivity, etc. However, at the end of the day, successful leadership is one component to a successful organization. So, what’s a...
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 9, 2013 | Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
After the 1992 riots, the City of LA decided it needed 10,000 police on the streets (I have no idea how they came up with that number, except that it’s sexier than 9,423). The LA Times reports that officials blame budget cuts which have reduced recruiting campaigns. ...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 11, 2013 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing
No full blog this week, but I wanted to remind you that 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. Also, I heard a very...
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 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...
