Predicting success : evidence-based strategies to hire the right people and build the best team / David Lahey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahey, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personnel management.

Employee selection.

Success in business.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Make the right hires every time, with an analytical approach to talent Predicting Success is a practical guide to finding the perfect member for your team. By applying the principles and tools of human analytics to the workplace, you''ll avoid bad culture fits, mismatched skillsets, entitled workers, and other hiring missteps that drain the team of productivity and morale. This book provides guidance toward implementing tools like the Predictive Index®, behavior analytics, hiring assessments, and other practical resources to build your best team and achieve the best outcomes. Written by a huma

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 How to Start; The Blame Game; The Office Paradigm, Revised; The Awakening; The Cost of a Bad Hire; Why Things Fail; Group Therapy; Chapter 2 How to Break Analysis Paralysis; Chapter 3 How to Lead; Allowing the Employees to Be the Best Versions of Themselves; Third-Box Thinking; Measure It, Then Do It; Using Behavior Analytics to Produce a Better Leader; What Is Predictive Index® (PI®)?; Effective Feedback Is a Second Paycheck; Do as I Do; Everyone''s a Leader; Cultivating Principals; National Telcom Company Example; More Than Money

Self-Development Rules Listening to the Results; The Leader as Introvert; Using Workforce Analytics to Find Your Next Leader; Chapter 4 How to Follow; What the Birds Know; Following Types: People Styles Meet the Facebook Crowd; The Hierarchy-Free Ideal; Better Together; Building Smarter Teams; Putting Teams to the Test; Talk About It; Chapter 5 How to Decide; Timing Is Everything; Facing the Unknowns; Brain Science''s Decision-Making Play; Instinct Favors Intricacy; Decision-Making, Deconstructed; Evidence Beats Opinion; Decision-Making Tactics; Making a Decision with Every Tool Engaged

Decision by Job Interview: Insufficient Why Cognition Matters; PLI®: For More Than Hiring; Chapter 6 How to Persuade; The Role of the Subconscious; Speaking from the Corps; Emulating Emo; The Stanford Prison Experiment; Asking for More; The Forbes List; Chapter 7 How to Communicate; Communication Rules; Do Unto Others; Case Study: Communication at Stanley Manufacturing, Toronto, Canada; Simplicity above All; Body Language Speaks Volumes; Communicating with Your Ears; Building Trust through Communication; Communication Tactics; Communications Leader, Lead Thyself; Barriers to Communication

Communication Tips Chapter 8 How to Assess; Case Study: The Big Brothers Big Sisters® Organization; The Science of Human Resources; United States Government (EEOC) ""Rules of the Road"" for Using Testing; Behavioral Assessments; Putting Behavior Analysis on Ice; Selling Apple Pie to Americans; Motivation and Human Behavior; Asking Questions: Behavioral Surveys; Business Applications of Behavioral Science; Behavioral Assessments in Reverse; An Assessment of Behavioral Assessments; Picking a Behavioral Assessment Approach; The Productivity Ambition Matrix; Chapter 9 How to Engage

The Engagement Anxiety Defining the Engaged Employee; Why Is Engagement Important?; Employee Engagement: A How-To; The Role Behavior Analyses Have to Play; Share the Wealth; The Microsoft Example; Employee Engagement in Down Times; Chapter 10 How to Resolve; The Cost of Conflict; Conflict Is ""Good""; The Psychology of Conflict; Laughter''s Long Legacy; Think About It; The Predictive Index®, Explained; The ISATTM/SSATTM, Revealed; On-Ice Application; The Predictive Index® and the Social Profit World; Transitioning from Boredom to the Top; Leadership Development and Deconflicting; Conflict 101

Stories of Success

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-118-98598-2