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Dealing with bad employees
People Management
4 min read

What to do when you can’t stand the people you manage

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…

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unhappy employee
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4 min read

How to calculate employee turnover cost

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,…

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What is Myers Briggs

Comparing Myers-Briggs vs. The Predictive Index

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…

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PI Sales Team
People Management
3 min read

5 PI patterns that have potential to be sales rock stars

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…

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Man peering over desk
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4 min read

Four ways to introduce The Predictive Index to your people

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,…

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Man angry at work
Company Culture
4 min read

Five reasons your email makes me cringe

The all-too-common email habits that make your coworkers want to poke their eyes out

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Man pushing boulder up mountain
People Management
3 min read

Challenging performative leadership

Reevaluating leadership and challenging where true power lies

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Dealing with bad employees
People Management
4 min read

What to do when you can’t stand the people you manage

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…

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Sign saying "I quit"
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6 min read

When a valuable employee leaves, how do you fill the void?

After an all-star employee suddenly left the Florida State Fair Authority, the organization looked to The Predictive Index to pick up the pieces.

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Manager in Predictive Index workshop
People Management
4 min read

Conflict management: Are you sweeping it under the rug?

Handling conflict and being ready to face it is a key component of being a leader

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Five stars
Uncategorized
5 min read

The Predictive Index develops continual improvements to its employee review process

The 4 steps PI is using to implement 360 reviews within the organization

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Kid on springs
Company Culture
5 min read

5 steps to marketing your business from the inside out

When employees identify with a leader’s “why,” they become ambassadors for your cause.

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People highfiving
People Management
10 min read

What I learned from watching a bunch of losers

8 tips for creating better performing organizations in business and sports

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improving organizational communication
People Management
3 min read

Five steps to improving organizational communication

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…

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People holding each other accountable
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3 min read

The one leadership attribute CEOs need to drill through their organization

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….

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