Is Your Company Future Proofed?
Using Behavioral and Cognitive Assessments to Prepare for the Unexpected. Sometimes it feels like running a business means constantly scrambling to keep up with new innovations, shifts in thought and sentiment, or the totally unexpected. Just when it seems like everything’s operating smoothly, along comes… say… a slow economy, a new social media platform, groundbreaking […]
Cognitive Assessments: A Smart Addition to Your Hiring Process
In today’s job market, hiring the right talent is more crucial than ever. Traditional hiring methods—resumes, interviews, and reference checks—while valuable, often fall short in predicting a candidate’s future performance. To bridge this gap, cognitive assessments have emerged as a powerful tool in the hiring process. These assessments provide objective, data-driven insights into a candidate’s […]
Using Personality Assessments to Build Stronger Teams
Employees are the key to driving results in any organization. From building revenue, producing the product or service, helping customers with problems, and everything in between, your people are the common denominator. Understanding what engages every member of a team will make it stronger and more productive. An individual’s personality type helps determine whether team […]
5 Ways To (Ethically) Clone Your Go-To Employees
You probably have at least one employee like this: your go-to, “set it and forget it” person, the one you’d trust with just about anything. If they were a house, they’d be called “turnkey.” If they were an electronic device, they’d be “plug and play.” When talking about these people, our Omnia clients say, “I […]
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 […]
Three Tools and Tactics You Need to Earn Your Selection Merit Badge
It’s summertime, finally! Long days, warm nights, the beach beckons. Mostly I’m eager for a break from the daily grind of packing lunches, checking homework and hounding my son every night to get ready for bed. It’s the little things. In major news, my son is heading off to Boy Scout camp next week. It’s […]
A Ten-Step Employee Selection Process: Don’t Leave Hiring to Chance
Welcome to March! It seems like a great time to talk about luck. You know, because of St. Patrick’s Day. And who doesn’t love St. Patrick’s Day? Some cities dye entire rivers green just for fun. Not to mention the parades (well, maybe not this year), green beer, leprechauns, shamrocks, and pots of gold at […]
What Leaders Have Learned During the COVID-19 Crisis
People likely feared it after watching movies about it – but deep down, never imagined it would truly happen. Even when it started to happen, a lot of people were saying “not us” or “not here.” Boy, were we wrong! COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and the world, as we knew […]
4 Things You Need for Effective Virtual Team Building
Working remotely certainly has its perks for your team members. Sometimes, doing so is a necessity. But, prolonged (or indefinite) physical separation can cause employees to feel lonely and disconnected from their work. Unfortunately, when their morale drops, so does their productivity. As a leader, it’s your job to make sure that doesn’t happen. It’s […]
Pump Up Your Coaching Program with Employee Assessments
As a leader, you’re invested in the growth and development of your team. You know that properly coached employees can achieve your company’s lofty goals and be more engaged while doing so. But — did you know that your coaching efforts could fall flat if you don’t have the right insight about your team members? […]