Predicting Success

Download or read book Predicting Success written by David Lahey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make the right hires every time, with an analytical approach totalent Predicting Success is a practical guide to finding theperfect member for your team. By applying the principles and toolsof human analytics to the workplace, you'll avoid bad culture fits,mismatched skillsets, entitled workers, and other hiring misstepsthat drain the team of productivity and morale. This book providesguidance toward implementing tools like the Predictive Index®,behavior analytics, hiring assessments, and other practicalresources to build your best team and achieve the best outcomes.Written by a human analytics specialist who applies theseprinciples daily, this book is the manager's guide to aligningpeople with business strategy to find the exact person your team ismissing. An avalanche of research describes an evolving businesslandscape that will soon be populated by workers in jobs that don'tfit. This is bad news for both the workers and the companies, asbad hires affect outcomes on the individual and organizationallevel, and can potentially hinder progress long after the situationhas been rectified. Predicting Success is a guide toavoiding that by integrating analytical tools into the hiringprocess 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 dissatisfiedworkers Stop seeing candidates as "chances," and start seeing them asopportunities Analytics has proved to be integral in the finance, tech,marketing, and banking industries, but when applied to talentacquisition, it can build the team that takes the company to thenext level. If the future will be full of unhappy workers inunderperforming companies, getting out from under that weight aheadof time would confer a major advantage. Predicting Successprovides evidence-based strategies that help you find precisely thetalent you need.