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AJ Cheponis
Dec 28, 202213 min read
A Hiring Strategy That Works
Here are five ways to develop an effective hiring strategy and align your HR practices with your organization’s needs.
AJ Cheponis
Dec 21, 20223 min read
Employee development: Why it pays to invest in your people
Investing in the professional development of your team members can result in a wide range of advantages.
AJ Cheponis
Dec 7, 20222 min read
Self-awareness: The key to leadership success
Self-awareness is a mandatory trait for successful leaders. Yet, fostering self-awareness isn’t easy for some people.
AJ Cheponis
Sep 20, 20222 min read
Has The Great Resignation Ended? Here’s what executives think.
Don’t wait for Forbes or Fast Company to declare The Great Resignation “over.” Don’t assume your organization is immune to burnout or...
AJ Cheponis
Apr 12, 202213 min read
Attracting Top Talent In 2022
Today’s top talent may not want anything different from their predecessors—they’re just in a better position to get what they want.
AJ Cheponis
Nov 5, 20203 min read
Identify your hiring priorities
Are you overwhelmed with the number of job openings in your organization? Do you feel like you need to fill all the jobs, right now? If...
AJ Cheponis
Aug 20, 20203 min read
How to roll out changes at your company
Before taking action, make sure your leadership team is aligned on a goal.
AJ Cheponis
Aug 18, 20203 min read
Company culture in the age of the cloud
Altering processes can cause disruption—especially in organizations where employees have maintained positions for more than 10 years.
AJ Cheponis
Aug 3, 20203 min read
Culture Fit Interview Questions
High-performing companies look beyond the briefcase. A resume reveals nothing about a person’s values, passions, interests & beliefs.
AJ Cheponis
Jul 7, 20203 min read
Learn new organizational techniques from exponential organizations
Did you know that Google has a team whose only job is to find a way to disrupt Google’s current business model? We can learn a lot from that
AJ Cheponis
Jul 6, 20202 min read
How to discuss DEI
Having honest DEI discussions is only the first step in a larger movement. Once you’ve solicited feedback, there’s a much tougher step ahead
AJ Cheponis
Jun 4, 20203 min read
Diversity and inclusion go hand-in-hand with talent optimization
For companies that fail to invest in D&I initiatives, the risks are great.
AJ Cheponis
May 19, 20206 min read
How to recruit and hire a top-performing sales manager
Quantitative data and technology provides hiring managers with the ability to leverage data to predict candidate job-fit.
AJ Cheponis
May 11, 20204 min read
Organizational resilience: what you need to know
To be resilient means to be able to return to your original shape after being bent, stretched, or pressed. “Resilience” is being used now...
AJ Cheponis
Apr 28, 20203 min read
6 reasons to use cognitive tests for hiring
Frank L. Schmidt found that cognitive ability explains, on average, a whopping 42% of job performance!
AJ Cheponis
Apr 21, 20203 min read
What makes a high-performing team?
Even if all your employees are good at what they do, they can’t achieve all that is possible if they aren’t empowered to work together.
AJ Cheponis
Apr 9, 20203 min read
Building a different kind of construction company with talent optimization
According to Casey, focusing on optimizing talent is paying off. With an attrition rate well below the industry average of 21.4%.
AJ Cheponis
Apr 2, 20202 min read
5 PI patterns that have the potential to be sales rock stars
Understanding the natural drives and needs of your people will allow you to identify the best behavioral style and patterns.
solutions171
Mar 26, 20203 min read
The CEOs guide to performance management
OKRs should serve as a guide. They are not a to-do list or project planning document.
AJ Cheponis
Mar 13, 20205 min read
How to implement a new process at work
There comes a point in every business when something happens that radically changes how the business operates: Leaders start to implement pr
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