by Warren Bobrow | Jun 24, 2013 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management, Training and Development
I’m a guest blogger for the Human Capital Institute this week. The topic? Which tools are effective in evaluating leadership. You can read it at http://tinyurl.com/lwehpns. For more information on leadership development, legal pre-employment testing systems,...
by Warren Bobrow | Dec 18, 2012 | Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI, Talent Management, Training and Development
Most employees need training after they are hired, particularly at the entry level. If you read here regularly, you know that I’m a big proponent of using validated selection tools when hiring and promoting. It’s just more cost effective. Recently, I was reading...
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...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 28, 2012 | Leadership, Legal Issues, Performance, Training and Development
“Are you my supervisor?” It seems like a pretty straightforward question. In most organizations there is someone is who responsible for directing another person’s work. Where this gets tricky is when the organization is being sued for harassment or some other nasty...
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...
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...