We are working on several projects right now to help clients identify which metrics relate directly to success, which factors can predict whether an individual might have problems on-boarding successfully, and whether the demonstration of the factors described within competency models in fact are statistically related to higher performance. All of this work we find very interesting, since it offers the opportunity to prove that it is possible to measure the relationship between key performance outcomes and particular behaviors, while in other cases, we think there are relationships, but in fact there are not. Read more…
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Handling Problem Workers
January 5th, 2009 by The ECI Team
My sister was an executive vice president in banking. She decided to retire when she saw the sub-prime market starting to go crazy and realized that the way she believed a book of mortgages should be developed and managed differed substantially from others in the industry. Too bad she didn’t stick it out. While my sister is a very strong person and does have a strong sense of justice, I doubt that she would have been able to overcome her high level of correctness to shame the industry into taking the higher road. Nonetheless, she was a very effective leader in her own right and we often discussed how she was managing some of the issues she faced in overseeing her team. Read more…
Maximizing Productivity in a Downturn Market
October 8th, 2008 by The ECI Team
When people find themselves in a changing environment, their primary concern is “what will happen to me either at home or in my job at work?” High performers, when they are feeling unsure, generally take action to seek a better position in an environment which they perceive as more stable. Lower performers may be more fatalistic in their response and may find themselves immobilized by the threat of change. In our work with companies downsizing or reorganizing, without intervention by leadership, the top performers are the first volunteers to leave, while the less successful individuals will remain and enable the company to make the decisions for them. Read more…
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