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Many organizations have addressed the near-term succession challenges by hiring retired employees as consultants, or implemented policies such as flex hours, telecommuting, part time and job sharing. While these tactics help bridge the gap, they do not represent a solid strategic approach to fulfilling the organization’s long-term talent needs. Download the white paper today and learn how to to strategically assess the talent pool at every level of your organization.

Employers increasingly rely on assessments to acquire, develop and promote the best talent. With this trend has come significant confusion about how to choose assessments and how to best use them to obtain a competitive advantage. This white paper explains the different types of assessments and their purposes, while answering six key questions that must be considered when evaluating pre-hire and developmental assessments.

Recent surveys have shown that companies list “finding and keeping quality workers” as their biggest problem. The solution? Performance coaching. There may be no other skill set as paramount to manager or supervisor success as coaching skills. This Ebook by The Impact Achievement Group provides insight into the critical elements that make up an effective coaching process.

What truly constitutes a performance-driven culture? How does an organization measure—and review—performance in a way that truly benefits the company as well as its employees? The answers to these questions are the difference between an average and an extraordinary business. Authors and experts Rick Tate and Julie White, Ph.D., senior managing partners at Impact Achievement Group, and Dan Harrison, Ph.D. of Harrison Assessments International, have contributed to this Ebook, which provides best practices in performance management and leadership development. These articles offer sound advice based on years of on-the-ground experience coupled with current, proprietary research findings.

Representing the largest pool of management talent in most companies, supervisors prove critical to an organization’s success. Companies that develop superior leaders can execute more effectively than their competition. The chapters of this Ebook are derived from The Supervisory Basics Training Series, which provides a framework for working effectively in a supervisory or management position.

While performance review serves an important business purpose, the reality of the review experience—for both managers and employees—delivers disappointing results. That disappointment can spell disaster for your organization. The latest article from Impact Achievement Group, “The Dark Side of Performance Reviews – Why People Hate Them and Why They Fail,” explains 1) what the essential purpose of a performance review process is, 2) how to establish a fair and consistent process so that employees can know where they stand, and 3) how to evaluate results rather than activity and effort.