Employee Engagement
I’m the only remote employee on an in-person team
Managing a team that’s both in-person and remote introduces new challenges for teams. Learn how to navigate integrated team dynamics in this blog.
Shannon Howard · 11 min read
Business Leader
People Management
Holding employees accountable: where most leaders fail
Accountability is key to achieving business results, and yet many business leaders fail to hold employees accountable. Here’s how to get it right.
Shannon Howard · 6 min read
Company Culture
The secret weapon top CEOs use to solve business problems
Business problem solving is par for the course when you’re a CEO. Discover the discipline top CEOs use to solve their biggest challenges.
Erin Balsa · 7 min read
Company Culture
Create and develop organizational values that enhance company culture
There are many ways to drive employee productivity. One way is to create organizational values and in this guide, we explore exactly how to do that.
Connor Lewis · 10 min read
Company Culture
Aligning employees to business strategy
Aligning employees to business strategy is a critical component of talent optimization. Are your employees aligned? Read our blog to find out.
Lin Grensing-Pophal · 7 min read
People Management
First time manager tips: how to survive the role
Congratulations! You’ve earned a manager title. Your role is about to get a whole lot different. Here’s a quick survival guide.
Rich Weiss · 6 min read
Change Management
Preparing for disruption
Disruption is a gradual and insidious process—one that companies are increasingly learning to strategize around. Learn to embrace disruption in this blog.
Olivier Aries · 7 min read
Company Culture
This is why Tesla needs talent optimization.
Tesla is suffering from a variety of business challenges from executive turnover to layoffs. What’s the answer to its problems? Talent optimization.
Greg Barnett · 9 min read
Company Culture
What Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” taught me about values
Your mission, vision, and values are critical to successfully executing your business strategy. Are yours clear and inspiring action?
Dani Dawkins · 4 min read
Company Culture
Going to Mars: How mission, vision, and values can make or break your strategy
Your mission, vision, and values can make or break your business strategy. Here’s how to design mission, vision, and values that inspire.
Drew Fortin · 5 min read
Company Culture
Ignore your culture and it’s likely to go away.
Companies are recognizing the critical role that culture plays in hiring and retaining top talent. But corporate culture can’t be left to chance.
Lin Grensing-Pophal · 6 min read
Company Culture
3 signs you have poor organizational structure
Here are three signs you have poor organizational structure. If you see that your organizational design needs fixing, we can help.
Shannon Howard · 4 min read
People Management
How great leaders inspire followership
There is an interesting leadership conundrum that’s common in business settings: informal leaders often have many loyal followers while formal leaders may have few—maybe none! Why? Because leadership isn’t something that can be simply bestowed upon someone by an organization. It’s something that is earned. “The language used for effective followership is ‘exemplary followership,’ coined…
Lin Grensing-Pophal · 5 min read
Hiring
20 management skills for talent optimizers
As a talent optimizer, you need to master diverse leadership and management skills. You might be naturally adept at some of the following skills—but developing competency in others will force you to stretch beyond your comfort level to close gaps. While it won’t be easy, doing that important work will set you up to be…
Erin Balsa · 12 min read
Hiring
This is what makes a great accountant extra successful
There are certain behavioral traits that are common to all great accountants, whether the person is an individual tax professional or a CFO of a multibillion-dollar company. Great accountants are detail-oriented, of course, or “high D” in Predictive Index speak. They must be thorough and precise—and comfortable living within rules and guidelines, thank you AICPA. (If…
Ashley Driscoll · 5 min read