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build a five-star sales team with talent optimization

Build a five-star sales team with talent optimization

13 min read

Building a successful sales team is no easy task. Fortunately, talent optimization helps you design, hire, and inspire winning teams.

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Talent optimization: why you should invest in leadership development

5 min read

The science says that leadership development programs are effective in developing current and future leaders, as well as improving organizational results.

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First time manager tips: how to survive the role

6 min read

Congratulations! You’ve earned a manager title. Your role is about to get a whole lot different. Here’s a quick survival guide.

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Great leaders inspire followership

How great leaders inspire followership

5 min read

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…

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Management skills for talent optimizers

20 management skills for talent optimizers

12 min read

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…

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Best books for leaders to kick-start 2019

5 min read

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…

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3 new talent management trends to kick off 2019

7 min read

Stacia Sherman Garr is a researcher and thought leader on talent management, leadership, D&I, people analytics, and HR technology. A frequent speaker and writer, her work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, and The New York Times. Stacia co-founded RedThread Research in 2018, after leading talent and workforce research for eight years at Bersin by Deloitte. Before Bersin, Stacia spent nearly five…

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Workforce planning is essential

Workforce planning to meet today’s goals and tomorrow’s

4 min read

Without a workforce plan, HR professionals are filling seats rather than finding talent, and patching problems instead of nurturing engagement.

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Employee in a creative workplace

3 ways to foster employee creativity

3 min read

As you think about how you run your company, are you giving consideration to the importance of creativity? Too many executives limit their thinking when it comes to creativity and blithely assume that it’s the purview of the design department or the marketing team. But in most organizations these days, creativity is what drives innovation—and…

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Jeffe Hedaa talks IT team development

The right way to develop your IT team

16 min read

Mike Zani, CEO of The Predictive Index, sat down with Jeppe Hedaa, CEO of 7N, to find out this leader’s one-of-a-kind formula for team efficiency—more specifically, IT development and the areas that make a real difference in performance. Press play to listen to the podcast or read the transcript below. Mike: I’m Mike Zani. I’m the CEO of…

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Don't be afraid to ask your underperforming employee tough questions

5 questions to ask your underperforming employee

5 min read

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…

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Be a great manager with these 12 leadership books.

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12 leadership and team management books that have had the biggest impact on the way I manage and lead.

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5 ways to avoid email misinterpretations

7 min read

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…

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Woman working on whiteboard

Please can we just get stuff done

6 min read

Why, despite the vast amount of technology at our disposal, do organizations consistently struggle to get stuff done?

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