The Power of People Skills When You’re Working From Home
It’s the new reality: Ready or not, many of us will be working from home, effective immediately, and for who knows how long. We’ve been heading this way, of course. According to the Federal Reserve, the number of US employees working from home has tripled in the last 15 years. Many white collar workers have […]
What’s Your ROI With Executive Coaching?
Today’s Insight comes from Michelle Western, Organizational Research & Analysis Consultant, on the benefits of Executive Coaching: “Google ‘Executive Coaching’ and you’ll be bombarded by thousands of hits extolling the benefits of business coaches. But isn’t coaching really just “fixing people”? And is hiring an external coach really worth it? Well, no…and yes. What Is […]
Leadership Evaluation: Four Key Factors to Measure Performance
How should we evaluate a CEO’s performance? Or the performance of any organizational leader? Too often, leadership evaluations — especially CEO evaluations — are based on the previous year’s financial achievements or disappointments. But those can only show us what happened in the past. But what most organizations really want is a tool that can […]
Employee Selection — Another Process Enhanced by Big Data
It’s clear that American corporations have embraced the use of selection assessment and the principles of “big data” in managing the hiring process. For example, the Wall Street Journal ran a story on the rise of personality tests as part of standard hiring and vetting procedures. (Article author Lauren Weber summarizes her findings in a […]
Peer Perspective Can Predict an Executive’s Success
In most instances, predicting an executive’s success is as difficult as it is necessary. Each tool, while providing some value, ends up being imperfect: Business metrics from past projects or positions are the easiest to obtain, but they only give a retrospective picture — and an incomplete one at that. Manager evaluations can provide a […]