Values that inflluences attitudes toward social networkingThis article highlights how different people might value positively or judge negatively social networking in their lives.
Stop doing annual reviewsIn nearly all cases, the annual review has little to do with performance but a lot to do with salary. The review meeting has become little more than a ritual. It's the once a year sit-down where an entire year of success and failures are boiled down into a few minutes conversation.
Past Performance Fails to Predict Future PerformanceUp until recently many employees were hired and promoted based on a simple theory: past performance is a good predictor of future performance. When the world was more predictable and change occurred over decades and not days or even minutes, past performance could be expected to lead to future success. That premise was based on a future environment that would be similar to the previous one. In today's world, that assumption is wrong.
Overabundance of resumes creates resu-messAn overabundance of resumes is prompting employers to change the way they review applications and interview candidates. For individuals in search of a new job or career, it is as easy as Copy, Paste, and Submit. It is fair to say that reviewing and processing these resumes is like having eight lanes of traffic exiting onto a two-lane side-street. This translates into a resu-mess bottlenock at the hiring tollgate.
ATE2D (attitude) Virus causes increase in presenteeismThe Attitude Virus seems to be everywhere. We know that there are lots of layoffs, morale is down, and productivity is suffering. We see the symptoms every day as rudeness, poor service, lack of motivation, and increased job stress. Managers feel the pain of the long-term effects of the Attitude Virus with employee turnover, lost productivity, customer complaints, increased worker and consumer liability, and a drain on profits.
Three Hiring Mistakes Managers MakeThere are plenty of good people looking for work. What turns these good workers into great employees? Motivation.
Cutting the High Cost of Poor Employee SelectionWhen you consider the high cost of a bad hire, the ROI associated with better pre-employment testing is significant. The cumulative effect of including personality, cognitive, and interest assessments increases the odds of success to nearly 70% and as high as 87% from the 50/50 success of using the only the interview.
10 Reasons Hiring Managers Fear Pre-Employment TestsThe FEAR that hiring managers have about using pre-employment tests is nothing more than False Experiences Appearing Real. In this column I respond to the top 10 fears I consistently hear from HR managers, executives and business owners.
Parents Beware: Gaming may be beneficial to your child's career!As more and more adults worry that children are wasting time online, texting, or playing video games, social network and video sharing sites, online games, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are becoming more mainstream fixtures of youth culture. New research just released by the MacArthur foundation might serve as a wake-up call...or at least force adults to pause before they pull the plug on their kids.
Make good sense of a fickle economy: select the right peopleWe live in a world of great risk and great possibilities. Every business is in a race against time, influenced by new competitors, new technologies, and demanding, if not fickle and impatient consumers. In a world of increasing complexity and an avalanche of information, selecting and retaining the right people is more important than ever.
Innovative Capacity: A key to competitive advantageManagement today, and into the unforeseeable future, must be able to complete a lot of important work in a short time under harrowing conditions, on the basis of only a few hunches and a lot of instinct, none of them precise.Leadership plays a vital role in navigating this permanent whitewater.
Is the sky falling?The United States is in the middle of a talent crisis. For those skeptics who feel all the commotion about worker shortages is mostly hype, essentially given the deluge of layoffs resulting from the recent financial crisis, there is just too much wind in the Perfect Labor Storm sails to ignore what is happening. The numbers speak for themselves.
Nine personality traits that shape innovationKaleidoscopic thinking is what differentiates idea generators from successful innovators. Once management bets its future on innovation, creating an innovation-driven culture is a must. This starts with identifying who the people are capable of kaleidoscopic thinking. We have identified nine personality traits that shape the innovative mind-set.
How to Avoid Hiring A 'Lemon'Managers make assumptions every day when they hire employees. They observe a candidate during the interview or on the job and make assumptions about his potential based on how he looks and what he claims he can do. But too many times, after the candidate is hired and on the payroll, the manager turns the 'key' and all they hear is 'click, click, click'. They wonder - did I hire a lemon?
Leadership Lessons Learned from Tim RussertAs I began to watch and listen to the stories about Russert be recounted during the televised day-long tributes and remembrances, I realized that Russert exemplified the virtues of a great leader. Nearly everyone, from politicians, colleagues, and even his competitors, lauded Russert's prowess as a journalist and as an interviewer.
Gen Y: Will Employers Ever Learn to Play Their Game?Young people are gathering en masse on line to collaborate. Hanging out with their friends down the street has been replaced by online gaming and social networking. It's like they closed the bedroom door but instead of one best friend inside they now invite thousands of friends in. And now they are entering the workforce in mass, creating both opportunities and headaches for employers.
Stop the Brain DrainStop the brain drain. To begin to capture and transfer knowledge in your organization, where do you start? I offer the following steps.
