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Two studies say agreeable leaders perform better. A third says the same trait costs them a decade of raises. Both are true, and the gap between them is where hospital leadership lives.

Every fund can price market risk to the basis point, but pricing the risk of a poor PM hire is harder and often undervalued. Here are three things selection science says about the PM seat that most interview processes still miss.

We have changed and adapted how we manage test integrity a lot over the past 20 years. Has your assessment done the same? In my first ten years doing this work, we caught one cheater. Today, 83% of candidates say they would use AI on an assessment if they thought no one could tell. Most … Read More

Every GM we have assessed or encountered, both in a large hotel chain or a mid-sized resort chain, started at the lowest level of the organization. One started cleaning rooms, and another at the front desk. They throw around the term “lifers” to describe themselves. Their education has been through hard knocks. Late nights, low … Read More

Twelve years of psychometric data on hospital leadership turns up a few things that don’t match the usual playbook. Psynet Group works with several health care firms, including a Fortune 500 hospital chain. Why won’t our largest health care client hire someone without a Psybil Report? Because getting the right hire mattered from the start; … Read More

We informed a client that a background check showed their employee had an extensive criminal record and substantial debt, neither of which she disclosed. This person had access to the company’s funds and was in a position to take kickbacks. Part of our human capital due diligence includes an assessment, and this individual scored a … Read More

Your sales team is carrying hidden liabilities.The assessment data is the audit. Most CROs can recite their pipeline number cold. Far fewer can tell you which reps are performing at the ceiling of their potential and which were never built for the role in the first place. There’s a quiet reckoning happening in enterprise sales. … Read More

I was in my 20s when I had my first experience with talent assessment for selection. I was introduced to it by my friend and supervisor, Monte Amundson. He was my boss in a firm dedicated to training and placing leaders in non-profit and religious institutions. During my brief tenure in recruiting leaders for the … Read More