3 ways to put people data to good use
Valuable people data is all around us—it’s up to us to put it to good use. It was about this time last year that I purchased a high tech fitness tracker. I was immediately awash in a steady stream of health data ranging from how many steps I had taken to calories burned to heart…
Let’s get this party started: Five tips for setting great goals in 2016
By Matt Poepsel, PhD
Is your candidate’s energy sustainable? Interview excitement vs. sustainable extroversion
By Max Yoder If you‘ve hired people in the past, you’ve probably heard this one before: it’s about the apparently gregarious, enthusiastic candidate who, after acing your hiring process, rarely perks up again like they did in those initial meetings. At Lesson.ly, we call this the Affected Perk Problem, or APP, and we see it all…
What do these people want from me? (and other burning management questions)
By Matt Poepsel, PhD We managers often face many challenges, and when working with individuals on our team, it’s not uncommon for us to become exasperated when we don’t get the results we were expecting. Frustrated, we wonder what the heck is going on, and we may even second-guess the skills or dedication of our staff…
Getting to the good stuff, sans psychobabble
By Drew Fortin I’m a big fan of big words. And as a self-professed sesquipedalian, it’s not uncommon for me to ebulliently excogitate the significance and value of behavioral and cognitive assessments. But – gasconading aside – using big words or complex terminology can backfire if those with whom you are trying to communicate don’t understand…
The Predictive Index to Host Webinar on Demystifying Assessment Jargon
Webinar attendees will participate in active session to clarify assessment facts from fiction
Are your employees thankful? What 50 grateful employees had to say
’Tis the season for reflecting on the goodness in our lives and giving thanks. For most of us, our thoughts usually tend toward loved ones and positive developments in our personal lives. But what about that place where we spend the majority of our waking hours? Yes, paychecks are nice, but let’s dig deeper. When…
Four tips for driving sales
Docurated recently compiled the results of 34 interviews with top efficiency experts to hear what they had to say about improving the performance of their sales teams. While the experts mentioned everything from creating a process that doesn’t hinder sales, to providing reps with the right tools to sell, more than half of the experts surveyed…