Are you preparing your organization to compete and thrive in a VUCA world? Join my upcoming webinar on Wednesday, January 29th with Scott Erker of DDI to learn how you can lead this critical change. https://bit.ly/17FL6FZ

How Your Current College Approach Misses Top Talent  Unlike modern “experienced hire” recruiting, most college recruiting is neither scientific nor data-driven. A majority of college programs run on tradition, which means that they rely almost exclusively on students attending information sessions and then interviewing students through the campus career center.

By Evan Sinar, Ph.D. This is part 3 of a 4 part series on talent management in a VUCA world. [Dr John Sullivan andScott Erker, SVP at DDI’s  will be discussing more on this topic at the upcoming Webinar Wednesday November 20, 2013.  Register here: https://insight.ddiworld.com/webinar_agiletalentmanagement?source=sullivan ] An examination of executive assessment data …

[I will be discussing this topic with Scott Erker, SVP at DDI’s upcoming Webinar Wednesday January 29, 2014.  Register here: https://insight.ddiworld.com/webinar_agiletalentmanagement?source=sullivan ] You could accurately call me Dr. Speed because I love speed. I don’t mean the speed associated with fast cars, but instead, organizational speed. I really admire large organizations that …

This is part 2 of a 4 part series on talent management in a VUCA world. [Benchmark Yourself] Is Your Talent Strategy Built for a VUCA World? By Justin Yopp Want to see how your organization stacks up? DDI shows you how. https://blogs.ddiworld.com/tmi/2013/10/benchmark-yourself-is-your-talent-strategy-built-for-a-vuca-world.html   Part 1 How the Talent Management …

This is part 1 of a series on talent management in a VUCA world. By Dr. John Sullivan As a leader in talent management, you have undoubtedly already noticed over the last decade that there has been continuous volatility and change in the business, political, social, technological, and even the …

No matter where I travel around the world, people are extremely curious about the unique talent management practices of Silicon Valley. Over my 30+ years of working in the Valley, I have tried to distill the best talent management practices of great firms like Facebook,Google, and Apple (as well as the practices of …

Everyone knows that the average hiring process is less than perfect. In fact, most selection processes have high failure rates (i.e. even after months or even years of “assessment,” nearly 60 percent of the marriages in California end in divorce). So it shouldn’t be a surprise that as many as …

Upcoming Webinar presented by Dr. John Sullivan  If you’re frustrated with the mostly mediocre results produced by your current corporate employee referral program, it is important to realize that with only a handful of action steps you can dramatically improve both the quality and the volume of referrals. Referral Program …

  If you expect to win “The War to Keep Your Employees,” you must continually assure that the best offer that a top performing employee receives comes from inside your own firm. In order to assure that, management must periodically approach top talent and recruit them again (re-recruit) just as …