Articles on talent selection and development
Coaches look at thought time and action time for more effective feedback, using The Leadership Nexus
Jamesson Solutions has acquired a new product in a partnership with the Winston-Salem authors of...
How to recognize Leadership Moments
This is the chapter, "Leadership Moments" from The Leadership Nexus: Aligning Thought and Action...
Jamesson Solutions acquires Polygon Puzzle™, Trust Building™, Team Buildings™ and TPQ™
Jamesson Solutions has purchased three well-known business simulations and one personality...
Talent Tips: Leadership development helps employee retention
Jamesson Solutions' Donna Warrick sees leadership development as both vital to maintaining a...
Talent Tips: Use assessments to see a prospect’s “driving forces” for a more successful hire
Mike Warrick says a prospect's "driving forces" need to be in synch with their job...and vice...
Talent Tips: Motivation is the most important factor in choosing any job candidate
Many times people ask us about motivation. What is motivation? Generally, motivation is what...
How to give women employees upward mobility in your organization
We hear this from clients of all sizes. That is, that women employees are demanding more from...
A leadership sandbox – How a peer-to-peer program builds leaders on the job
Peer-to-peer coaching lets each team member try out leadership. Photo: Adobe Stock.Learning to...
Take your teams back to school with simulations
We never lose the feeling of back-to-school time, do we? Even if you don’t have kids or your kids...
How Larissa Cerqueira keeps Fluence competitive
We're amazed and inspired. Larissa Cerqueira is CHRO at Fluence, a leader in renewable energy with...
A blend of best practices and women-focused initiatives can improve equity in the workplace
Women are still left behind when it comes to advancement in Donna Warrick's Viewpoint column in...
Before you hire, benchmark the job to find the best matched talent
When small businesses staff up, they don’t always know what or who they’re looking for. They may...
Are we seeing the most agile generation enter the workplace?
Agile intern, Susan Miller is a student at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.When a...
Match extroverts to the right positions to ensure a better long-term hire
Let's look at extroverts. There’s a lot more to personality profiles than whether someone is an...
How leaders can achieve a positive workplace culture
Recently, we were asked how companies measure if their workplace cultures are successful? Good...
Last time we talked about unconscious bias, they threw paper wads at us
We asked for it. This was the closing exercise in our new Unconscious Bias workshop that serves as...
Why don’t women speak up? Psychological safety.
Psychological safety is necessary for any organization. It helps facilitate open communications,...
Heading off immature leadership with assessments and development
Photo: Adobe StockImmature leadership? No wonder we have so many people leading who simply aren’t...
Measure training and development ROI one person at a time
What’s your ROI on learning initiatives and your overall training and development budget? Don’t...
Time to fill the empty vessel
Eleanor Brownn, the inspirational writer, gave us the now popular expression “you cannot serve...
The PressTime business simulation works well with remote learning
Simulations are powerful learning tools, unfortunately many of them rely on teams working closely...
Using hiring assessments to measure motivation for development and career pathing
Mike Warrick's motivation was to sit down with Alison Nolan, formerly an HR partner at Volvo Group...
I’m just a middle-aged white woman
After all, what can a middle-aged white woman possibly offer as a perspective that will make any...
How to avoid the true cost of making the wrong hire
Ever made a wrong hire in your business? Whether you are a large or small organization, have low...
Get The Most Out Of Your Staff By Increasing Employee Engagement
Are you getting the most out of your people? It’s complicated. Increasing employee engagement is a...
How to assess motivation when hiring
What is motivation and why does it matter? To learn more, we had insightful conversations with a...
Communication skills a top priority in Training survey
"Communication skills" has remained at the top of Training magazine's "Priority Skills for...
It’s not every day you can share a cover story with your client
Iris Austin, HR Partner at Volvo Trucks, made front page news this week here in Greensboro. Six...
Trucking giant launches women’s leadership program
Women's leadership initiative? The first step is to get women to STAY with the company. That’s...
Why you need assessments for talent selection
For talent acquisition, mere trust is never enough to assure a great match. Don’t start trusting...
Culture is key to attracting talent
Companies are taking innovative steps to attract talent in a competitive hiring environment....
For moms in the workplace, gender inequity goes up
The National Science Foundation offers us a Mother's Day gift of research! But the story's not all...
Donna Warrick in TrainingMag.com on multi-generational workplace issues
From TrainingMag.com ... The goal in cross-generational communication training is not to study...
Leadership & Training walk into a coffee bar…
Kudos to Starbucks for making a statement against racial bias. Closing all their stores for an...
Character counts, so remember the three Cs
Character counts. It's true for organizations as well as individuals. Recently this question was...
Bias against candidates with the highest GPAs…among women
Chalk up another example of gender bias in America. For women looking for jobs, having the highest...
Can you train away the gender gap?
Women and women's issues continue to make headlines. From the grassroots of the #MeToo movement to...
Hone your organization for success with greater soft skills through talent acquisition and continuing development
People skills, emotional intelligence and agility — development terms that fall under the umbrella...
Not your father’s Human Resources. Training can get your organization up to speed.
Donna writes in Training Industry about Human Resources becoming a bigger user of corporate...
Vive la différence! Workplace diversity contributes to innovation and how training can help
A new study from North Carolina State University suggests that organizations that make strides to...
HR may need some hand-holding to compete for younger “employee customers”
Employee customers? More and more, organizations are wooing new talent with techniques more akin...
Optimized hiring helps HR fine tune its talent acquisition: but do a little research first
Optimized hiring is getting a lot of coverage in business and news. Basically, this refers to the...
Generational baggage and how you can check it
Last week’s New York Times Magazine features a sobering and thought-provoking article about a...
The way you thought you needed to talk to Millennials is all wrong
Press Release: The way you thought you needed to talk to Millennials is all wrong— new...
Ever bomb an interview?
Fess up. Ever bomb an interview? Maybe it was for a job your really wanted. Or a talk with your...
DISC helps talent acquisition tools do double duty for team development
Jamesson Solutions got into the talent acquisition arena earlier this year by establishing a...
Assessments and feedback for “back-to-workplace”
Chances are your office is pretty slow right now, as coworkers wrap up their summer vacations and...
How to read body language
Current politics is a boon for network, cable and internet news because every event is so visual....
Five ways to use your body to get what you want in the workplace
Selling an idea, leading a team, winning new business and getting a raise are just a few of the...
From the Beer Game to Paper Planes, business simulations continue to be popular
We're not sure what the first business simulation was, but when you research the topic, you'll...