Performance Resources Online

John W. Howard, Ph.D.

President and Solutions Provider for Performance Resources, LLC

Dr. Howard received his doctorate in Social and Organizational Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1977. After two postgraduate years in a private research setting, he spent 22 years in management and ownership positions in a variety of businesses, including commercial real estate and development and recreational vehicle sales. He has extensive real-world experience in retail and wholesale finance, and has current clients in those fields, hospitality, manufacturing, title insurance, mortgage banking and customer service. In 2001, he entered a strategic business partnership with Profiles International, Inc, and now applies his education and experience to the use of scientifically validated assessment tools in business settings. He is the editor of Employer’s Advantage newsletter (a monthly newsletter with international circulation of over 100,000 businesses). He is published frequently in business magazines and newspapers. He is nationally recognized as an expert in the fields of human resource assessments, hiring systems, employee retention, and productivity increases.

We have seminars prepared on the following topics (and are always open to new directions):

• An Integrated Approach to Employee Retention
• Reducing Risk with Strategic Hiring Systems
• Selecting and Retaining Top Performers
• Developing Effective Managers
• Selecting and Developing Customer Service Teams
• Would You Like More Sales (and Who Wouldn’t)?
• Improving Interviews/Effective Performance Reviews
• Executive Team Training--Helping the Top People Work Together
• Building and Keeping a Winning Team
• Succession Planning—a Practical Approach to Managing Change
• Coaching for Performance Improvement
• Managing the Employee Life Cycle
• Identifying and Developing Future Leaders