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Don’t Lie To Me
October 11, 2010 by Gary Birshtein · Leave a Comment
Lie to Me is one of my favorite TV shows and among the few that I watch. Perhaps the similarity between some of my work – administering behavioral employment assessments and the science behind reading facial expressions in order to find the truth made me feel like I am more of a participant of the show than just an observer. In case you’ve never seen the show: Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and... [Read more ...]
Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover
October 7, 2010 by Gary Birshtein · Leave a Comment
Dear Colleagues, We’ve all heard the very common expression: “don’t judge a book by its cover”, it’s an allegorical phrase which means “don’t decide the value of something based on its appearance”. Let’s face it, we will never stop making those judgments simply because “the look” is the very first impression that we have of ether a person or an object. Perhaps... [Read more ...]
Executive Coaching Tip #3 Lesson for Leaders
September 20, 2010 by The Coach · Leave a Comment
New leaders often make the mistake of spending all of their time learning the processes of their new company, and get buried in the details of the nuts and bolts, processes and systems. If you want to really succeed and make an impact in a new leadership role, seek to understand the people and learn how to communicate with them and help them succeed. New leaders at Southwest Airlines are told, “Don’t... [Read more ...]
Fake Resume And Fake References Are Legal and Cheap To Buy
September 10, 2010 by Gary Birshtein · Leave a Comment
Hello Everyone, Please just watch this video. If you are a business owner or hiring manager, I hope this is going to be an eye opener. If hiring honest people is important to you, if you don’t like to feel like a fool while someone is wasting your time, then you need to take measures to eliminate what you didn’t want to begin with. Ok, just watch the video. Was that mind blowing... [Read more ...]
The ten most frequently mentioned issues that employees say companies do poorly
September 10, 2010 by Gary Birshtein · Leave a Comment
The 10 mentioned issues are: 1. Poor management—uncaring and unprofessional managers; overworking staff; no respect, not listening, putting people in wrong jobs; speed over quality; poor manager selection processes. 2. Lack of career growth and advancement opportunities: no perceivable career paths; not posting job openings or filling from within; favoritism or unfair promotions. 3. Poor communication:... [Read more ...]
Executive Coaching Tip #2
September 10, 2010 by The Coach · Leave a Comment
Don’t Seek to Find the Right Answer, Seek to Find the Right Question. One of the biggest challenges facing executives and managers in business today is having the time to do all of the tasks that they face. If you are that executive, like many of our clients, you probably find that you not only have a full workload, but a series of new tasks, and projects come in on a weekly if not daily... [Read more ...]
Interview Questions: Legal vs. Illegal
September 9, 2010 by Gary Birshtein · Leave a Comment
Hello everyone, We have been receiving many inquiries in regards to legality of some questions that are being asked during job interviews. In this post we will answer most of them. We recommend staying with a set of interview questions that have been generated by online assessment centre as a result of candidate’s taking the online assessment, this way the interviewer is asking questions... [Read more ...]
Executive Coaching Tip #1
September 8, 2010 by The Coach · Leave a Comment
When developing an effective 360 strategy, don’t forget to consider how the survey is positioned in the company. As we have seen many times in different organizations, the perception of the 360 system by employees is almost as important as the the survey itself. Make sure your leadership group understands and believes that the 360 feedback is for the purpose of learning and development of... [Read more ...]
Titanic vs. Icebreaker or Where Would You Rather Be When Hitting the Iceberg.
September 7, 2010 by Gary Birshtein · Leave a Comment
“The iceberg concept” has been quite common probably due to it’s visual simplicity: something harmless that is visible on the surface vs. something hidden under the water that can cause serious damage and lead to a disaster. Iceberg is a deception, false belief and/or a well hidden unwanted surprise. I often use “the iceberg concept” in conversation with business owners when we discussing... [Read more ...]
Professional Athlete vs. Regular Person That Goes to Work Everyday
September 6, 2010 by Gary Birshtein · Leave a Comment
Hello everyone, For quite sometime now I wanted to talk about differences and similarities between professional athletes and just everyday people that go to work to earn a living. Since I’ve had a chance to experience both worlds: as an athlete (for some of you that don’t know I’ve spent 10 years training and competing in fencing) and as an employee who “worked his way up”, I can speak from... [Read more ...]