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What Your HR Manager Can (and Can’t) Accomplish with Assessments

The People Equation

“Hey Jennifer, we want to do a team building event with the XYZ personality assessment.”. Whether it was in my role as a corporate trainer, or as an independent executive coach, the theme was constant: a team leader sees a need to develop “people skills” and thinks that a personality assessment will help achieve that goal.

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7 Surprising Methods to Ensure Team Success

6Q

One of the ways to discover peoples’ natural aptitudes is by giving team members personality tests like the Myer Briggs assessment which reveal weaknesses and strengths and also shed light on how people interact. Team building is even more critical with the increase in remote work. In Summary.

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Can We Really Test People for Potential?

Analytics in HR

Have you ever taken an aptitude or work personality test? Maybe it was part of a job application, one of the many ways your prospective employer tried to figure out whether you were the right fit. Yet, assessing candidates’ and employees’ potential presents significant challenges. We’ll look at some of them here.

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Approaches to learning and development assessment: getting the right fit

qpeople

Employee assessments At qpeople , we field lots of requests for employee assessments – some to whittle down unwieldy candidate pools, others to benchmark individuals’ aptitudes and abilities or to measure the impact of a training programme. 360-degree assessments By contrast, 360-degree assessment is a peer evaluation system.

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5 Biggest Challenges of a Remote Hiring Process

6Q

Remote work opportunities are attractive to employers and employees alike. To overcome time zone differences, you can use automatic scheduling software to pre-set your availability to your time zone and let the applicants schedule themselves for the interview at their convenience. Image: Pexels. Dealing with technical difficulties.

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October 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Julie Winkle Giulioni

A Coachable Mindset Begins With HUNGER – Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building. Mediocre Ideas Dominate – Neal Burgis of Successful Solutions. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Brenda Yoho of Be the Solution Daily. And it all falls short. Find out why. Connect on Twitter @Julie_WG.

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What Is a Competency Model? Expert Guidance on Developing Yours

Analytics in HR

Annelise Pretorius, Psychometrics Assessments Expert, AIHR The benefits of a competency model The benefits of an effective competency model include: Targeted training and development: Understanding employee strengths and weaknesses helps you plan focused development programs that boost performance and hone useful skills.