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 | Jun 6, 2016 | Legal Issues, Performance, Talent Management
There’s been much talk about the new department of labor rule that will require overtime pay for salaried employees making less than $47,476 (the current threshold is $23,660) starting December 1, 2016. This threshold will now update every three years. This has led...
by Warren Bobrow | May 26, 2016 | Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management, Test Validation
There’s a figurative store where the roads of Management and Psychology cross. The shelves up front have the new and shiny theory or practice. More likely than not, it will join the former new and shiny ideas in the dingy back of the store. Some are just flat out...
by Warren Bobrow | May 10, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management
To use a tired cliché, they call it Show Business for a reason. Fortunately, within the last 10 years or so, the news media in Los Angeles has been covering that industry as it would any other large one in the region. So, it made a local splash when the Chairman and...
