Test Your Sales Success QuotientEngineersEngineers can want to improve our weaknesses, too, can't we?(This is by far the best blog on BNet, by the way...)
Zappos Tells New Employees: Please Go AwayCaution on treating testing as the answerWhile testing is a highly valid way of predicting performance on the job, there are two things of concern in this post. First, there is no such thing as a behavioural "trait". A trait is an enduring hereditary...
This week, Slate is running a series of articles about that omnipresent elephant in the cubicle: procrastination. While most of the articles aren't exactly How-Not-To Guides, I did learn a little bit from skimming through a few of them. Emily Yoffe's piece taught me that procrastination is a learned trait,...
As the world becomes more and more connected, you're going to need to begin investing in new media. And looking for a new media guru is worlds different than finding an accountant or a sales representative, for example. It seems that the foam rising to the top is comprised of...
Argentina is to track corn grown from a recently approved transgenic bundled trait to avoid shipping that type of grain to the European Union, according to a resolution published in the government's official bulletin on September 24 and reported by All-AbArgentina is to track corn grown from a recently approved...
There are a lot of career assessment tests available online. Find the time to take one. The test gives you a lot of insights about your core competencies and work preferences. It's actually quite difficult to see yourself as others do. It would be to your advantage to ask friends...
In this paper, a leadership model is presented, with which to investigate the relationship of trait emotional intelligence trait EI, leadership self-efficacy and leader's task self-efficacy with collective task efficacy and group performance. The sample was made up of 217 undergraduate students, randomly assigned to work teams of 1 leader...
Can psych evaluations pick out long-term winners from losers in executive recruiting? Professors from Harvard and the University of Toronto -- who have spent years studying studied ways to evaluate intangible but crucial traitsĀ -- believe they've devised a method that doesn't just size up smarts and skills, but can accurately...
Of the few disparities that seem to exist in the project management field nowadays, one of the biggest and more elusive seems to be leadership. All project managers are not automatically great leaders because they took a few courses in critical path schedules, resource planning or objective setting. There isn't...
Women have learned to think and speak in a more linear way in order to compete effectively in the business world, Andrea Learned writes in a recent Huffington Post blog entry, but maybe it's time for men to start adopting some "female" traits, such as multitasking, listening skills, emotional emphathy,...
Emotional intelligence EI is not a single construct, but rather several constructs that measure different individual traits or abilities. As research on EI has progressed, many researchers have identified two distinct models of EI: ability EI and trait EI. This distinction is important to the discussion of EI because trait...
Of all the emotions you'll go through during the course of a job search, one of the most difficult to preserve is optimism. And yet this is by far the most valuable personality trait you can harness when looking for a new job. This trait is so valuable that it's...
It's very difficult to lead when people are not really truly participating in the decision. You won't be able to attract and retain great people if they don't feel like they are part of the authorship of the strategy and the authorship of the really critical issues. If you don't...
The poor delegater is the person who is uncomfortable, either because they are more comfortable working at a level lower or they do not like to lose control of any part of a decision. This trait is caused by insecurity and is a common symptom with newly promoted people or...
Syngenta announces the United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA has approved the stacked combination of its new corn rootworm trait with its European corn borer trait. This approval allows Syngenta to launch ... Syngenta announces the United States Environmental...
DuPont, headquartered at Wilmington, Delaware, USA, announced on March 2 that its subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International located at Johnston Des Moines, Iowa, USA, had developed a new proprietary glyphosate, ALS-tolerant trait to be branded as OptimumDuPont, headquartered at Wilmington, Delaware, USA, announced on March 2 that its subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred...
DuPont announces that its new line of traits will be branded Optimum. Its first product will be the proprietary glyphosate, ALS-tolerant trait from its subsidiary, ... DuPont announces that its new line of traits will be branded Optimum. Its first product will be the...
This paper describes the personality traits that prevent us from achieving our goals and offers some important techniques for effective time management. There is a combination of aspects of the above traits in most of us, and we may even swing from one extreme to the other. Focus on the...
For organizations that believe an individual's ability to understand and manage emotions is critical to success on the job, measuring emotional intelligence may be the solution to identifying and developing successful employees, particularly leaders. Caliper's clients may already have the capability to measure emotional intelligence with the Caliper Profile. Based...
Assessment typically focuses on specific traits, or highly related clusters of traits, in the hope that participants can increase their understanding in areas of weakness and strength. This knowledge is intended to drive improved job performance through the development of new behaviors. This document reviews the purpose and design of...