I’ve talked to a lot of managers over the years who lament at the “skills-gap.” They claim they’re just not able to find the qualified candidates they need to fill their jobs.
Hiring for Performance not History
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Why Team Members Can Drive Us Crazy
It’s almost a given now that, if we want to work with people, we need to know their personality traits. Most managers have been to some sort of personality “typing” workshop to help them understand how to get the most from their team members and get along with their own managers…I’ve completed many of these for myself and I’ve even administered and interpreted some of them to my clients during my career as a counselor. Some of their findings I resonate with; others I find to be a stretch. The problem isn’t in the testing; it’s how we treat people.
Estimating Projects using PERT and Fermi Tests
I once inherited a project that was 2 years late. The project had languished for so long that it was a pure challenge just to breathe new life into it. Everyone has given up on it and tossed into the corner of their "other duties as assigned" pile. It quickly became...