by Warren Bobrow | Aug 27, 2012 | Commitment, Leadership, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management, Training and Development
Tom Varian asked me to comment on how to assess employee attitudes towards their leaders and how to develop personal connections between employees and CEOs and other leaders, with whom they may never personally interact. It’s an interesting topic and brings up a few...
by Warren Bobrow | Aug 20, 2012 | Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management, Training and Development
Many actions have unintended consequences. Assessment programs are no exception. When conducting assessments for development, most companies are looking to provide useful feedback to employees and to get them on the road to performance improvement. But other things...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 22, 2012 | Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
A recent journal article called into question whether performance really does look like a bell curve. You know, the distribution of anything that is flat towards the ends and fat in the middle. I have some quibbles with the article, particularly whether we would...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 21, 2012 | Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management, Test Validation
Another reminder that ALL of your hiring practices should be job related, even when looking into criminal recordshttp://tinyurl.com/7dod9ok. For more information on pre-employment testing, skills assessment, and talent management, please contact Warren at 310 670-4175...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 19, 2012 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Training and Development
If the former, then we shouldn’t even bother with leadership development. We usually think of leaders as those who can inspire and motivate others to put out discretionary effort and effective managers as those who ensure that things get done consistently well....
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 9, 2012 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing
HR has a high return-on-investment. don’t be afraid to measure it! www.allaboutperformance.biz