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Charles Handler, Ph.D., PHR is president and founder of Rocket-Hire, a company that helps organization leverage online staffing and assessment tools to improve their hiring processes. Charles discusses different types of online assessments and what is required to effectively leverage these powerful but often poorly understood tools. He shares critical questions to ask when exploring the use of assessment tools and calls out common problems companies encounter when deploying personality measures, ability tests, and other forms of assessments to improve hiring effectiveness.

The most important decision a company ever makes about an employee is the decision to hire them. Learn how to leverage advanced scientific tools to increase the accuracy of this decision by listening to Charles Handler, this week on People Performance Radio.

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Bob Phillips is president of RW & Associates, a consulting company that leverages in-depth experience in finance and human resources to help companies achieve their business goals. With a history in human resource management dating back to the 1970s, Bob knows first-hand the challenges, difficulties and risks associated with leading organizations through massive restructurings and large scale layoffs that accompany recessions. Bob shares hard-earned lessons on what is required to successfully lead organizations through the difficult decisions that are often required in a down economy.

Whether this is your first experience with a major recession or if you remember the last widespread US recession that occurred in the 1980s, you will benefit from Bob’s thoughts and advice. Learn from someone with over 30 years of experience in 30 minutes by listening to Bob Phillips, this week on People Performance Radio.

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Mel Kleiman is the President and Founder of Humetrics, a company that helps organizations maximize the productivity of hourly workforces. Mel notes that hourly employees represent over 60% of the workforce in the United States yet receive surprisingly little attention from the talent management community in general. He calls attention to problems that result when companies view hourly employees as “temporary workers” even though these employees often represent the face of the company to the customer. Mel shares examples showing how companies can achieve much higher levels of retention and productivity simply by treating hourly employees with the similar levels of respect and attention commonly given to salaried employees.

If you manage hourly employees or work with organizations that have significant hourly workforces then you will benefit from listening to Mel’s observations, recommendations, and insights regarding hourly workforce management this week on People Performance Radio.

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Palle Elleman (LinkedIn profile) is Managing Director of the Great Place to Work Institute Europe, a company that helps organizations increase employee engagement and productivity through assessing and improving the quality of the workplace. This is the company that does the research underlying the famous “Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For” list along with similar studies in more than 30 other countries. Palle shares insights gained from his experience studying employee engagement and satisfaction across dozens of countries, drawing on more than 10 years of empirical research data to back up his observations. He emphasizes the universal role trust, pride, and camaraderie play in creating great workplaces. But he also notes that how these are established can vary across countries and discusses how their relative importance may change as the economy shifts.

If you are interested in building a great workplace no matter where or when you work, then you will want to listen to the insights shared by Palle Ellement, this week on People Performance Radio.