Talent Leader
Build a five-star sales team with talent optimization
Building a successful sales team is no easy task. Fortunately, talent optimization helps you design, hire, and inspire winning teams.
Why HR shouldn’t freeze career paths
Career paths are a long-term investment in human capital. They engage and motivate your employees. Here’s what happens when they’re frozen.
Understand your employees from day one.
Imagine if you could understand your employees from day one—and even accurately predict how they’ll respond to changes within your team or organization.
Overcoming gender disparity in the workplace
It’s no secret that gender disparity is prevalent in the workplace. We’re diving into some of these issues, their causes, and their solutions on our blog.
Not a good fit termination: Steps to follow
Occasionally, employees don’t fit your culture. Here, some leadership experts share their perspectives and advice on how to deal with these employees.
Cutting edge human resources: trends in talent optimization
Talent optimization is the future of work. Science, technology, analytics, and research will all help you leverage your people. Check out these resources.
Is it legal for employers to give applicants pre-employment assessments?
Not sure about the use of pre-employment assessments in the hiring process? Get the ins and outs from one of our scientists.
Reason #4 why employees quit: poor organizational fit
Disengagement can be caused by misalignment with jobs, managers, and teams. Here’s reason number four why employees quit.
Reason #3 why good employees quit: team fit
There are four forces of employee disengagement and poor team fit is number three on the list. (Previously we’ve covered poor job fit and poor manager fit, which are reasons one and two.) Top organizations are built on high-functioning teams. That’s because a team that’s fully aligned is greater than the sum of its parts; team…
These people problems are destroying your business—and HR can’t solve them.
Business leaders, can we talk? I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First the bad news: The vast majority of your businesses–regardless of your company size or industry–won’t reach their full potential this year. Instead, a variety of people issues will create risk for your business and destroy value. This “people tax” will…
How to hire & retain web developers: solving the talent gap
As more companies embrace the rise of technology and data mining, there aren’t enough qualified developers and analysts to go around. The BLS projected that the rate of employment for web developers will jump 15 percent by 2026. For analysts, job outlook varies on niche; on the high end, the rate of employment for information…