Toxic, Psycho, Crazy. You know you’ve used these words to describe employees, colleagues and sometimes company executives! No matter the word, your best defense is to keep people with toxic tendencies from being hired into your company.

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It’s a natural thing for us humans to be biased. It’s all fine and good to be biased about your college football team being the best ever, or state your kids are angels. But when it comes to hiring and interviewing, being biased is not a good...

You’re dropped into rugged, unforgiving terrain and have to survive. (Sorry, no Bear Grylls to save you). Would you rather have a single-bladed pocketknife or a Leatherman? If you went with door #1, I worry about you. You’d want the...

How important is it to use validated assessments? Not very, if you have a few hundred thousand to a million dollars burning a hole in your organization’s pocket. The use of non-validated assessments can expose you to lawsuits which, to be...

Remember when you were a kid? Your idea of a perfect meal might’ve been chocolate bars and gummy bears. But as you grew older, so did your preferences. You might still like the occasional gummy bear, but your palette has evolved. (more…)