5 Ways to Address a Performance Gap in Your Team
Skill and performance gaps crop up in every workplace. Jobs, technologies, and even demand change over time. When this happens, recognizing and working to fill performance gaps is crucial to maintaining results and productivity inside your team. In most cases, performance gaps are the direct result of missing skills inside your team. This could show up as lack of development for team members or missing team members. The best short-term strategy is to use direct [...]
Skills of the Future: 10 Skills You’ll Need to Thrive in 2020
This is a guest post from Jomel Alos. Jomel is a Consultant at Guthrie-Jensen Consultants. It’s not quite right to say that we live in a technological world now more than ever. Over time, technology has been the driving force in various fields such as business, education, medicine, and telecommunications to name a few. However, technology is dynamic by nature, so it’s quick to change and pave the way for the so- called industrial revolution. After [...]
Creating the Ideal Work Environment: Avoiding Conflicts
This is a guest post by James Lambka. James is an attorney at Wiener&Lambka. It's been said that employees don't quit jobs – they quit bosses. There's a lot of truth in that, but quite a bit more to it, really. It might be more accurate to say that employees quit bad work environments, rather than quitting actual jobs. So employers, managers, and HR directors should always strive to create a great work environment – [...]
IQ is great, but EQ is more important for your career
A high IQ and technical skills are great to have, but surprisingly, STEM (science, technology, engineering, medicine) expertise is less important than soft skills when it comes to being a top employee at Google. Hiring departments have historically prioritized technical skills, such as the ability to code in Ruby on Rails, or an understanding of Microsoft Office. Google's Project Oxygen looked at what made a great manager, and discovered that among the most important qualities of [...]
How to Identify a Reliable HR Assessment
Whether your HR assessment is intended for pre-hire or for measuring competency, output, or leadership potential in existing employees, it's crucial that your provider has the capacity to deliver to your needs. However, with dozens of HR assessment providers on the market, choosing the right one can be difficult. With buzzwords ranging from big data and gamification to smart-analytics, it can be difficult to determine what actually provides value and what a good service looks [...]