David Hoff is chief operating officer and executive vice president of leadership development for EASI·Consult®. He leads organization transformation projects for private sector companies and large public sector agencies of the fed
This is the second article in a series about individual assessments. In my first article in this series, I discussed the elements you typically find in any assessment: job requirements; testing; a ...
This is the first article in a three-part series focused on individual assessments. Individual assessments are not executive searches. We don’t find the people; we evaluate your finalist can ...
Were they learning agile and, if so, how? What, if anything, do three legendary inventors and three statesmen have in common? As part of this year’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI ...
What might be the differences between how introverts and extroverts approach a job interview, and might that affect how they prepare? Over the years, I have written about introverts and extroverts ...
Those of us in human resources – and, more specifically, talent management – know the time- and cost-investment of creating real-life work scenarios and challenges to help participants dem ...
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. I don’t have the energy level at 65 years old that I had at 25. Are these cliches actually true? And, even if they are, what do t ...
If you look up the word “spiritual” in the Oxford Dictionary, you’ll read that the word is related to or affecting the human spirit or soul, as opposed to material or physical things ...
You may already be able to answer the first part of that question about what a 360-degree assessment is – a questionnaire in which multiple raters provide an employee with feedback on the same s ...
Often, what you see on the surface of a situation is really just the symptom of a bigger problem, not the problem itself. To really remedy the situation, you must work backward and go deeper to get to ...
What have you done for yourself today, this week, this month and this year that will ensure you show up as your best you? In our 24/7 wired world, it is increasingly harder to set and maintai ...
A 360-degree assessment is the description given to a questionnaire in which multiple raters provide an employee with feedback on the same set of questions. In most cases, an employee would e ...
Last summer, I wrote a series of articles about the nine dimensions of learning agility separately. I noted that my colleague Warner Burke - a Professor at Columbia University who built on the origina ...
In my first installment of this three-part article, I discussed how the training and early job experiences of Warner Burke and myself influenced our thinking and therefore how we approached writing th ...
On the eve of the publication of the book I co-wrote with Dr. Warner Burke, “Learning Agility: The Key to Leadership Potential,” I thought an interesting place to start a three-part series ...
Is there a relationship between flexibility and perspective? Your initial reaction might be to say, “No,” especially if the word, “flexibility,” brings to mind the image of ...
The smartest person in the room is also the most learning agile, right? The short answer is no. Among the many misconceptions about learning agility is the notion that it is synonymous with learning ...
Russia has always been on my list of places I wanted to visit and the opportunity finally came along this summer. But every time I mentioned my upcoming trip to friends, I got a look like, Wh ...
I recently attended a wedding in Vermont and during the reception, I found myself seated next to the CEO of a start-up company. As we chatted, I shared with him that I worked in leadership developm ...
Did Gerald Ford’s ability to work well with others – something we at EASI·Consult® call Collaborating – help the nation heal after Nixon left office? George ...
It has been interesting from my professional perspective to watch the traditional 9-5 office workday evolve increasing into remote positions and work-from-home opportunities. I first touched on this i ...
The title of this article is a question, and it’s one Marc Effron, President of The Talent Strategy Group, as much as answered with a definitive “yes” in his recent article, “D ...
If you believe what you’ve been reading in many business publications over the last year, the individual performance appraisal tool to assess performance and deliver pay is on its way out in man ...
I was working with a group of senior managers recently and the discussion in the room was that several people were looking for mentors. These people had been told previously that they were high-potent ...
I very recently had the pleasure of spending the first week of May as both a volunteer and spectator at the Wells Fargo Championship. In my role as spectator, I got to watch many of the best ...
In January 2015, I wrote an Insights article titled, “How Highly Does Your Organization Value Collaboration?”. I also wrote about the topic of collaboration as part of a series of ...
Is there a set of conditions that makes some leaders crucial and others inconsequential? According to Harvard business professor Gautam Mukunda, it really depends on the situation. Sometimes, a ...
You can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on the television news without being bombarded by polarized points of view on a host of subjects: climate change, immigration, universal healthcare and frac ...
Decades after his death, Albert Einstein remains an iconic – if enigmatic – figure in both the academic world and pop culture. His image – the signature mop of white hair and bush ...
Last fall, I signed up with a group to go fishing off Cape Hatteras, and was asked to serve as coordinator for our boat. This meant I had to organize transportation and meeting points for a bunch o ...
Have you ever heard of Irena Sandler? She was a Catholic social worker who rescued 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto from certain extinction during World War II. Her story was essentially ...
Are all franchises the same? What do you need to know before you make that financial and emotional investment? What kind of financial resources are required? What personal capabilities need to be bro ...
There are no hard or fast rules when you step into a new leadership role and are faced with whether to keep or replace the existing team. Either way, you are under a spotlight and the first 100 ...
I recently read an article about how important reviewing film and instant replay with coaches is to the performance of football quarterbacks, particularly those at the professional level, on game day. ...
This Insights was contributed by Rebekah Cardenas, Ph.D., vice president of business development and assessment solutions at EASI·Consult®. She believes she already “k ...
This Insights was contributed by Rebekah Cardenas, Ph.D., vice president of business development and assessment solutions at EASI·Consult®. Clients often ask what I think ab ...
While some people who work for consulting firms have never worked within a company, most of our people at EASI•Consult ® have spent part of their careers as internals. Having been in ...
Do you consider Franklin Delano Roosevelt a man who welcomed feedback from his cabinet? And how would you say Lyndon B. Johnson’s “deal-making” ability fit into his overall learning ...
Managers of people, listen up. This is important. I have been writing about learning agility for the last few months. If you remember, I told you in my first column that learning agility is an importa ...
Back in the 1990s, when I worked for Anheuser-Busch, the then chairman, August Busch III, and I were in a meeting where discussion turned to working from home. In those days, “working from home& ...
For the few months I have been writing separately about each of the nine dimensions of learning agility. My firm, EASI·Consult, is doing work on the topic with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a professor ...
For the last few months, I’ve been writing a series of Insights about learning agility and the work that my firm, EASI·Consult, has done on the topic with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a professor ...
For the last few months, I’ve been writing a series of Insights about learning agility and the work that my firm, EASI·Consult, has done on the topic with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a professor ...
For the last few months, I’ve been writing a series of Insights about learning agility and the work that my firm, EASI·Consult, has done on the topic with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a professor ...
Earlier this month, I wrote about Interpersonal Risk Taking, a dimension of learning agility. My firm, EASI·Consult, is doing work on the topic of learning agility with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a p ...
For the last two months, I’ve been writing a series of Insights about learning agility and the work that my firm, EASI·Consult, has done on the topic with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a professor ...
For my last few Insights, I’ve written about the work that my firm, EASI·Consult, has done on the topic of learning agility with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a professor and researcher at Teacher ...
In an Insights that appeared in April, I wrote about the work that my firm, EASI·Consult, has done on the topic of learning agility with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a professor and researche ...
In an Insights earlier this month, I wrote about the work that my firm, EASI·Consult, has done on the topic of learning agility with Warner Burke, Ph.D., a professor and researcher at Teachers ...
For the last few months, I have been nibbling around the edge of learning agility in this column. I wrote about an aspect of learning agility as seen in the movie, Bridge of Spies. I described another ...
I’ve written in the past about learning agility, which I and others define as being able to figure out what to do in a new or even a situation where you aren’t sure what to do next. ...
Those of you who have read my Insights regularly over the last two years may remember that I am a relative newcomer to Wilmington, having lived here for almost four years. In many ways, I like being a ...
Think about the best employees you have ever had. What did that person do that made him or her so special? I am not talking about the people in the top 50 percent. I am talking about the top 1 percent ...
There seems to be more discussion recently about determining “cultural fit” as part of the selection process in organizations. This is a generalization, but the topic seems to be more in v ...
One thing that is clear in the world of health care is that it’s in the midst of incredible change that shows no signs of abating for at least the next 20 years. How do you survive and thrive in ...
Learning agility is a hot topic in my work as a leadership and HR consultant. It also can be a concept that’s difficult to grasp because many people define it differently. Sometimes an ...
In November, I had the privilege to hear Sgt. 1st Class Leroy A. Petry, a Meal of Honor recipient, speak at UNCW as part of its Leadership Lecture Series. I’d like to thank UNCW for the experien ...
I wrote a column at the beginning of the year and raved about the excellent customer service experience I had on a cruise to the Pacific. I talked about delayed service that we had gotten in the dinin ...
As the days become cooler and darkness comes earlier, you can see the end of another calendar year. When I was inside a Fortune 100 company, this also meant fall planning sessions, annual budgets (inc ...
In my last Insights, I looked at compensation, including how it is determined (market rates), what salary ranges are, and how salary increases are determined (merit raises). I promised in this Insight ...
The end of one calendar year and the beginning of a new year is the time when most companies go through this process of evaluating employee’s performance and determining salary increases, ...
Most people are familiar with the labels of introvert and extrovert. Until recently, I thought those were the only options. It turns out there is a third choice – Ambivert. My business ...
Of all the people in an organization, from the entry-level employees to the CEO, who gets the most feedback and who gets the least? Do people who have “bigger” jobs and more people to supe ...
Most people who read my Insights have a tangential relationship with human resources. Those of us in the trenches in organizations are seeing a huge debate going on about the future of Human Resources ...
I am the type of person who thinks when if I hear something once, it may be a random event. When I hear something three or more times, I see a pattern and think, This is something I should pay attenti ...
How do we get organizations to put the same emphasis and importance on their people resources as they do on other resource at their disposal? Would you put a person in the highest role in an organizat ...
I have worked in the people area for almost 40 years. In some of the organizations where I have worked, the stuff I do often falls under Human Resources. Human Resources, by and large, is an unappreci ...
In this space I usually write about Human Resource issues from my perspective as a long-time HR manager turned consultant. I will get to a topic related to HR eventually, but in this Insights I’ ...
A year or so ago I wrote about succession planning in the context of a private family business. Typically the position to be filled is the top slot; in many cases a next-generation family member is in ...
How many of you have gone through a selection process starting with the review of a bunch of résumés, a telephone screen followed by an in-person interview or interviews, found the &ldqu ...
I have been writing Insights for the Wilmington Business Journal for more than a year. I try to be objective and impartial about the subjects I address. This Insights is an exception. In the ...
The need for increasingly superlative superlatives along with a millennial cohort accustomed to recognition for participation has painted today’s managers into a “feedback” corner. W ...
Customer service has become an overused buzzword to describe a few mechanical things that most service employees do as they interact with you in a store or restaurant. A truer test of customer service ...
Where do you come out on this issue? There have been a number of articles about the effect that technology is having on today’s workers and their ability to unplug. I have consulted with an orga ...
A few years ago there were a number of articles in the news and much hand-wringing about the impact on the workforce as the baby boomers rode retired. Some of the biggest headlines came from the feder ...
There are two phrases that I hear all the time in my work. One is “It can be hard to see the forest for the trees,” and the other is “How did things get to where they are today?&rdqu ...
It is with tongue in cheek that I happily write this column. As one who has grown up in and around Human Resources, I know that things have come a long way. To make my case, I am going to refer to an ...
There was a time in my career where a lot of emphasis was put on “climbing the career ladder.” The goal was to get to the top of the pyramid. Some organizations went through an elaborate e ...
For many years, work was something you did to earn money to afford all the fun things you wanted to do when you weren’t at work. Work was a four-letter word. Work was something that was difficul ...
If I asked members of the senior management team in almost any organization how highly they valued collaboration, their response would be that it was really important. Which is to be expected, because ...
One thing the military branches know well is that their people will move in to and out of assignments on a pretty regular basis. I can’t speak for all the branches, but I was impressed with the ...
Many articles about Human Resources focus on HR’s inability to be business people and to partner with line managers. Unfortunately, that is still true in some instances, but it is a picture that ...
In the 1950s there was a famous comedy team called Abbott and Costello. One of their popular routines was a back-and-forth about the names of the players and their different positions. It went like th ...
The NFL could also learn about transparency from this local company. Its systems are open. A person’s performance targets are known. A person’s performance against targets is known. Meetin ...
In this column I want to talk about one person and one project at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. I know it is not one person who gets a $55 million project done, but one person needs to provide ...
Adam Bryant of The New York Times interviewed Lazlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations at Google, in June 2013 about what he looks for in applicants. What Bryant learned might surpri ...
“Target taps outsider as CEO for needed shakeup” was the headline in a fairly recent story in the Star News. The story interested me on a number of levels. My firm, EASI Consult, is i ...
I don’t want to get all academic on you, but the definition of organizational culture is the combination of norms, policies, procedures, attitudes and feelings that together define how a company ...
If you Google “leadership” there are more than 1.7 million references. I think it is fair to say that the topic has been given a fair amount of attention. Why is the topic so intriguing an ...
In my work, I’ve been asked before to explain what “on boarding” is and how it can help a company be seen as a desirable place to work. First, let me tell you about a study I read se ...
There are three areas that you as the job candidate can focus on to increase the likelihood of an interview going well. Those things are: Preparation Practice Follow up Preparation Obtai ...
Have you ever had a bad boss? If this doesn’t apply to you, then there’s no need to read the rest of this column. … Interesting, you’re still reading. Over the course of ...
One could spend a lot of time doing a post-mortem on why Gary Miller decided to pursue other opportunities and ultimately left UNCW. At the end of the day, it is more important to figure out what will ...
Having been in the working world for many years I have been through a number of economic cycles. They are pretty predictable. The economy starts to grow and businesses expand and then the econom ...
This is the third column is a series I have written in response to a Conference Board Study that identified human capital as the biggest challenges for CEOs in 2014. The study went on to detail three ...
In a recent column, I wrote about my reaction to a recent Conference Board Study that cited human capital as the biggest challenge for CEOs in 2014. The article went on to cite three particularly chal ...
It is refreshing to finally hear human capital cited at the No. 1 challenge in 2014 based on The Conference Board’s global survey of more than 1,000 corporate leaders. These leaders further desc ...
So, who is the best interviewer in the Port City? What is the secret of his or her success? Sound the buzzer. If you said “gut feel” or any variation of that, you’re wrong. And I&rsq ...
Succession Planning. Blood is thicker than water. You can pick your friends but you can’t pick your family. That is true unless your family also owns a business that employs your sisters, bro ...
I recently went to Raleigh to attend the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce’s breakfast series called C-Suite Perspectives. The organization typically enlists a CEO to talk about his or her vie ...
Wikipedia defines networking as, “A socioeconomic business activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a t ...
This time of year, companies whose fiscal years are aligned with the calendar year begin to close their books. Armed with new budgets, companies need a way to communicate salary increases. For many co ...
When it comes to the current environment for manufacturing jobs in Wilmington, the answer to the “half-full, half-empty” question is decidedly mixed. Yes, there are several manufacturing o ...
Everyone I know has had more than their fill of the implications of the new law known affectionately as Obamacare. But an aspect of the new law that you may not be aware of is the Hospital Consumer As ...
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