by Warren Bobrow | Jan 24, 2017 | Assessment Centers, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Something I hear frequently from clients is, “I wish I had a day/week/month to see my candidates do the job. Then I would make fewer hiring mistakes.” It is, of course, an intriguing idea. We test drive cars before we buy them. Why not try out people before we...
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 | Oct 25, 2016 | Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
The idea of implicit bias has been making its way into the business vernacular. It involves the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. As you probably gathered from the definition, implicit bias is...
