If You Want to Lead, Please Raise Your Hand

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...

What Does the Presidential Election Tell Us About Executive Decision Making?

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...

How Strategy Fits with Buying or Developing Talent

by Warren Bobrow | Nov 5, 2012 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Training and Development

There was big news recently about Disney’s decision to buy LucasFilm, George Lucas’s company which is best known for owning the Star Wars franchise (movies, books, consumer products tie-ins, etc.) and the special effects house Industrial Light and Magic.  Disney made...

The Battles Selection Specialists Fight and a Question

by Warren Bobrow | Oct 22, 2012 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment

Imagine you are the V.P. of H.R. (or other position where you are responsible for the quality of people being hired by your organization) and your C.E.O is quoted in a national newspaper with the following excerpt: Q. Give me an example of how you [get a sense of...

Self Selecting Out

by Warren Bobrow | Oct 3, 2012 | Commitment, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management

So, you have spent a lot of time recruiting for an open position.  You get some good resumes and some of those people you talked to actually sound as if they could do the job.  This group gets whittled down some more through your interviews and you want to ensure you...

Performance of Support Functions

by Warren Bobrow | Sep 24, 2012 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Training and Development

There’s an interesting confluence of factors occurring in the National Football League (NFL) right now.  The NFL has locked out its referees over a pay and benefits dispute.  Why they did so is a whole other blog post.  The league is now employing referees from the...