Frustrating employees got you down? Here are 5 ways to combat this management nightmare. In one key area, senior management differs not at all from the role of the supervisor on the shop floor. Regardless of your level in an organization, you will over the course of your management career have difficult people to deal…
A large part of employee turnover is connected to bad hiring decisions. SHRM estimates average annual employee turnover rates to be around 19%. For a 200-employee-sized business, that’s 38 departures every year. In compensation terms, the real cost of employee turnover can be up to five times the position’s annual compensation, depending on the type of role, location,…
A lifelong MBTI practitioner’s take on PI. What’s a woman who’s built her career around Myers-Briggs (MBTI) to do when her husband buys The Predictive Index (PI)? I’m not talking about buying the PI assessment solution, mind you. I’m talking about him buying the whole darn company. PI is a tool that can be considered a competitive…
Before building an all-star sales team, these PI behavioral patterns will identify who your top-performing salespeople are. While nothing trumps a Job Assessment, or setting a Job Target, to determine the perfect fit for your sales organization, I am often asked by prospective and current clients which patterns we typically see in different sales positions. One…
How you introduce an assessment into your organization can determine its success or failure Sometimes, it is not what you say, it’s how you say it that can make all the difference. Companies nowadays are growing so quickly that they forget this important message and divert to not saying anything at all! Communication is critical,…
The all-too-common email habits that make your coworkers want to poke their eyes out
Reevaluating leadership and challenging where true power lies
Frustrating employees got you down? Here are 5 ways to combat this management nightmare. In one key area, senior management differs not at all from the role of the supervisor on the shop floor. Regardless of your level in an organization, you will over the course of your management career have difficult people to deal…
After an all-star employee suddenly left the Florida State Fair Authority, the organization looked to The Predictive Index to pick up the pieces.
Handling conflict and being ready to face it is a key component of being a leader
The 4 steps PI is using to implement 360 reviews within the organization
When employees identify with a leader’s “why,” they become ambassadors for your cause.
8 tips for creating better performing organizations in business and sports
Whether you’re focusing on management or hiring solutions, you’ll need to create an environment of cohesiveness in order to succeed. Communication and collaboration go hand in hand. Sometimes, businesses need a tune-up to maximize the talking and open conversation amongst employees and teams. How to improve organizational communication Improving the communication and collaborative efforts in…
This simple leadership attribute makes an everyday difference in how effectively an organization runs If I were the CEO of a sizable company and were looking for one leadership attribute to drill down through my organization, it wouldn’t be one of those big highly publicized marquee qualities like, say, strategic thinking or innovation or disruption….