If I had to pick one issue that is the most prevalent in my work with teams, it is – without doubt - communication. Experience with our Team Health Check shows that this is the hardest thing for many team leaders to get right, despite their best intentions.
Here are some of the reasons why communication often [...]

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We are often asked by recruitment consultants and employers if it is easy to ‘cheat’ on the Harrison Assessment. The short answer is “no”!  The following article, from Dr Dan Harrison’s ‘Best Practices in Talent Assessment’, explains why HA is different.
One of the biggest challenges of any behavioural assessment is to determine how truthfully the [...]

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This is a recording of the webinar held on Wednesday 25 August 2010.Â
View now for an offer closing 31 August 2010.

Top Tips For Interviewing Candidates from Susan Rochester on Vimeo.

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Research shows that if you use an interview as your main decider, you have only a 14% chance that the person you choose will perform well in the role!  Today’s article by Dr Dan Harrison explores why. Â
Given that we continue to use interviews, it’s in our interests to make them as effective as possible.  Our webinar TOMORROW will show you how!  Book your [...]

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When interviewing job candidates, we all have favourite questions we always like to ask.  The effectiveness of some of these questions is questionable, to say the least. Â
As candidates, I’m sure we’ve all heard some screamers. I thought asking a person what car they drive was pretty poor, until someone told me they’d been asked “If you were a [...]

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If your chances of being hired or promoted – or winning a new client - depended 20% on your qualifications and 80% on your reputation, would you need to change your behaviour?
I’m sure for most readers, the answer is ‘no’ because you are already aware of how important your reputation is to your success.
In this post [...]

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As you are aware, ‘Balance at Work’ is consistently on the lookout for value add for our clients.
The good news is that I have recently attended a program which I know will change the way you look at stress, your health and well-being in a simple, yet dramatic way. The program teaches you how to [...]

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Did you know you can be more effective, for longer periods, if you pay more attention to what you’re doing?Â
(We covered the possibility of doing less to achieve more in an earlier post on multi-tasking.)
Driving a manual car recently after many years of driving automatics – and the extra concentration that required to get anywhere - started [...]

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On my way back from Melbourne last week, I sat near a girl who was reading a book called ‘Workplace Magick’.  This started me thinking about a lot of things, mostly about how bad things must be at work for someone to hope a book like that might help. Â
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 Have you ever felt that desperate?  I know [...]

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Preparing for the ‘Recruitment and Selection Essentials’ workshop later this week started me thinking about the shortcuts we sometimes take when recruiting new staff.Â
Often this is because we’re in such a desperate hurry to get somebody (anybody?) onboard that we are willing to take a risk or two. Â
Here are some suggestions for minimising the risks:Â
Do have [...]

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