Assessment Articles

1). Preventing Future Violence By : Kathryn Seifert
Understanding the development of violence allows us to not only predict, but prevent future acts of violence. Services must be provided as early in the cycle as possible.
Article Related to: violence, youth violence, prevention, treatment, risk, assessment, offending, care, savry, pcl-yv

2). Psycho Babble - Psychometric (Personality) Assessment Testing By : Kim Jones
As every one of Britain’s 100 largest companies and some 80% of all the rest, use some sort of personality test on prospective employees, we thought it would be a good idea to have a look at the subject.
Article Related to: psychometric, personality, assessment, testing, test

3). How To Avoid Risky Business Plans By : David Gass
Explains strategies used to avoid risk. This is done with a sound business plan.
Article Related to: risk, assessment, small business, credit, business plan, fixed costs, product, financial, loans, tax

4). How Compatible Are You And Your Partner? By : Kim Olver
What are the things you argue about? Where are the disagreements? The small resentments? Where do you have to give in to get along? Do you argue over money? Are you fighting over sex? Do you have different ideas about how much time you should spend together and apart? Do you squabble over extended family and friends? Is one of you daring and reckless,.
Article Related to: relationships, choice theory, love, belonging, power, needs, survival, assessment, satisfaction

5). Skilled Migration to Australia By : Darrell Todd
As part of the Australian government's initiative to encourage economic growth and manage shortages in skilled labour supply issues in the Australian economy, over 45,000 places have been made available under the General Skilled Migration Stream this year. **Basic Requirements** To gain entry under the skilled migration programme, applicants should.
Article Related to: migration, australia, migrate, move to, moving, visa, skilled, assessment

6). Assessing the Future Risk of Youth Violence By : Kathryn Seifert
It is essential that youth at risk for future violence receive the appropriate interventions to prevent aggression. Risk assessment tools can aid in this process.
Article Related to: violence, youth violence, prevention, treatment, risk, assessment, offending, care, savry, pcl-yv

7). Selecting Salespeople From Outside Your Industry By : Derrick Moe
There is an old saying in the computer world that dates back to the days of mainframes and terminals. These early computers cost tens of thousands of dollars and there were a handful of competitors in that market space. The dominant player was IBM who was often the highest priced option even though the competitive solutions were fairly similar. IBM’s market-leading position created a security blanket for buyers that developed into a common phrase – “Nobody was ever fired for choosing IBM.
Article Related to: sales recruiting, hiring, sales hiring, salespeople, recruiting, assessment, select metrix

8). Self Care and the Truth By : Jennifer Louden
How the mind's interpretations of events affect the body.
Article Related to: mind, body, assessment, mood, truth

9). Hiring Adjustments For Generations X And Y By : Derrick Moe
Work-life balance. Flexible work hours. Corporate mission. What is the point of focusing on these non-traditional hiring topics? Two letters – X and Y. Generation X (born between 1963 and 1980) and Generation Y (born after 1980) are establishing a more prominent position within the employment landscape as the Baby Boomers prepare to exit the workforce.
Article Related to: sales recruiting, hiring, sales hiring, salespeople, recruiting, assessment, select metrix

10). OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals By : Sandra Noble
How can industry prevent 6,000 fatalities and 4 million accidents? These were the shocking workplace statistics for 2005. OSHA and its Process Safety Management (PSM) program strive to improve upon these statistics.
Article Related to: osha, process, safety, management, psm, inspection, audit, assessment, occupational, health, niosh, hazardous

11). Get Your Performance Appraisal Discussions Off to a Good Start Part 1 By : dave4
Too often, participants in performance appraisal meetings seem awkward and uncomfortable. To some extent, that’s unavoidable — it’s always a bit awkward for one person to deliver a formal assessment of the quality of work performed by another. But following some simple suggestions can eliminate a lot of the awkwardness in performance appraisal meetings.
Article Related to: performance, employee, management, evaluation, review, assessment, online, software

12). Employee Performance Reviews - Dealing With Disagreements By : dave4
What do you do when an employee disagrees with something you’ve written on their performance review? How can you prepare for this and deal with it effectively? Start by listening to figure out the source of the disagreement. Is it an issue of fact (you wrote that the employee received a customer satisfaction score of 79 but the employee says that his.
Article Related to: performance, employee, management, evaluation, review, assessment, online, software

13). Training and Coaching for Inside Sales and Customer Service Staffs is Vital to Business Growth By : Melissa Vokoun
Emerging and Small Business Owners may not recognize that the investment of employee training in the Inside Sales and Customer Service areas of the company can be the difference between having a good year and great year. The difference in greater revenues and more customer satisfaction after the proper employee assessment, training and coaching is an incremental investment into growing your business.
Article Related to: insidesales, inside sales, customer service, training, coaching, employee training, assessment

14). Home Based Business Ideas Assessment By : elias georgi
There are literally thousands of home based business ideas that consumers can consider as a hobby or even as a full fledged business opportunity. But which one really works...
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15). Social Skills Assessment - the Key to a Happier Social Life By : Peter Murphy
One way of assessing your social skills is to come up with a list of activities that are believed to be useful in gaining social acceptance.
Article Related to: social, skills, assessment, key, happier, social, life

16). Assessment & Development Centers in Employee Selection & Development By : Graham Tyler
Defines assessment and development centers and their utility and explains why they are expensive. Argues that ultimately they are a good return on investment provided they are designed and run by competent professionals.
Article Related to: assessment center, development center, employee appraisal, assessment

17). No Time For Health And Safety By : Shaun Parker
A look at what can happen if Health and Safety Training are ignored even when ready available on-line
Article Related to: health, safety, training, risk, assessment