By Ed Nathanson As someone who has been in the recruiting business for over 20 years now, I can’t even attempt to list all of the different “must have” tools over the years (and a lot of them turns out were far from “must have”). As a business function, we are always looking to gain an…
Rachel was a star student. She was in my homeroom and my first period English class, so I saw her all morning and was responsible for reviewing her grades. This sweet girl had one best friend, but she didn’t really talk to anyone else. She was silent throughout every class unless called on to answer…
Valuable people data is all around us—it’s up to us to put it to good use. It was about this time last year that I purchased a high tech fitness tracker. I was immediately awash in a steady stream of health data ranging from how many steps I had taken to calories burned to heart…
By Matt Poepsel, PhD
By Max Yoder If you‘ve hired people in the past, you’ve probably heard this one before: it’s about the apparently gregarious, enthusiastic candidate who, after acing your hiring process, rarely perks up again like they did in those initial meetings. At Lesson.ly, we call this the Affected Perk Problem, or APP, and we see it all…
By Matt Poepsel, PhD We managers often face many challenges, and when working with individuals on our team, it’s not uncommon for us to become exasperated when we don’t get the results we were expecting. Frustrated, we wonder what the heck is going on, and we may even second-guess the skills or dedication of our staff…