Do you have a Blind Optimist at work? The kind of person who sees good in everything, no matter what the situation? That ever so cheery person who never seems to be living in reality? A little ray of sunshine in the workplace is good right? The sprinkler alarms could be raining water down on…
Do you have a Walkway Stroller/Web Browser at your office? You may recognise the type: Characteristics: Highly mobile around the office complex and loves peeping into others’ cubicle (workstation) finding out how others are managing their work and life. This behaviour may manifest itself virtually. The walkway stroller may not cruise the actual hallways, they…
For most jobs, suitability/behavioural factors are about 50% of the reason people succeed or fail at a job. Therefore, effectively measuring suitability should be an essential part of any job fit or hiring assessment. The importance of assessing behaviour during recruitment is evidenced by the fact that most organisations hire people for their eligibility and…
Do you have that “always right” never in doubt employee in your organisation? We’ve all seen them, some of us have worked with them and most of us can certainly identify a few of them. Those personality types that muck up the atmosphere at work and typically put a wrench in productivity because of their…
Too bad you don’t have sixteen weeks of challenges, obstacle courses and road blocks to find the winning Amazing Job Team! I will admit it. My guilty pleasure is watching “The Amazing Race”. It’s a long running TV show that starts typically with 12 two person teams and follows them as they race around…
You have that employee that doesn’t quite fit or is not quite up to performance standards. Some refer to them as “toxic” or “pains”. In previous blogs we have referred to them by different stereotypes… Mini Napoleon, Crowd Pleaser, Emotional Moody, Ego Almighty, Verbal Caustic… Etc. These employees are disrupters in the work place often…
Wouldn’t “What do you like to do?” be a great question for you the job applicant to hear from an interviewer? It would signal to the job seeker that this place, the one you are considering spending eight to ten hours a day for 40-50 weeks out of the year actually cares about you. Being…
Below is one of the original Harrison Assessments case studies from 30 years ago! For those too young to know, the CES (now called Centrelink) is the Australian government employment service. The Challenge It was 1990 and BP and the Australian Commonwealth Employment Service (CES, now Centrelink) had a problem. They were jointly running a…
Forbes Magazine published an article on Accountability titled, “7 Ways to Build Accountable Organizations“. Within the article, the author posses the question: Where do you need to invest your time and attention to build an environment of accountability? This is a question many organizations ask themselves and consistently struggle to find the answer. A significant…
Think back to the first manager you had in your own career… was this person a good match for you? Did he/she take time to get to know you as an individual and then train, mentor, and support you? Did he/she give you feedback, correct your performance when this was needed in a fair but…
