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About Creative Organizational Design
Creative Organizational Design was established in 1979 to provide customized training services. As part of these services, we offered psychological and other kinds of skill and aptitude assessment tools. Soon our clients began asking us to provide other types of employee testing tools. Our expertise enabled us to help our clients select the most appropriate tools for their requirements.
Our business model changed and, over the past 40 years, we have become Canada’s largest independent supplier of pre-screening assessment tools and solutions for assessing current employees’ readiness for promotion and for developing leaders and teams.
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70% Of Employers State That Communication Is The Most Desirable Skill For Potential Recruits
A 2024 report on “Communication in the Workplace Statistics 2024” indicates clearly that effective communication skills are critical skills for job success. One might think that that’s a bit of a no-brainer. However, this topic comes up again, and again, in workplace surveys and articles about career success, and has done for years. Just one example is Debra Hamilton’s Top 10 Email Blunders That Cost Companies Money from fifteen years ago in 2009.
The statistics show that 86% of employees and executives cite the lack of effective collaboration and communication as the main causes of workplace failures. Lack of effective communication creates big problems for everyone in many organizations. According to the Workplace Statistics 2024 report, 70% of people surveyed believe that wasted time is one of the worst consequences of poor communication, and 81% of global recruiters believe that cross-cultural competence is the most important communication skill job candidates should have, followed by multilingualism (77%), and active listening (75%).
Relying On AI For Hiring May Be Doing You A Disservice
There’s no silver bullet, one-size-fits-all solution, nor any guarantees when it comes to the hiring processes. It’s a mixed bag of ‘best practices’, trial and error, and simply ‘what works best for us’. AI can absolutely be part of that process, but the human component cannot be removed from it.
Culture vs Competence – Which One’s Better?
CNBC recently ran an article about Mark Cuban and his February Master Class “Win Big in Business”. According to Cuban, there are “two things that matter the most [when it comes to hiring people]. Are they competent enough to do the job? And do they fit in the...
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