by Ira Wolfe | Aug 18, 2010 | Employee Performance Management
When small business owners and CEOs are struggling in real-life paying their bills, competing in a global marketplace, and finding qualified workers, the 3D virtual community of Second Life sounds like a spectacular waste of time. But Second Life might just be the...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 15, 2005 | Employee Motivation, Employee Performance Management
When President Bush looked toward his embattled director of FEMA and announced to the world “Brownie, You’re doing a heck of job”, he epitomized one of the most frequent and damaging problems in corporate America today – the halo effect. Not...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 16, 2002 | Employee Performance Management, Employment Testing, In The News, Leadership
by Dennis Reardon (staff writer) Fred Engle knows all too well the importance of cross training workers. While running a carpet and rug business in Lancaster County in the 1980s, one of Engle’s most valuable employees decided to quit. The company struggled to...
by Ira Wolfe | Apr 26, 2002 | Employee Performance Management, Hiring Process, In The News
Program analyzes positions, candidates to establish expectations by Tracey McGraw Ira Wolfe has created what he calls a blueprint for matching the right people to the right jobs. He calls his creation CriteriaOne™. It is a job-analysis process, said the president of...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 16, 2001 | Employee Performance Management, Employment Testing
Today’s manager is really the conductor of his own orchestra. Like an orchestra, no matter how good you are, you sometimes need to stop and re-sync. Were the violins too loud? Could you hear the flutes? How did the composer mean for the music to be played? Top...
