Assessments, News, Talent selection
A new employee started at a high-level corporate organization. Talented, well-versed in the field, and eager to succeed, all of her previous experience implied that she would excel in her new role. She participated in mentoring opportunities. She completed work on...
Talent selection, Uncategorized
We’re excited to add a new facet to the Jamesson Solutions products and services: talent acquisition using TriMetrix assessments. Industry thought leader John Sullivan says 2017 is “the year of the algorithm.” Sullivan asserts that the recruiting...
Development, Presentation skills, Uncategorized
At a recent Advanced Presentation Skills workshop, we spent a day with the senior vice presidents of sales representing a global manufacturing organization. We asked these SVPs if they regularly used stories as part of their business communications, from informal...
Development, Uncategorized
This article is the first of a series that will discuss storytelling’s unique power in business communications. We recently talked business and storytelling with Chris Laney, President and CEO of Greensboro, NC-based Zenergy Technologies, a software delivery solutions...
Development, Presentation skills, Uncategorized
Almost all of us will have to speak in front of an audience at some point or another. Whether it’s an internal report to colleagues, an external presentation to current or prospective clients, or a fundraising ask to the local PTA, speaking in public can be nerve...
Development, Uncategorized
We’ve all sat through presentations that are boring, poorly organized, or hampered by overuse or misuse of audio visual tools. And what happens? We tune out. And we might be missing information we really need to have. Sometimes we have to give presentations that...
Development, Uncategorized
Understanding your behavior style can help you play to your strengths and find ways to anticipate and even mitigate your challenges. At Jamesson Solutions, we have found the DiSC Profile to be a powerful and easy-to-understand resource to learn about your behavioral...
Development, Uncategorized
Training ROI? In our decades-long careers in learning and leadership development the question of return-on-investment has been answered with (highly) educated guesses often pointing to case studies that indicate employee development engagements do improve...
