Getting Serious about Understanding Behavior

Getting Serious about Understanding Behavior

If you’ve ever considered yourself a good judge of character, buckle up. It is not enough to conduct an interview and think you have the best candidate. Far too often, the candidate that looks like solid gold in the interview is a tricky bronze at best, and your...
Can You Predict Performance?

Can You Predict Performance?

Here’s the mission, should you choose to accept it: you have to hire the best-performing candidates. How do you separate the good from the great? It’s a common problem plaguing businesses across all industries. The answer may sound strange at first, but it’s much more...
Leadership Development Forever

Leadership Development Forever

So, we’ve come to the end of the book, but certainly not the end of the journey. That’s how leadership development should feel within an organization: as a journey. Turning around poor and even moderate performance in a day is miraculous…and...
Full Circle Leadership Development

Full Circle Leadership Development

Key Takeaways It is impossible to know the full range of human behavior in the workplace.  We can unlock more information through the targeted use of assessments. Interviews invite prospective employees to be on their best behavior, making it hard to fully judge their...
The Performance to Pipeline Puzzle

The Performance to Pipeline Puzzle

Despite what the media says, there’s good news: companies don’t exist in the universe of The Highlander, where there can only be one. Indeed, multiple companies can not only flourish within an industry but collaborate and expand together within the marketplace. Pepsi...
The Real Investment Plan for Leadership Development

The Real Investment Plan for Leadership Development

Investing in an entire organization has a lot of overlap with gardening. The farmer has to look at a bare field both in present time and in future time. In present time, the field may not be as productive as it should be, but in time, they will soon be looking at a...