ECI’s Foundation Study v. Google’s Project Oxygen to Identify High Performers

One of our associates passed along this New York Times article about Google’s Project Oxygen to me earlier this week.  Google wanted to identify the factors associated with high performing managers.   Being the experts they are with data analysis, they sliced and diced all of their performance review ratings and other anecdotal information to identify [...]

The Stay Survey

I just saw a great presentation the other day on how to increase employee engagement and productivity.  One points that I took away from this presentation was the idea of a “Stay Interview”.  Most companies have an exit interview process that tries to understand why an employee is leaving the company.  I know many companies [...]

How Culture Impacts Merger and Acquisition

ECI has helped companies make a smooth transition after merger and acquision.  Our studies have shown that the number one reason merger or acquisions fail is because the culture is never fully integrated.  Company leaders often think that because they have introduced the cultural expectations to the new company members, that is sufficient for a [...]

Identifying the Metrics Related to Success

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 [...]

Changing World of Competency Models

We’ve been preparing competency models for our clients for over 17 years.  As you recall, we define competency as skills, knowledge and abilities applied for a specific outcome.  Only when we understand what the real outcomes of performance are can we build complete models that really help people perform their best. Lately, we have been [...]

How Do You Build A Competency System? continued….

A critical aspect of constructing a Competency System is whether you have someone on site who can champion for the cause.  If your company is smaller in size, and you have an HR professional who understands the rudiments of competency construction, you may be able to create the system yourself with a bit of help [...]

How Do You Build a Competency System?

A lot of the people who visit our website want to know the answer to the question “How do you build a competency system?”  And of course the answer is, “It depends.”  The things that determine how to approach building a system are really pretty simple: How many people are in your organization?     100 or less, 200 [...]

What is my company’s culture and why does it matter?

The culture that exists within a company is something that many people may not pay attention to on a day to day basis.  However, it is an element of your organization that should not be overlooked.  It is an element that can make all of the difference when introducing your company to a potential hire.  [...]

Part 2: Devising Selection Standards for Hiring New Staff

Adverse impact occurs where there is a statistically significant difference between selection, promotional, or compensation levels between members of a protected class and an appropriate comparison group.[1] However, according to the 1991 Civil Rights Act, this difference only amounts to discrimination if the tools used to make the business decision are invalid and not consistent [...]

Part I: How To Increase The Quality of Your New Hires

Companies are increasingly seeking out ways to enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of their hiring and promotional processes.  They are exploring the use of a variety of tests and measures to gather the information they need to make better decisions.  They look to tests to help them increase objectivity within their processes and to get [...]