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Don't Waste Your Time: Avoid These Talent Strategy Pitfalls
A good talent strategy guides priorities and decision-making at all levels of your organization.

AJ Cheponis
Mar 9, 20233 min read


The Cost of Disagreement in Your Organization
The cost of misalignment on your organization's strategy can be high.

AJ Cheponis
Mar 7, 20232 min read


Unlocking Investment Potential: Why Leadership Fit Matters in Startup Success
One way to achieve this is by evaluating your executive team's leadership competencies to ensure that they match the company's needs.

AJ Cheponis
Mar 2, 20235 min read


A Hiring Strategy That Works
Here are five ways to develop an effective hiring strategy and align your HR practices with your organization’s needs.

AJ Cheponis
Dec 28, 202213 min read


Employee development: Why it pays to invest in your people
Investing in the professional development of your team members can result in a wide range of advantages.

AJ Cheponis
Dec 21, 20223 min read


Self-awareness: The key to leadership success
Self-awareness is a mandatory trait for successful leaders. Yet, fostering self-awareness isn’t easy for some people.

AJ Cheponis
Dec 7, 20222 min read


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...

AJ Cheponis
Sep 20, 20222 min read


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
Apr 12, 202213 min read


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
Nov 5, 20203 min read


How to roll out changes at your company
Before taking action, make sure your leadership team is aligned on a goal.

AJ Cheponis
Aug 20, 20203 min read


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 18, 20203 min read


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
Aug 3, 20203 min read


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 7, 20203 min read


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
Jul 6, 20202 min read


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
Jun 4, 20203 min read


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 19, 20206 min read


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
May 11, 20204 min read


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 28, 20203 min read


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 21, 20203 min read


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 9, 20203 min read
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