The 13 Performance Drivers: Exhibiting People Smarts
People skills are critical when it comes to a recruiter selecting final candidates for presentation to a hiring decision maker. But how? Not all people skills are simple. Performance in different open roles require different types and levels of people skills. Knowing about such skills is not the same thing as exhibiting them in the moment on the job. Recruiters need a way to sort though all of this.
The grid below includes posts that were done here after I stopped using Linked In as my main blogging platform, as well as some that were created on this web site before I started to use Linked In.
The Iceberg Model- A Practical Tools for Use by Recruiters
Recruiters need to understand...
People Perform On the Job, Not Resumes!
Recruiting software vendors are really selling a big lie. "Give me a resume, and I can accurately predict this person's future performance on the job." They cannot. Resumes are generally a few...
Effective Business Coaching: What Does It Take
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The Key to Staff Engagement: Performance Contracting, Not Performance Appraisal
Use the controls at the bottom of the PDF viewer to zoom in and out. Or use the forward and backward buttons on each page. to move through the pages. Power appraisal is a power game that staff...
Social Intelligence for Business Coaches
Just what is social intelligence or emotional intelligence? If you are a business coach, you need to have a clear understanding what it takes to be socially intelligent. This short video (3.5...
A Manager’s Short Guide to Resistance to Change
I was asked today to comment on a situation in which an organization was experiencing serious resistance to change around the implementation of a software application. They had read some Internet...
The Contradictions in Corporate Training
Social paradigms drive our thinking in ways that we don't often recognize. The university education model dominates our thinking about corporate skill training, largely because so many of us have...
AI Devices, Ethics, and Human Free Will
AI Devices, Ethics, and Human Free Will Many people are posting on the Web about the need to ensure that AI devices are 'ethical'. They miss the point. The people creating AI devices are the...
Most Soft Skill Training Investments Just Pour Money Down the Toilet
Does your organization invest in people or soft skill training for your managers and your high potential | high performers. Do you invest in technical or hard skill training? There are some hard...
Don’t Let the Idea of Micro-Aggression Throw Your Workplace Investigation Off-Course!
Summary Despite the growing use of terms like ‘micro-aggression’, they are not really helpful to workplace investigators. They need to conduct their investigations in a way that allows their...
Self-Awareness and People Values: Essentials for ROI from Soft Skill Training Investments
Not all training is created equal. When evaluated from the viewpoint of ROI on the training investment in terms of productivity increase, a lot of it leaves much to be desired. But you can get ROI...
Decisions, Decisions – We all make decisions all the time at work ….
Scroll through this PDF to find out how to get insight into your own decision making style. Build on this self-awareness by seeing how your DM style is the same or different those with whom you...
When did national leadership become synonymous with global destruction?
We are such a tribal species!!!! Ask the average person anywhere in the world - what do you want for your children? Most people, I believe, would say something like .... "The opportunity to live in...
The World is Broke – We can Fix It: Boom Big Ideas
We can change the world in ten years – all it will take is hope, collaboration, money, and a portfolio-based approach to action All the images have embedded links. Click on them to browse.I...
A call for a different type of response … Where are you Mr Gates, and Mr. Buffet, and some of the others with your kind of wealth
You thought that reality had hit you when you were asked to stay at home in face of COVID 19. Unfortunately, Real reality is finally rearing its ugly head. Wide spread social disruption in the face...
COVID 19 Round Two: The Beginning of Economic Social Panic
Reflecting on 2 weeks of reading COVID 19 news articles on the Internet The last week has seen a lot of turbulence in Canada and the United States. But no matter what your point of view, reality has...
Learning from COVID 10: On Modern Supply Chains and Democracies
Global supply chains are now so interlocked across national boundaries that widespread negative social events in Tier 1 and Tier 2 source good manufacturing countries have dramatic impact across the...
The AND Challenge and COVID-19: Avoiding the Social Psychology of Panic
Yesterday, I posted on Linked In, essentially stating that every one is responding instinctively at some level to the coronavirus threat. We are genetically wired to response in-the-moment in a...
The psychology of social panic: The US Covid 19 Response
What happened? How could the President of the United States and the very bright people who advise have gotten it so wrong? Or did they? Could it be that they...
Managers / Leaders are Made, Not Born: Part 2
Despite what many people seem to thing, managers are made not born. In the absence of a managerial development program, organizations get managers who are developed in an very informal way. Some of...
Managers / Leaders Are Made, Not Born – Part 1
The Managerial Skill Framework Video Blog- Part 1 Managing others is not a simple thing to learn. Yet many people move into management jobs without a sense of what skills they need to be effective....
Individual Learning Styles and Training Effectiveness
Want to increase the effectiveness of your workplace training programs? Take steps to ensure that each major piece of content is presented in a way that matches one of the 4 learning styles in...
80/20 Model of Skill Utilization
Different work place situations require different levels of skill. Understanding this is critical for those who invest in training, either as individuals, or as organizational leaders investing in...
A Work Place Capability Involves 3 Kinds of Knowing ….
If a work place skill combines a value with a capability, a work place capability involves 3 kinds of knowing.
The Ethics of AI: Framing the Dialogue
Click here to go directly to the video essay. AI is just another technology. Its implementation is about to break out, after decades of being something that only innovators and early adopters...
Soft Skills in 2019: Getting Beyond the Current Confusion
Reading this piece This piece is 3800 plus words long, longer than the recommended length for blog posts. How can you approach it to get the best value from it? This piece has two objectives. Create...
Becoming A ‘People Smart’ Manager: The Managerial Skill Framework
Recently, one of the young managers in my network and I had a conversation about becoming a “people smart” manager. Real World Expertise and Internet Popularity – the Difference Her: ...
Hiring for Future Make or Break It Performance
Most managers and human resource recruiters hire for appearance. The keyword screening algorithms used to reduce the number of resumes to a manageable number have contributed to this. Managers and...
Internet Learning: A Positive Future or a Coming Consumer Nightmare?
Introduction Mirasee’s The State of Online Learning 2018 Report Mirasee, a Montreal Canada based e-learning strategist and provider of guidance to future on-line learning providers...
The Dueling Twosome
Two individuals interact in ways that others might consider inappropriate during project working meetings. Dealing with it in a project / program context is can...
Did You Know: Your Recruiters will More and More Have to Be Sales People
The Change in Talent Pool will Make All Recruiting More Difficult Demographics tell us that the absolute number of people making up the talent pool in Canada and the Unites States is decreasing....
Getting E-Learning Right: Building Adaptive E-Learning Programs
Human beings, unless they engage in the careful, systematic work and thinking that is the backbone of modern psychology, basically understand others by thinking others are like themselves. We...
Life in Organizations is Closer to Life In Tribes Than You Think
Many human abilities are as much instinctive as thoughtful. Excellence at work requires thought rather than just responding instinctively. You Cannot Get Away from Tens of Thousands of Years of...
Most Recruiting is Focused On Delivering “Good Enough”
Interview resume-based recruiting is all about “good enough” hiring, not future performance excellence on-the-job. Talk-based Recruiting Persists The academic research is clear – talk during...
Kill Performance Appraisal: It is A Waste of Time
Performance appraisal is a waste of time if you are looking for business results. My History with Performance Appraisal Our evolved instinctive approaches to living in tribes makes power-based...
Finding Talented People is Getting Tougher
Finding the talent you need to grow your innovative business is no longer easy and will get tougher. In our last blog, we discussed the difficulty in finding and hiring flexible, creative people who...
Agile Conflict
Kaled’s Dilemna Kaled caught me in the hall as I was moving from one meeting to the next. “Hi, I’m going to this meeting, too, but I wanted to catch you just beforehand to talk about a problem I’m...
Finding Flexible, Talented People is Getting Tougher and Tougher …
A Difficult Recruitment I’m doing a recruitment for a fast-growing, boutique consulting firm. Like many small firms, the entrepreneur owner is looking for a creative, self-starting individual who...
