Hone your organization for success with greater soft skills through talent acquisition and continuing development

Talent selection, Uncategorized

People skills, emotional intelligence and agility — development terms that fall under the umbrella of soft skills — are generally accepted as vital to advancement within an organization. They are important to a company by supporting succession and lowering turnover....

Not your father’s Human Resources. Training can get your organization up to speed.

Assessments, Uncategorized

Donna writes in Training Industry about Human Resources becoming a bigger user of corporate training to succeed in a newly competitive environment. Read the full article here. Talent acquisition is becoming more competitive as America is closer to full employment than...

Vive la différence! Workplace diversity contributes to innovation and how training can help

Diversity, Uncategorized

A new study from North Carolina State University suggests that organizations that make strides to achieve workplace diversity are also more innovative. This innovation manifests in more new products and, in some cases, even more patents and new uses of technology. “We...

HR may need some hand-holding to compete for younger “employee customers”

Diversity, Uncategorized

Employee customers? More and more, organizations are wooing new talent with techniques more akin to marketing than human resources to reach young people who brand themselves by their work. Competition for talent is getting tougher as the economy improves and...

Optimized hiring helps HR fine tune its talent acquisition: but do a little research first

Assessments, Talent selection, Uncategorized

Optimized hiring is getting a lot of coverage in business and news. Basically, this refers to the use of assessment in the hiring process. It’s a fundamental change from earlier HR practices wrought from the continuing refinement of assessments. We’re proponents of...

Generational baggage and how you can check it

Diversity, Leading across generations, Uncategorized

Last week’s New York Times Magazine features a sobering and thought-provoking article about a reported increase in the number of adolescents suffering from anxiety. In “The Kids Who Can’t,” Benoit Denizet-Lewis documents a period in the life of a high school student...