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Increasingly talent management processes and particularly talent development are being infused, if you will, with data from many sources:  external, pulse surveys, internal HRIS systems and still others.     With administrative processes, there are success stories emerging in using Machine Learning and AI.    For selection and development decision support, there are many attempts, promotions and "hype" but real results are not in evidence

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How do you identify potentially damaging behaviors that impact your job performance and personal productivity?  As a leader, how do you work with your team to improve their performance?   How do you identify a new understanding and a pathway to corrective action or at least improvement?  A validated behavioral assessment that  measures the full spectrum of suitability and emotional intelligence factors that underlie our behavior can have some great benefits.  It's a key element if you want to optimize your talent decision support capabilities.

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Augmented reality allows you to create an experience that immerses a learner or decision maker with visual "information" to be more effective.   How might you augment reality to support individual hiring decisions?   Augmented Reality typically combines data,  images, sound, movies, databases, social media, and the web and expands them digitally to facilitate more effective learning and decision-making.     A key issue with a hiring type decision is bias and many of these options, if not done carefully, would actually increase bias.   What's missing from many conventional and non-conventional hiring and selection processes is the job-relevant baseline information which allows you to compa

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The Harrison Assessment has, for many years, had a set of competency profiles for skill areas including negotiating,  innovativeness, working in unstructured environment, working in highly political/evasive environments,  providing direction and guidance, coaching etc...   Over the last couple years, we've added the capability to create competency frameworks and some of the world's leading companies have participated.

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Soft skills are critical across nearly all organizations- team behaviors,  management skills, communication capabilities, group problem solving, group decision making, personal effectiveness, emotional judgment, outlooks,  response and use of power,  conflict resolution and on and on.  With the increase in generational issues, diversity of cultures in organizations and pace of change, soft skills will increasingly get more important.

Organizations spend billions overall in training programs - some with good returns and others with little or none.  

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When we are under normal work stress i.e. trying to get things done, we act in accordance with our natural tendencies, underlying belief system and strong likes or dislikes.   So if you want to better deal with yourself, you need to surface these and make sure, in critical situations, that you deal with them more consciously and purposefully.

 

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When you are highly self aware AND you have the capability to quickly recognize scenarios where one of the ideal leadership roles fits,  your behaviors produce far more effective results…  There are several critical roles.  These are not totally mutually exclusive but the seven assist you in situationally shifting appropriately to best manage the scenario for the long term.

 

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"The U.S. Department of Labor has estimated the costs to replace an employee to be approximately 1/3 their annual salary; but when you start looking at the impact of hiring the wrong employee and having to replace them, some studies say 2.5 times annual earnings, some 4 times and some even higher." AGILEdge