July 22, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“This employee should go far — and the sooner he starts, the better we’ll be.” “Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.” “He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.” Anonymous Employee Reviews from U.S. Federal Evaluations One of my doctoral dissertation committee member […]
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June 12, 2012 by Wally Bock
The US Army was no stranger to games for training. Sand table exercises for training in tactical decision making were in use more than a century ago. Forty years ago, the Army commissioned a training game called “Firefight” from James F. Dunnigan, developer of many strategic board games. Firefight later became a commercial game. That […]
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June 5, 2012 by Wally Bock
Calibrate your hype detectors! Stock up on BS repellent! Gamification has come to recruiting. Gamification is already the “next big thing” in management and training. We’re promised that it will change the dissatisfied to the engaged while painlessly and effortlessly helping people learn complex skills. Now the same promise and hype have come to recruiting. […]
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May 13, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. According to a new study, the workplace is making U.S. men and women overweight. Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center […]
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May 8, 2012 by Wally Bock
Back when I was in my corporate period, I visited our field facilities regularly. The visits had two purposes. One was to raise the corporate flag and remind everyone that we were all in it together. The other was to work on manager development. I used to sit down with the facility manager and review […]
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April 29, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.” Stephen Wright  One of my volunteer passions has been to be a puppy raiser for a wonderful organization called Guide Dogs of America. My wife and I have, since the early 1990’s, raised four guide dogs and our latest one was turned in […]
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March 25, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. According to a survey of more than 500 U.S. employees conducted by United Sample, 45 percent of all employees […]
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March 4, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.†Tom Krause Executive coaching has continued to evolve and grow and I have written quite a number of blogs about the field, evidence based results, use of assessments and some of the pitfalls. In some ways, it is still the […]
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February 28, 2012 by Wally Bock
The article under HR Morning’s tantalizing headline, “Cha-ching! Biz plans to spend $125K on loyal employees,” definitely got me to read the story. Here’s the opening. “This year, The Marketing Arm, a Dallas-based marketing and promotions agency, is starting a unique sabbatical program that it estimates will cost between $125,000 and $200,000 in 2012 alone.” […]
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January 27, 2012 by Ken Nowack
Written by Sam Alibrando, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and president of APC, Inc. his own consulting firm that works with organizations and senior executives. There are few things more important to the success of an organization, than getting the right people into your organization (and then keeping them). The costs of a bad hire are […]
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