by Ira Wolfe | Sep 24, 2012 | Employee Performance Management, Employment Testing
How does a business start to improve the feedback it gives and receives? It begins with self-awareness. Self-awareness goes well beyond just taking a DISC or Myers-Brigg Type assessment. Yes, these tools are a means to the end. Too many organizations unfortunately...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 11, 2012 | Employee Performance Management
It’s Fall again. That means football season has begun….and employee performance reviews are starting to chill the air between employers and employees. But football affords an excellent analogy about how effective employee feedback is supposed to work. The...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 4, 2012 | Employee Performance Management
The first and most important ingredient in managing performance is honesty. In order for a performance appraisal to have any benefit at all, managers and employees must be honest with each other and the process. Managers must candidly address not only the perceived...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 31, 2012 | DISC, Employee Performance Management, Employment Testing
Performance reviews, one of the most disliked managerial responsibilities, are difficult enough to do without personal bias getting in the way. The DISC behavioral profile is an excellent tool to help managers understand how their personal preferences might cloud...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 24, 2012 | Employee Performance Management
Mothers are pretty incredible people. Beginning with conception through adulthood, they care for us, feed us, mentor us, sacrifice for us, protect us and … you get the point. But the one thing most mothers don’t do well is teach top performing sales skills. In fact,...
by Ira Wolfe | Jun 3, 2012 | Employee Performance Management
Effectively documenting employee performance. It is sometime boring. It is sometime time-consuming. But it is ALWAYS Important. But rather than focus exclusively on “how to document performance,” let’s consider why documenting employee performance is so...
