Archive for the ‘Talent Selection’ Category

Greatly Improve Your Employee Selection

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

One of the most expensive mistakes we ever make as managers is
hiring the wrong people for a job, yet simple, affordable tools exist to
greatly improve the probability that we are hiring the right person.

Let me share a story, then give you a chance to experiment with just (more…)

What Has Talent Selection Got to Do With Making Leadership Simple?

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

With my newfound clarity about “making leadership simple” being the brand essence for Enlightened Leadership Solutions, I found myself in San Diego last week interviewing a CEO about their greatest people issues as part of a research project I’m doing for my next publication.

As head of a fast-growing company, the CEO quickly got to what he considered was his greatest management-leadership challenge, and it was not motivating people, or getting people to be accountable, or developing leadership, or getting projects back on track - none of the traditional leadership issues. His greatest management challenge (more…)