David Lahey

Predicting Success C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Make the right hires every time, with an analytical approach to talent
Predicting Success is a practical guide to finding the perfect member for your team. By applying the principles and tools of human analytics to the workplace, you ll avoid bad culture fits, mismatched skillsets, entitled workers, and other hiring missteps that drain the team of productivity and morale. This book provides guidance toward implementing tools like the Predictive Index®, behavior analytics, hiring assessments, and other practical resources to build your best team and achieve the best outcomes. Written by a human analytics specialist who applies these principles daily, this book is the manager s guide to aligning people with business strategy to find the exact person your team is missing.

An avalanche of research describes an evolving business landscape that will soon be populated by workers in jobs that don t fit. This is bad news for both the workers and the companies, as bad hires affect outcomes on the individual and organizational level, and can potentially hinder progress long after the situation has been rectified. Predicting Success is a guide to avoiding that by integrating analytical tools into the hiring process from the start.

Hire without the worry of mismatched expectations
Apply practical analytics tools to the hiring process
Build the right team and avoid disconnected or dissatisfied workers
Stop seeing candidates as "chances," and start seeing them as opportunities
Analytics has proved to be integral in the finance, tech, marketing, and banking industries, but when applied to talent acquisition, it can build the team that takes the company to the next level. If the future will be full of unhappy workers in underperforming companies, getting out from under that weight ahead of time would confer a major advantage. Predicting Success provides evidence-based strategies that help you find precisely the talent you need.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781118985977
• ISBN-10: 1118985974
• Artikelnr.: 41024635

Autorenporträt

DAVID LAHEY is the founder and CEO of Predictive Success, which helps firms align people with business strategy. In 2013, Predictive Success was awarded Profit Magazine's Profit 500 Award for the fastest-growing new companies.David's work has been featured in The Toronto Globe & Mail, Vancouver Provence, CBC Radio, Calgary Herald, Star Phoenix and Financial Post. He is also a frequently requested guest lecturer at top MBA programs.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1 HOWTO START 1 The Blame Game 2 The Office Paradigm, Revised 2 The
Awakening 4 The Cost of a Bad Hire 5 Why Things Fail 7 Group Therapy 8
CHAPTER 2 HOW TO BREAK ANALYSIS PARALYSIS 11 CHAPTER 3 HOW TO LEAD 19
Allowing the Employees to Be the Best Versions of Themselves 21 Third-Box
Thinking 23 Measure It, Then Do It 24 Using Behavior Analytics to Produce a
Better Leader 26 What Is Predictive Index(r) (PI(r))? 27 Effective Feedback
Is a Second Paycheck 31 Do as I Do 32 Everyone's a Leader 33 Cultivating
Principals 34 National Telcom Company Example 36 More Than Money 38
Self-Development Rules 39 Listening to the Results 40 The Leader as
Introvert 41 Using Workforce Analytics to Find Your Next Leader 43 CHAPTER
4 HOW TO FOLLOW 47 What the Birds Know 48 Following Types: People Styles
Meet the Facebook Crowd 49 The Hierarchy-Free Ideal 50 Better Together 52
Building Smarter Teams 54 Putting Teams to the Test 55 Talk About It 56
CHAPTER 5 HOW TO DECIDE 59 Timing Is Everything 60 Facing the Unknowns 60
Brain Science's Decision-Making Play 61 Instinct Favors Intricacy 63
Decision-Making, Deconstructed 65 Evidence Beats Opinion 67 Decision-Making
Tactics 68 Making a Decision with Every Tool Engaged 69 Decision by Job
Interview: Insufficient 69 Why Cognition Matters 71 PLI(r): For More Than
Hiring 72 CHAPTER 6 HOW TO PERSUADE 75 The Role of the Subconscious 76
Speaking from the Corps 77 Emulating Emo 77 The Stanford Prison Experiment
79 Asking for More 80 The Forbes List 82 CHAPTER 7 HOW TO COMMUNICATE 89
Communication Rules 90 Do Unto Others 91 Case Study: Communication at
Stanley Manufacturing, Toronto, Canada 92 Simplicity above All 93 Body
Language Speaks Volumes 94 Communicating with Your Ears 95 Building Trust
through Communication 96 Communication Tactics 99 Communications Leader,
Lead Thyself 99 Barriers to Communication 101 Communication Tips 102
CHAPTER 8 HOW TO ASSESS 105 Case Study: The Big Brothers Big Sisters(r)
Organization 106 The Science of Human Resources 107 United States
Government (EEOC) "Rules of the Road" for Using Testing 107 Behavioral
Assessments 109 Putting Behavior Analysis on Ice 111 Selling Apple Pie to
Americans 113 Motivation and Human Behavior 114 Asking Questions:
Behavioral Surveys 116 Business Applications of Behavioral Science 117
Behavioral Assessments in Reverse 120 An Assessment of Behavioral
Assessments 121 Picking a Behavioral Assessment Approach 123 The
Productivity Ambition Matrix 124 CHAPTER 9 HOWTO ENGAGE 127 The Engagement
Anxiety 127 Defining the Engaged Employee 128 Why Is Engagement Important?
129 Employee Engagement: A How-To 131 The Role Behavior Analyses Have to
Play 135 Share the Wealth 136 The Microsoft Example 138 Employee Engagement
in Down Times 139 CHAPTER 10 HOW TO RESOLVE 143 The Cost of Conflict 144
Conflict Is "Good" 145 The Psychology of Conflict 147 Laughter's Long
Legacy 148 Think About It 149 The Predictive Index(r), Explained 150 The
ISAT(TM)/SSAT(TM), Revealed 152 On-Ice Application 154 The Predictive
Index(r) and the Social Profit World 155 Transitioning from Boredom to the
Top 156 Leadership Development and Deconflicting 157 Conflict 101 158
Stories of Success 159 Making the Perfect Pick 162 CONCLUSION: HOW TO
FINISH 163 Intergenerational Management 164 Identifying Your Pink Dolphins
166 EQ: The Missing Link in Employee Testing 167 Necessary Endings 169
INDEX 173