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For many businesses, workplace innovation is becoming increasingly important. Generating ideas, finding new markets, taking a different perspective all help to differentiate products and services for businesses. Originality and innovation are phenomena whereby something new and valuable is formed. The created products may be intangible (like an idea, a theory, or an artistic inspiration) or tangible (like an invention, a new service, or a new business).

Companies with high employee turnover generally have lower service quality, lower productivity and lower profitability. If not managed effectively, turnover can become a vicious circle that eventually can lead to company failure. Retaining employees is the foundation of every company’s success.

Hiring the right person for your company is a complex process.  However, there are a few basic competencies or traits that never change. These are the basics of a good Candidate Assessment Strategy USA.

Employers can effectively use pre-employment assessments USA to measure job-relevant skills and abilities of applicants. These talent assessment tools can help employers identify and select high performers which will improve an organization’s overall performance. Here are several principles to make effective use of pre-employment assessments USA:

Your workforce is made up of diverse and distinct personalities. A competent manager recognizes these differences in each employee and doesn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach. DISC is a behavior assessment tool that measures four different behavioral or work styles: dominance, influence, submission, and compliance. With each of the four behavioral styles, there is a different way to communicate and delegate tasks, compliment, correct, motivate and coach each employee.

Every year businesses fail because they don’t have competent managers. The full cost of hiring an incompetent manager includes reduced productivity, added training costs, lost sales, increased turnover and the cost of their replacement. Every company needs managers that can capitalize on the opportunities that the future brings. Competent managers create and articulate the vision and mission. They organize operations so that the vision is attainable. They inspire their workforces. They develop tomorrow’s leaders for the company.

If a business wants to grow it has to hire and retain the best talent available in the marketplace. The quality of a company’s workforce is what sustains its competitive advantages. When seeking to outperform competitors many businesses focus on their talent assessment strategy. Talent assessments are designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of your current employees and your potential hires. Talent assessment strategy drives positive, measurable outcomes. Talent assessments have been proven to improve efficiency, morale, retention, customer service, and sales. All of the

A hiring benchmark is a standard or point of reference against which your candidates can be compared or assessed. Benchmarking creates a profile of the ideal candidate for your open position. Then, you can assess candidates against that profile. An ideal candidate profile functions like a blueprint, helping hiring managers to map out the desired personality traits and attributes for a specific open position. Businesses compete for talent by filling their talent pipeline with quality candidates.

Recruiting sales talent can be expensive, especially if you end up with a bad sales hire. We define a bad sales hire as - a salesperson who consistently ranks in the bottom 20% for three months after the ramp-up period. It’s not only that the company has wasted the invested salary in a salesperson who didn’t work out, but there are other expenses created — replacement recruitment and hiring costs, replacement training costs, lost productivity, lost business, and more. So, how much did that bad hire really cost you? Current estimates are 50% to 75% of the annual compensation.

The success of your call center depends on your talent assessment and management strategies. If your call center is experiencing high turnover (20% or higher) you need to ask what can we do differently?

Employers often hire candidates who interview great but don’t work out. Many of these employers still rely on Gut Instinct rather than a proven process to determine Job Fit. In order to make a successful hire you need to understand the competencies and personal characteristics that will predict job success. Job Fit determines the qualities and characteristics employers need to look for when hiring. Here is how you complete a Job Fit Analysis with Prevue Assessment.

Your Candidate Assessment Strategy USA for hiring sales talent is based on the sales outcomes you measure. You first have to identify the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for measuring Sales Performance. These KPIs are recorded monthly for each Salesperson and then aggregated monthly for the Sales Team.

Effective managers build trust, inspire employees and motivate teams to achieve business goals. Ineffective managers create resentment resulting in employee turnover. Manager effectiveness can be measured. Evaluating your managers’ performance can have a big impact on the overall engagement of your employees and success of your company. Open, honest feedback from employees will empower your managers to truly inspire their teams.

Thinking critically is the primary competency of every manager. Almost all of a manager’s work falls into one of three areas: accomplishing tasks and goals, working with and through others, and adapting managerial style and behaviors. Justin Menkes identified seventeen skills that define Executive Intelligence (What All Great Leaders Have – 2005).