Company Culture
Not a good fit termination: Steps to follow
Occasionally, employees don’t fit your culture. Here, some leadership experts share their perspectives and advice on how to deal with these employees.
Lin Grensing-Pophal · 8 min read
People Management
Company Culture
Cutting edge human resources: trends in talent optimization
Talent optimization is the future of work. Science, technology, analytics, and research will all help you leverage your people. Check out these resources.
Greg Barnett · 3 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
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
Company Culture
What is talent optimization?
Take a good hard look at your company. Is it performing at its absolute best? If you’re like most leaders, you struggle to overcome common business challenges like turnover, employee disengagement, a changing market, bad hires (the list goes on and on). In spite of your best efforts and your best intentions, you can’t quite…
Erin Balsa · 9 min read
Employee Engagement
How to motivate frontline employees
Just because you ask cashiers to collect email addresses from customers doesn’t mean they will. They might not cross-sell products like you ask them to either, or even embody your brand promise of customer service. Motivating your frontline employees— i.e. cashiers and customer service reps—to support your business goals can be a struggle. You might consider…
Erin Balsa · 7 min read
People Management
Best books for leaders to kick-start 2019
Luke Thomas is the head of growth at getAbstract, which finds and rates the top business books, articles, and video talks then summarizes them into 10-minute abstracts. Today, the company is the world’s leading provider of compressed knowledge for organizations of all sizes. A new year has begun and many of you are working hard at…
Luke Thomas · 5 min read
People Management
A conversation about people management with Jeff Haden
Author and LinkedIn thought leader Jeff Haden talks about people management, millennial managers, and even “chug points.”
Thad Peterson · 31 min read
Hiring
HR as a strategic partner: collaborating for success
The best HR professionals aren’t the compliance officers of old: they’re strategic partners in planning, org design, and driving the business to success.
Riia O'Donnell · 4 min read
People Management
Reason #2 why good employees quit: manager fit
Why do good employees leave? One of the biggest reasons is a poor fit or relationship with their direct manager. Find out how to fix this problem.
Jackie Dube · 5 min read
Company Culture
Toxic work environments: 15 factors that create a toxic workplace
Toxic work environments permeate company culture. Learn more about the top 15 causes of toxicity and steps business leaders can take to solve the problem.
Drew Fortin · 15 min read
Company Culture
Make common sense a part of your human resources strategy.
The best human resources leaders run departments that are fluid and proficient. This requires shaping effective processes but also knowing when to bend the rules. In fact, when we asked our people operations team to highlight top HR sins, recruiter Will Otto warned that process isn’t everything. Prioritizing process over common sense can come back to…
Jackie Dube · 3 min read
People Management
Good managers can’t fear conflict.
Victor Lipman is a management trainer and author. His online course on Udemy is The Manager’s Mindset and his book is “The Type B Manager.” He has more than 20 years of Fortune 500 management experience. He contributes regularly to Forbes and Psychology Today, and his work has appeared in Harvard Business Review. Dealing with management conflict…
Victor Lipman · 4 min read
Company Culture
An interview with an NHL player turned CEO
From a Princeton pizza shop to the NHL, from Goldman Sachs to software solutions, Mike McKee, CEO and Director of ObserveIT, has worked on and led teams of every flavor. But whether it’s delivering pizzas or developing security software, it always comes down to people. The Predictive Index Senior Director of Marketing, Thad Peterson, sat…
Thad Peterson · 24 min read