by Mississauga Board of Trade | Nov 8, 2016 | Hiring, Human Resources
The Gallup Organization inadvertently kicked off a consulting Gold Rush back in the mid-1990’s when they set out to better understand what exactly it was that ‘Great Managers’ do differently than their peers. The research and their landmark findings are well...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Oct 10, 2016 | Hiring, Human Resources
By Jan van der Hoop The odds are that Amazon knows more about your Significant Other’s preferences than you do. That doesn’t make you inattentive, regardless what he or she might say; it makes you human. Algorithms and machine learning (where computers observe your...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Sep 8, 2016 | Hiring, Human Resources, Uncategorized
By Jan van der Hoop We spend a lot of time answering questions from business leaders about how to hire the very best people for their business. Everybody wants the very best talent money can buy (in a perfect world they would be both talented and low-maintenance), and...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Aug 11, 2016 | Hiring, Human Resources, Uncategorized
By Jan van der Hoop If you ran a business with an 80% defect rate in a core product, what would you do? Truth is, that’s likely the defect rate in your company’s hiring decisions. If your organization is normal, your hit rate – unqualified success for both the...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Jul 12, 2016 | Best practices, Business Learning, Hiring, Human Resources
By Jan van der Hoop It’s funny how work can take you in some unexpected directions, if you’re open to it. Last summer, I reached out to Joe Dale, the Executive Director of the Ontario Disabilities Employment Network. We’d originally been introduced years previously,...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Jun 7, 2016 | Hiring, Human Resources
By Jan van der Hoop I’m not a big fan of baseball, but in a fit of boredom and curiosity to see what my business partner keeps going on (and on) about, I finally relented and streamed Moneyball last week. What surprised me is that I’ve seen the very same heated,...
