Structured Interviews: A Conversation with an HR Team
Previously, we’ve advised implementing structured interviews in growing organizations. Today, I had the privilege of sitting down with the HR team at Qualbe Marketing Group to get a firsthand look at how to make that transition. Pull up a chair and take a look at our...
Get More Out of Your Structured Interview Process
If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it be? What do you think of lava lamps? And Dilbert? If you could be remembered for one sentence, what would it be? If you had...
How Holland Code Can Strengthen Your Hiring Decisions
Do you have the information you need to make the best hiring decision? As industry landscapes continue to shift, the requirements and expectations surrounding successful team roles are evolving. Even if you consistently receive top-notch resumes and stellar...
Improve Your Hiring Decisions by Measuring Productivity
Hiring is expensive. Bad hiring is even worse. Currently, a search of “the cost of bad hiring” returns more than 36 million results in just over 60 seconds. Plenty of helpful articles have been written on the topic. If you haven’t done any reading on this, allow...
7 Uses of Job Assessments HR Professionals Should Promote
There's something powerful about using job assessments in your organization—especially if you can tap into the right information at the right time. Like that one time you hired the candidate who had the stellar interview and you just knew they were going to be a...
Activator Strength: Hustle or Haste?
An important concept to understand when taking the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment is understanding the difference between a talent and a strength. The organization (Gallup) that created the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment defines both: Talent: a natural way of...
Achiever Strength: Workhorse or Workaholic?
If you have taken the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment, you have a Top 5 list. But is this list your Top 5 strengths or talents? What is the difference? Gallup--the organization that created the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment--defines both: Talent: a natural way of...
Introverted Sensing vs Extroverted Sensing
Sensing is one of the 4 basic functions in Myers & Briggs personality theory. Referring to the way a person prefers to take in information, it is the opposite of iNtuition and simply means that the person prefers to pay more attention to data taken in through the...
Introverted Feeling vs Extroverted Feeling
Everyone has feelings. Some are more expressive. Others are more reserved. But everyone has feelings. In Myers & Briggs terms, the Feeling function simply means there is a preference in making decisions by considering what the people involved in the situation care...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High C
This is our final post in our series on 4 DISC traits every manager should know. Today, we'll take a look at the High C. If you have a High D, High I or High S on your team, don't miss our previous posts where we looked at the common characteristics of each one. For...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High S
This post is the third in a series of four. Today we will take a look at the characteristics of the high S's on your team. If you missed it, be sure to familiarize yourself with the characteristics of the high D's and high I's, too! For those highest in...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High I
This post is the second in a series of four. Today we will take a look at the characteristics of the high I's on your team. If you missed it, be sure to familiarize yourself with the characteristics of the high D's, too! For those highest in the Influence dimension,...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High D
I say it all the time: People do what makes sense to them. And yet, I meet with manager after manager who can't figure out why their employee is behaving so randomly or illogically. It is not unusual for a new client to say to me that they don't put a lot of stock in...
Evaluating Conflict Management Strategies
Let's face it. Anytime you work closely with anyone, conflict is bound to happen. It is an unfortunate, normal part of teamwork. Countless articles, books and conferences have been devoted to the subject because it is so commonplace. Most likely, you've already chosen...