What is Your Management Style?
I'm sure you have firsthand experience of the impact that a manager’s style can have on a team's performance. It's crucial to ensure that the right manager is in the right role for maximum success. There's no one-size-fits-all approach to management. Each style has...
How Self-Awareness Can Help You Work Smarter
Most people know they have to acquire the appropriate level of education, training or experience to land a particular job, but how many think about how natural personality traits impact the type of work you thrive in? Understanding and applying self-awareness can...
Do Your Employees Like Your Management Style?
“People don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.” You’ve probably heard this statement multiple times, but it’s true. Let’s face it: If your employees don’t like working for you, they probably won’t stay. Or even worse, they’ll stick around long enough to grumble and...
The Value of Self-Awareness in the Workplace
Self-awareness is the key to personal growth. Without accurate information regarding our own strengths and weaknesses, we can really fool ourselves. We can mess up projects, relationships and even life plans. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is the best way to...
Four Ways to Keep Great Employees
Do you believe people are your best asset? If so, what are you doing to keep them? Knowing each employee’s personality, motivators and behaviors — which we measure through the MAP (Multi-Assessment Profile) hiring and management assessment — can help you manage your...
Know Your Hiring Target
If you don’t know what you’re hiring for, you can’t hit the target. It's easy to jump into the selection process armed with either too little information (just the job title) or too much information (like an exhaustive, multi-page job description). We’ve created a...
How We Maintain Our Company Culture
If you want to maintain a great culture, you must model and reward the behavior you are promoting - especially during times of rapid growth and change. It’s not enough to post your values on a plaque and your website and assume they will be followed. Last year, our...
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What Temperaments Do You Have On Your Team? [Infographic]
Every good manager knows that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to leadership. What motivates one team member might drain another, and one employee may enjoy a task that stresses another one out. How you manage and motivate your team depends largely on each...
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The Real Cost of a Bad Hire [Infographic]
What does a bad hire actually cost your company? Is there any way to overcome a bad hiring decision? The infographic below outlines some of the costs you could face as a company for a bad hire but also offers a few tips to help you implement tools that can help you...
How to Conduct More Effective Interviews
How to Conduct More Effective Interviews Let’s face it: Interviews are hard for everyone. Assessing who is the best after talking to several well-rehearsed candidates can be difficult, but there are several techniques that can improve the quality of an interview....
How to Turn Around a Toxic Company Culture
Perhaps you are trying to transform a negative company culture. Or maybe you haven’t been consistent with hiring to fit a healthy company culture, so there is inconsistent culture alignment. You might also be dealing with the fallout from employees carrying the...
5 Hiring Practices That Build a Great Company Culture
How do you make sure you’re hiring people who will strengthen your company culture rather than tear it down? You can begin by slowing down to define and create a clear system that will pay off in the long run. Even if you are currently feeling the pressure to get a...
Introverted iNtuition vs. Extroverted iNtuition
Everyone uses intuition to some degree. People who use intuition pay attention to their impressions and are able to decipher meaning from patterns of information. Someone who prefers iNtuition has learned to think through data and patterns in order to discover new...
How We’ve Built an Award-Winning Culture
A company does not become a great place to work overnight or by accident. It takes a carefully created and executed plan to build a culture employees love -- which is exactly what Qualbe’s CEO set out to do when he started his own company. Having experienced the pain...
How to Choose the Right Pre-Hire Assessment
Have you ever read a blog that was pushing for or against one particular employee assessment? HR professionals learn from HR blogs written by HR experts -- who tend to believe deeply in the value of a particular type of pre-hire assessment (or the damage caused by...
How the DISC Profile Reveals Top Candidates
Can you pinpoint the behavioral responses that your top performing managers produce consistently and naturally? What about your top-performing salespeople? Administrative assistants? Let’s turn these questions on their heads. Can you identify the...
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How To Make Efficient Hiring Decisions [Infographic]
Top candidates are on and off the job market within 10 days, according to Officevibe. Based on the average time most organizations take to hire, that applicant who caught your eye was happily settled in his new position 24 days before you made an offer! The pressure...
Unlocking the 16 Personality Types: A Guide to Understanding People
Some of the most well known personality profiles are based on the Theory of Psychological Types, which was put forth by Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung (1875-1961). Jung suspected that the seemingly random behaviors of people could be anticipated and detected through...