AJ Cheponis
Has The Great Resignation Ended? Here’s what executives think.
Don’t wait for Forbes or Fast Company to declare The Great Resignation “over.” Don’t assume your organization is immune to burnout or...
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AJ Cheponis
- Apr 12
- 13 min
Attracting Top Talent In 2022
Today’s top talent may not want anything different from their predecessors—they’re just in a better position to get what they want.
AJ Cheponis
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
Identify your hiring priorities
Are you overwhelmed with the number of job openings in your organization? Do you feel like you need to fill all the jobs, right now? If...
AJ Cheponis
- Aug 20, 2020
- 3 min
How to roll out changes at your company
Before taking action, make sure your leadership team is aligned on a goal.
AJ Cheponis
- Aug 18, 2020
- 3 min
Company culture in the age of the cloud
Altering processes can cause disruption—especially in organizations where employees have maintained positions for more than 10 years.
AJ Cheponis
- Aug 3, 2020
- 3 min
Culture Fit Interview Questions
High-performing companies look beyond the briefcase. A resume reveals nothing about a person’s values, passions, interests & beliefs.
AJ Cheponis
- Jul 7, 2020
- 3 min
Learn new organizational techniques from exponential organizations
Did you know that Google has a team whose only job is to find a way to disrupt Google’s current business model? We can learn a lot from that
AJ Cheponis
- Jul 6, 2020
- 2 min
How to discuss DEI
Having honest DEI discussions is only the first step in a larger movement. Once you’ve solicited feedback, there’s a much tougher step ahead
AJ Cheponis
- Jun 4, 2020
- 3 min
Diversity and inclusion go hand-in-hand with talent optimization
For companies that fail to invest in D&I initiatives, the risks are great.
AJ Cheponis
- May 19, 2020
- 6 min
How to recruit and hire a top-performing sales manager
Quantitative data and technology provides hiring managers with the ability to leverage data to predict candidate job-fit.
AJ Cheponis
- May 11, 2020
- 4 min
Organizational resilience: what you need to know
To be resilient means to be able to return to your original shape after being bent, stretched, or pressed. “Resilience” is being used now...
AJ Cheponis
- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
6 reasons to use cognitive tests for hiring
Frank L. Schmidt found that cognitive ability explains, on average, a whopping 42% of job performance!
AJ Cheponis
- Apr 21, 2020
- 3 min
What makes a high-performing team?
Even if all your employees are good at what they do, they can’t achieve all that is possible if they aren’t empowered to work together.
AJ Cheponis
- Apr 9, 2020
- 3 min
Building a different kind of construction company with talent optimization
According to Casey, focusing on optimizing talent is paying off. With an attrition rate well below the industry average of 21.4%.
AJ Cheponis
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min
5 PI patterns that have the potential to be sales rock stars
Understanding the natural drives and needs of your people will allow you to identify the best behavioral style and patterns.
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- Mar 26, 2020
- 3 min
The CEOs guide to performance management
OKRs should serve as a guide. They are not a to-do list or project planning document.
AJ Cheponis
- Mar 13, 2020
- 5 min
How to implement a new process at work
There comes a point in every business when something happens that radically changes how the business operates: Leaders start to implement pr
AJ Cheponis
- Feb 24, 2020
- 5 min
7 stats on the importance of talent in health care
People are your most expensive and most valuable assets. Yet only 4 in 10 health care companies have a talent strategy.
AJ Cheponis
- Jan 23, 2020
- 4 min
4 pitfalls to avoid while developing your corporate identity
All companies think about and struggle with Corporate Identity.
AJ Cheponis
- Jan 2, 2020
- 7 min
How to hire a top-performing loan officer
Ambition alone doesn’t mean someone is a great candidate for the role. You need to hire the right people to meet your revenue goals.