Here’s a word of advice for managers who’ve had an unpleasant meeting with a key employee and cannot fathom why Give-and-Take turned into Tug-of-War. Get out your employee manual and look under troubleshooting for Failure to Communicate. Oh, wait. That topic isn’t in our employee manual. While your human resources department may not have that…
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It’s often said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure”. While almost a cliché, this statement is especially important for Human Resource professionals. Most HR departments typically measure such things as the time to hire, cost per hire, turnover, absenteeism, lost time due to injuries, etc. While important, limiting their measurements to these types of…
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Four Quadrant Social Style Assessments (aka DISC type assessments) should never be used for pre-employment (hiring) purposes for the following reasons – they: Are not validated (meant) for pre-employment purposes, Are not (reliable) predictive of a person’s future behavior, Are fake-able, and Present an incomplete picture of a candidate. More specifically: DISC type assessments are not validated (meant) for pre-employment purposes. Validity refers to…
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When poet Robert Burns penned those words more than two hundred years ago about seeing ourselves through the eyes of others in his famous poem (To a Louse, 1786), he could not have known they would apply so fittingly today. As a manager or leader in our organization, we often fail to consider how others…
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