Employee Engagement
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Reason #4 why employees quit: poor organizational fit
Disengagement can be caused by misalignment with jobs, managers, and teams. Here’s reason number four why employees quit.
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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.
Company Culture
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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.
Employee Engagement
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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?
Company Culture
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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.
Consultant Resources
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Is it legal for employers to give applicants pre-employment assessments?
Not sure about the use of pre-employment assessments in the hiring process? Get the ins and outs from one of our scientists.
Employee Engagement
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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.
Employee Engagement
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Reason #4 why employees quit: poor organizational fit
Disengagement can be caused by misalignment with jobs, managers, and teams. Here’s reason number four why employees quit.
Hiring
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Reason #3 why good employees quit: team fit
There are four forces of employee disengagement and poor team fit is number three on the list. (Previously we’ve covered poor job fit and poor manager fit, which are reasons one and two.) Top organizations are built on high-functioning teams. That’s because a team that’s fully aligned is greater than the sum of its parts; team…
Employee Engagement
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These people problems are destroying your business—and HR can’t solve them.
Business leaders, can we talk? I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First the bad news: The vast majority of your businesses–regardless of your company size or industry–won’t reach their full potential this year. Instead, a variety of people issues will create risk for your business and destroy value. This “people tax” will…
Company Culture
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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.
Hiring
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3 ways Gen Z will change the workplace
Move over, millennials: Generation Z is growing up, and its oldest members are now entering the workplace. Individuals from Gen Z (ages 7-22 in 2019, according to Pew Research) have much in common with millennials—but there are some significant differences, too. The more you understand what makes Gen Z tick, the better positioned you’ll be…
Company Culture
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How to help clients craft their mission and vision statements
When you’re working with clients to solve their business challenges, you might consider having them revisit their mission and vision statements. Too many companies phone it in when writing these key messages because they think mission and vision statements don’t matter. But if approached intentionally and strategically, they can make a massive positive impact. As…
People Management
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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…
Hiring
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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…