Archive for the ‘Assessments’ Category

Behavioral Interviewing and Job Assessments

How to Reach the Ultimate Goal
From the application review to the final offer, the entire selection process is really one extensive assessment of an individual’s potential. The importance of this process lies within its ultimate goal - to answer two, central questions:

Is the candidate right for the job?
Is the company and the [...]

Behavioral Interviewing Techniques

How to Ensure Your Techniques are Effective and Compliant
Since its introduction in the 1970s, behavioral interviewing has grown to be widely practiced in the selection process. Based on the assumption that the most accurate predictor of the future is the past, this technique relies on a reflection of specific situations to indicate an applicant’s [...]

Identifying Our Weakness

How to Prevent an Overextension of Our Strengths
Optimizing the strengths of your employees is a goal of every leader, manager and business owner. Ensuring your employees are contributing the best of their abilities is a key to superior performance, but how can you be certain an overextension of their strengths does not get in [...]

The Key to Accomplishment

Set Your Goals and Achieve Success with True Motivation
Whether professionally, personally or both, there are probably many times when you too have set a goal and it didn’t stick. Rather than a feeling of accomplishment, you are left with feelings of disappointment and self-doubt. The key to goal achievement is to really understand [...]

Generation Generalization

Don’t Attempt to Understand a Generation, Understand the Individual
As the Millennials enter the workforce, employers are scrambling to figure them out. What do they like and dislike? What are their goals? What motivates them? But when you attempt to answer these questions, generalization isn’t effective. Each person is unique and [...]

Successful Managers Are Effective Coaches

How Do Your Managers Measure Up?
In the workforce today, successful managers and supervisors do more then just oversee and delegate tasks to their team members. As direct factors in retention and performance results, employee coaching, team building and development initiatives are at the top of their list of duties.
Managers who truly know and understand [...]

Discover More Than DISC

Utilize Values to Uncover Another View of Individuals
Marston’s DISC theory is successfully utilized by many coaches and consultants through the use of personal and professional assessments in the workplace. It uncovers the behaviors of an individual and provides information vital to a variety of business practices, from selection to development. Why stop there? [...]