The 7 Soft Skills You Need to Be Successful
You may be a computer whiz, a scientific genius, or a master of mathematical theories. However, to be successful, you need more than just expertise in your given specialty. In fact, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employees (NACE), when participating employers were asked to name the attributes they seek in candidates, they […]
How to Motivate People Through Employee Assessments
Do you know what motivates your employees to come to work every day? If you don’t have an answer to that question, there’s a good chance that you don’t have the workplace strategies in place to ensure that your workforce remains engaged in their tasks. Without using employee assessments of some kind, it can be […]
Five Surefire Ways to Accurately Assess Your Organizational Culture
Companies that actively manage their cultures tend to be more successful than companies that don’t. In fact, Deloitte’s research has found that organizations that develop and promote a strong sense of purpose among employees have 30 percent higher levels of innovation and 40 percent higher retention rates. They also rank among the top one or […]
10 Great Interview Questions to Identify Candidates’ Soft Skills
An employee’s soft skills can make or break their job performance, especially in leadership positions. Technical or “hard” skills are certainly important, but having good soft skills—those personal characteristics like agreeableness, empathy, the ability to influence and listen, likeability, and the ability to resolve conflict—will determine whether an employee can enlist the necessary cooperation and […]
6 Tips for Building a Team That Works
Would you like to know how to build a strong team that collaborates more effectively and consistently performs at a high level? Of course, you would! Teams that perform poorly and struggle with accountability are incredibly bad for business. Whether the reason for the poor performance is conflicting personalities, mismatched skillsets, appreciable gaps in knowledge, […]
Six Ways Cognitive Assessments Add Value to the Hiring Process
If you have First off, what are cognitive assessments? Simply put, a cognitive assessment test measures an individual’s ability to think critically. By focusing on crucial mental processes, these tests can evaluate the subject’s ability to reason, solve problems, comprehend ideas, and learn quickly. They are distinct from behavioral assessment tests, which are also an […]
What is Personality or Pre-Employment Testing?
Hiring a new employee is one of the biggest challenges organizations face regularly. According to research by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it takes an average of 42 days to fill an open position at the sizable cost of $4,129 per hire. With the average turnover rate around 19 percent, developing strategies that […]
The DOs and DON’Ts of Surprisingly Good Customer Service
We can all think of a time when we have received horrible customer service, right? Unfortunately, poor customer service experiences are usually easier to recall than good examples. For instance, I once had a waiter spill water on me four times…during the same meal. My mother, a teacher, once had to retake an entire series […]
Employee Development in Today’s Landscape: What Employees Want!
Providing employee development opportunities is one of the most important moves an organization can make to improve employee retention. A 2018 LinkedIn Learning report found that a shocking 94 percent of employees said they would remain with a company longer if it did more to invest in their career development. Considering that more employees quit […]
How to Deliver a Painless 90-Day Employee Performance Evaluation
[lmt-post-modified-info] 90-Day Employee Performance Evaluations: 9 Tips for Making Them (Relatively) Pain-Free Imagine that you’ve just landed a new job. You’re thrilled, excited, and ready to dive in headfirst. But as you walk through the door on your first day, you’re greeted with confusion, chaos, and a whole lot of unanswered questions. Suddenly, what you […]
