Teamwork
How to leverage workplace personality tests
Leveraging data from workplace personality tests will be the differentiator that gives your company a competitive advantage.
Are your employees weighed down by work pressure?
Work pressure motivates employees to excel and achieve, but hinders performance if it gets too high. Here’s how managers can create a challenging but safe workplace.
Why leadership agility is critical to company success
In today’s market, your organization’s survival is based on a number of key factors—including its ability to be agile. Are you an agile leader?
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.
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…
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…
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…
5 questions to ask your underperforming employee
Underperformance can stem from many issues. Unclear expectations from management, poor cultural fit, and a lack of constructive feedback are just a few. Underperforming employees prevent your company from meeting its business goals. They can also dampen the rest of the team’s spirits. Bad energy is contagious. As a manager, you know you need to…
Be a great manager with these 12 leadership books.
12 leadership and team management books that have had the biggest impact on the way I manage and lead.
5 ways to avoid email misinterpretations
Text, email, Facebook Messenger, heck, let’s even throw snail mail in there—nowadays, there are a ton of ways to communicate with our peers without having to interact face to face. And because of the ease and convenience, we have become dependent on these tools as our first form of communication. The problem is, the written…
How self-aware are you?
Recently, I had a client come to me very upset. She had begun working with two people who both had a Predictive Index behavioral pattern almost identical to hers and she said, “Melanie, please tell me I don’t come across like those two!” Unfortunately, what I couldn’t tell her was that the descriptions she gave me…
How to understand different types of employee behavior in the workplace
Understanding the influencing factors and types of employee behavior is critical to your success. Here’s the four key factors you need to know.
Using The Predictive Index to promote team transparency
Have you ever had the feeling one of your colleagues just didn’t like you? You might have thought, “That person just doesn’t understand me. If they truly took the time to get to know me, I think they would like me.”
Five reasons your email makes me cringe
The all-too-common email habits that make your coworkers want to poke their eyes out