How Cognitive Reports Support Behavioral Assessments to Predict Job Performance
When you hire someone, you want to be sure that they’ll do well in their new role. You invest too much time and money to end up with someone who can’t fulfill their responsibilities. But you can’t rely on first impressions or feelings of rapport to identify A-players. Instead, you should use several data points […]
Five Important Soft Skills They Don’t Teach in School
Whether you’re striving to succeed as a leader, a long-term individual contributor, or are just beginning your career, you want to succeed. Whether you’ve completed formal education at a university, technical school, or earned certifications, the truth remains formal education has its limits. Hard skills are essential, but they’re not all you need to succeed. […]
Using Behavioral Tools Throughout the Employee Lifecycle
As previously mentioned, we’re exploring the value of managing through the employee lifecycle this month. This is the concept that building a happy (and therefore productive) workforce with minimal turnover requires more of an investment than the time it takes to hire, train and conduct reviews once a year. People need more and are demanding […]
The Employee Lifecycle: Why it pays to develop your people
Tony Curtachio and Omnia, a true story. It’s easy to tell when you have a great employee. They are hardworking, always pitch in to help others and go above and beyond each and every time. You know what you have and you don’t want to lose it. But what happens when things change, as things […]
How to Earn Your Positive Team Dynamics Merit Badge
Camp Omnia is our little way of paying homage to summer rituals while we continue adulting. In this week’s blog, and as part of our Camp Omnia series, we’re going to earn our Positive Team Dynamics badge. Even if they are working from home, completing most of their activities independently, your employees don’t generally work in […]
How to Earn a Merit Badge in Employee Retention
For many companies, hiring cools off as the temperature heats up. That’s because your potential new employees probably aren’t thinking about a career move. They’re too busy going on vacation, shuttling kids to camp, perfecting their landscaping, and spending time with loved ones. But, this recruiting slowdown is an ideal opportunity to focus on improving […]
Personality Spotlight: The Advisor
Continuing our series on performance management, we turn our spotlight to The Advisor. Like the Analytic (and all other personality groups), Advisors have specific behavioral traits and preferences that are the most comfortable for them. While they can show any behavior necessary to do a job for a short time, the core traits of the […]
Personality Spotlight: The Logistical Driver
What type of manager are you? A common question. Whenever I deliver management training, I usually hear from managers that they have a specific leadership style. They say things like, “I’m not a micro-manager. My people do their jobs and know they can come to me with questions.” Others say, “I don’t think of myself […]
Personality Spotlight: The Analytic
The Omnia Assessment measures our most comfortable behaviors in 4 areas: Assertiveness, Sociability, Pace and Need for Structure. When I say most comfortable, I mean those behaviors that require the least amount of stretch, the least amount of, well, discomfort. We all like to move smoothly on our rails so to speak. That certainly doesn’t […]
Personality Spotlight: The Visionary
The ultimate success of your organization depends on the value and service you bring to the market every day. Most of that value is distinguished by the strength of your product and services – and to deliver on that consistently, you need all your people firing on all cylinders. As leaders and business owners, we […]
