Dream teams don’t form by accident. You achieve team cohesion and continuity by intentionally aligning your people and your goals. It also means practicing self-awareness on every level. As a leader, before you can reassess, balance, and guide talent optimized teams, you need to: This toolkit is designed to put resources all in one place,…
Workplace equality can’t be achieved unless everyone feels valued. And this starts by learning how to hire not just for diversity, but also inclusion.
We know the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the national and world economies into a deep recession. Social distancing’s impact on consumer activity, unemployment, and the virtual workplace has been well-documented. But there’s another side to COVID’s economic effects. Resilient companies and entire industries have adjusted out of sheer necessity. In trying to get lean, many…
If you’re like a lot of organizations, you’ve been having pivotal conversations about your culture. You’re self-assessing, asking tough questions like: Are we inclusive? Does our business support and promote a diverse range of perspectives? Are we part of the problem, or the solution? If your business is making an honest effort to tackle heavy…
Join 150k+ leaders reading our Monthly Newsletter. Subscribe Your clients are everything. You guide them through their challenges and celebrate their successes. But client problems don’t always have simple solutions—and it’s easy to feel stretched thin. You know the secret to all great organizations is great people. Yet people are complex, and it can be…
Guide your clients to recovery. Empower your clients with people data. We know you’re doing all you can to guide your clients to recovery. Gone are the face-to-face, in-person interactions once used to strike an emotional chord. Your recommendations are more critical than ever, but the landscape has shifted. In times like these, let data…
Now is a time for organizations to listen, learn, and act. Here’s how you can have honest DEI discussions with your people.
There’s no doubt confidence is a coveted attribute, especially for leaders and managers. However, it’s rarely clear what it is or how it’s obtained. Neurologically and definitionally, confidence is actually a decision anyone can proactively make in a given situation. We just don’t always realize that, and few people are trained in how to do…
What’s one thing all micromanagers have in common? They don’t trust their people, and as we know, trust is at the core of any high-performing team. Particularly in industries like tech, where autonomous work is essential to efficiency, micromanagement can be a morale killer. The best managers are adept at delegating work to highly engaged…
When someone brings up “career pathing,” your brain is programmed to zoom out. Instinctively, you think about the big picture. It can be tough to view things at that sort of scale when the next month, or even the next week, is indefinite. If there’s one certainty about the COVID-19 crisis, it’s that nothing is…
Leadership opportunities provide another means of engaging employees. They also upskill your people at a time your organization needs it most. When developing leaders, it’s important to teach the value of self-awareness. Using behavioral data, you can objectively walk employees through their unique behavioral strengths and caution areas. Then, you can compare their behavioral makeup to others…
The spotlight is on executives to communicate effectively during this crisis.
The reality is your employees are scared and stressed right now. Here’s how you can protect employee engagement and productivity.
Good employee engagement strategies are key to productive organizations. Having trouble implementing effective ones? Here are four you can try.