Best Practices for Conducting Employee Assessments Remotely
As more employers shift to a remote workforce, managers look for ways to manage their teams more effectively. Whether a company is hiring new employees or transitioning workers into a remote context, having easy-to-interpret, actionable data about behavioral tendencies and cognitive traits provides leaders with an invaluable resource for developing a remote management strategy. When […]
4 Tips for Managing Remote Workers
Although some organizations have been managing remote workers for many years, a vast number of companies have been thrown into it recently—without much time for consideration of how this changes management practices. Managing remote workers’ unique challenges is not always immediately evident, which many companies are now learning the hard way. Luckily, there are resources […]
Micromanaging Your Employees – Why it’s Bad and How to Stop
Knowing how much supervision to give an employee can be difficult. If you provide too little oversight and guidance, people could end up feeling lost, unsupported, and unproductive. On the other hand, if you provide too MUCH direction, you could end up micromanaging your team, which often makes people resentful and resistant. The Effects of […]
Should You Use Social Media Screening in Your Hiring Process?
With an estimated 2.65 billion people using social media worldwide in 2018, the odds are good that anyone applying for a position at your organization has at least one social media profile. In fact, they probably have more than one, since the average person today has over eight accounts, more than double the average number […]
How Pre-Employment Testing Expedites Your Hiring Process
Filling an open position is often a much more complicated process than organizations expect. Even if the hiring manager has a good description of the job, its responsibilities, and a picture of what an ideal candidate would look like, they must still sort through applicants and find the candidates who seem best suited for the […]
6 Employee Retention Strategies to Try
Replacing skilled employees is a major challenge for any organization. In addition to the time and expense required to conduct a new search and hiring process to replace a departed employee, there’s also the lost productivity when remaining employees have to pick up the slack until a replacement is selected. That’s why having strong employee […]
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 […]
