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How Multiple Intelligence Theory Reveals Opportunities for Personal Growth
Very few topics in our culture are as talked about with as little understanding as the issue of intelligence. Research shows that there may actually be nine types of intelligence, yet many types of intelligence are not supported by traditional education or celebrated by society.
How to Use 360 Assessment Tools
360 assessment tools are tools which are used to provide feedback to employees from their peers, their boss, their subordinates and themselves. This is utilized to help them improve their performance as well as to help recognize their accomplishment.

How To Evaluate Your People In 2 Simple Steps
The world is filled with all kinds of assessment tools and ways to analyze your current or potential employees and it can get overwhelming in a hurry. We're big on keeping things simple. Whether it be in life or in our business coaching practice when advising our clients. Basically you can evaluate your people in two broad categories: i) Skills, and ii) Attitude. It boils down to this: 1. If someone has the wrong skills AND they have a bad attitude, YOU SHOULD GET RID OF THEM IMMEDIATELY! 2. If someone has EITHER great skills or a great attitude, then should invest in improving the weak area (i.e. the skills or the attitude). 3. If someone has BOTH the skills and the attitude, promote them as fast as you can and include them in as many things in your organization as you can. This is someone you want in your organization.
Pre-Employment Profile Assessments
In today's market, finding and retaining the best, top-notch qualified individuals is a challenge for organizations of any size. With consistent and effective screening techniques, an organization can be assured they have hired the right person for the right job. One method in helping to select that right person is utilizing pre-employment assessment tools as part of the hiring process.

Sales Assessment Completion Times May Impact the Validity of the Assessments
How would you like to influence the development of our never-ending quest for improvement in our suite of world-class assessment tools? We constantly seek ways to expand our world-class insights, legendary accuracy, and real-world relevance. I just reviewed some new data that Jim Sasena, our Operations/Technical Director, dug up for me. This particular data set shows the percentage of Sales Candidate Assessments that are completed in a particular amount of time.

The Missing Link in Employee Assessments
Many companies use assessments to help make hiring and promotion decisions. Most assessments measure one of the following attributes of the candidate: * Specific job skills * Their motivation and career goals * Their personality and potential derailers (e.g. emotional intelligence) * Their likely fit with the organization’s culture One important area that is often not assessed is the candidate’s ability to use good judgment when making decisions based on complex or ambiguous information.

Building an Effective Talent Management System
Your organization probably manages its cash flow very carefully. After all, if you run out of cash you are in real trouble. But how about running out of talent? Does your organization manage its talent as carefully as its cash reserves? For most organizations the answer is “NO!” In these tough economic times attracting and retaining talented employees can be your key to competitive advantage.
Employee Testing and Assessments
According to the US Department of Labor all assessment tools used to make employment decisions are subject to professional and legal standards. For example, both the evaluation of a resume and the use of a highly standardized achievement test must comply with applicable laws. Assessment tools used solely for career exploration or counseling are usually not held to the same legal standards.
Coaching Action Plan for Sales Managers
Have your people set specific goals and connect with them regularly to maintain accountability. Always leave people with action steps, goals and deliverables.
Successful Recruiting System
How do you create a successful recruiting system for your company? Follow these 9 steps to find the right candidate.
How Balanced is YOUR Life?
Contrary to popular belief, balance is not an end point destination or a “thing” to be acquired. It is dynamic and always changing. Balance is more of a process not a place. A balanced life will look very different from one person to the next. The challenge is that most people have not given much thought to what a balanced life truly means to them.
Developing Passive Income
Passive income is crucial to growing your business in a way that is not dependent on your time input. Passive income is income that comes without you directly having to work for it on an ongoing basis.

Micro-Start Program: Local Technical Services Provider - Impact Study of the Zakoura Microcredit Program
Zakoura Micro-Crédit (ZMC) is the microfinance arm of the Zakoura Foundation, a national NGO devoted to increasing the quality of life of the most underprivileged Moroccans. ZMC provides credit and training to a target market of economically disadvantaged women using a solidarity group methodology. Between its founding in 1995 and September 2000, ZMC had disbursed 82,814 loans totaling 121,489,000 Dirhams. Its current repayment rate is 99.69%
Ideas On Global Learning
Sun Microsystems Inc., a leading provider of hardware, software and services for network computing solutions, has also developed a worldwide corporate learning system. In July 2000, Sun began the implementation of Sun Sigma, the company's adaptation of a worldwide business phenomenon called Six Sigma—a comprehensive program for building and sustaining business performance, success and leadership. The company used the Sun Enterprise Learning Platform to manage the training of 39,000 globally dispersed employees on Sun Sigma concepts.

Ideas On Global Learning
Sun Microsystems Inc., a leading provider of hardware, software and services for network computing solutions, has also developed a worldwide corporate learning system. In July 2000, Sun began the implementation of Sun Sigma, the company's adaptation of a worldwide business phenomenon called Six Sigma—a comprehensive program for building and sustaining business performance, success and leadership. The company used the Sun Enterprise Learning Platform to manage the training of 39,000 globally dispersed employees on Sun Sigma concepts.

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How to Use 360 Assessment Tools
360 assessment tools are tools which are used to provide feedback to employees from their peers, their boss, their subordinates and themselves. This is utilized to help them improve their performance as well as to help recognize their accomplishment.

Sales Performance: Choosing the Right Tools
What really helps a sales team to improve its performance? Out of the many disciplines, practices, processes and automated reporting tools, which ones should sales managers emphasize? Which tools are best? Which ones contribute most to desirable outcomes? As it turns out, the sales leaders we interviewed say it has less to do with the tools themselves, and more to do with the way those tools are selected, designed and implemented.

Employee Testing and Assessments
According to the US Department of Labor all assessment tools used to make employment decisions are subject to professional and legal standards. For example, both the evaluation of a resume and the use of a highly standardized achievement test must comply with applicable laws. Assessment tools used solely for career exploration or counseling are usually not held to the same legal standards.
The Top 13 Social Media Tools for Marketers
There are hundreds of different Social Media tools available, so it’s easy to get confused by them. But social media tools are a little easier to understand if you break them down into three categories - tools that help you network, tools that help you promote and tools that help you share content. Here’s a quick rundown of the top 13 Social Media tools for marketers. I’ve also included some brief tips on how to use each of them.
Pre-Employment Profile Assessments
In today's market, finding and retaining the best, top-notch qualified individuals is a challenge for organizations of any size. With consistent and effective screening techniques, an organization can be assured they have hired the right person for the right job. One method in helping to select that right person is utilizing pre-employment assessment tools as part of the hiring process.

Risk Assessment & Analysis Techniques
Risk assessment is an area of concern for all senior executives, but many mid-sized enterprises do not have the skills, processes, or tools to effectively mitigate risks. Instead of reactively ‘fire-fighting’ and dealing with issues as they arise, consider adding simple risk assessment & analysis exercises to your project planning process. Download & customize Demand Metric’s Risk Assessment Tool, Risk Mitigation Checklist, and Risk Analysis (Fishbone) Tool, and add to your skills arsenal.
New Tools Make it Easier to Book Sales Meetings
Tools are becoming a more important part of the sales infrastructure and there is no shortage of them. With so many sales tools available and such a big percentage of them being new, how do you know which ones to use and whether they are any good? Today I'll share two tools with you. One is brand new - the launch is today - and the other is fairly new - I found it a month ago. Both tools will help you get into new opportunities more quickly, more easily and with more fun!

How Four Variations Influence Sales and The Way People Make Decisions
When people comment on sales assessment tools, they generally d raw from one of the following arenas, their Opinions, Experiences, Gut Instinct, or Science. So which is right?

The 360 Degree Trap
Many organizations use a 360 Degree Assessment to measure the effectiveness of leaders. I have always been a proponent of this method as it provides vital information required to improve leadership and build trust. There is a potential trap in this method if the assessment is strongly linked to compensation.
10 Reasons - Don't Worry When Sales Candidates Don't Take the Test
We instruct clients to have their sales candidates take the Sales Candidate assessment very early in the recruiting process. It's the first step after the client receives their resumes. Clients carefully spell out exactly how the entire process will work and explain that the assessment is simply the first step. Recent statistics show that only 34% of the candidates are taking the assessment without additional prompts. Isn't that awful? Maybe - let's explore it further. We should consider that the following ten scenarios are all possible reasons why candidates fail to complete the assessment:
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