After all, what can a middle-aged white woman possibly offer as a perspective that will make any difference at all? I love my job! It fills my cup and feeds my soul! As a facilitator I get to interact with different people and help them develop skills for being better...

What is motivation and why does it matter? To learn more, we had insightful conversations with a psychologist who develops assessments and an HR expert who uses them. Dr. Brett Wells and Alison Nolan, respectively. When you use assessments to dive deeper than...

Iris Austin, HR Partner at Volvo Trucks, made front page news this week here in Greensboro. Six months ago, we heard the Triad Business Journal was researching for an upcoming feature on women in trucking. So we told them about the unique women in leadership program...

For talent acquisition, mere trust is never enough to assure a great match. Don’t start trusting until you can verify that the candidate really is who they say they are in every facet of their résumé. That's the gist of Donna Warrick's article in this week's edition...

The National Science Foundation offers us a Mother's Day gift of research! But the story's not all roses. Mothers who work are perceived as less committed to their jobs than other women. Shockingly, employers are 100% less likely to proceed with the hiring process for...

Character counts. It's true for organizations as well as individuals. Recently this question was posed: what are the biggest HR turn-offs you want to avoid in your company's recruitment efforts? The biggest turn-offs for millennials and Generation Z often are often...

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...

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...

Jamesson Solutions got into the talent acquisition arena earlier this year by establishing a value-added associate partnership with TTI Success Insights, maker of the TriMetrix assessment suite. We consider the suite to be very powerful, delivering scientifically...

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...

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...

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...