Teamwork
Thanksgiving dinner: what kind of cook are you?
I don’t follow recipes, and I’m nervously excited for Thanksgiving dinner. I love to cook, but I’m not exactly “by the book” when it comes to following recipes. I’ll scan it over for the general idea of what needs to get done, and then I’m off to the races, foregoing the measuring cups and relying…
How to sell an idea to resistant team members
Whether you have a business idea you’re ready to pitch, or a team to lead into the next quarter, it’s important to know how to sell an idea. Unfortunately, the very prospect of “selling” something can turn off team members. This is because selling suggests there’s a better or equal alternative—even when there isn’t. So…
3 ways to foster employee creativity
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…
The right way to develop your IT team
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…
What drives us? Understanding personality in the workplace
Almost all issues in the workplace are people issues. Master your understanding of those, and you’ll have a much easier time in your career.
Toby in ‘The Office’ is funny but wrong
True confession: Toby was my favorite character on The Office.
The extraversion personality in the workplace: high vs. low extraversion
This blog post is the second in a four-part series covering the four behavioral drives that the Predictive Index™ measures in its PI Behavioral Assessment.
The dominant personality at work: high vs low dominance traits examined
This blog post is the first of a four-part series covering the four behavioral drives that The Predictive Index™ measures in its PI Behavioral Assessment. Why do we behave as we do? That question has preoccupied philosophers, psychologists, and researchers for millennia. Left unanswered, this question relegates all types of human behavior to a mystery….
Here’s what happens when you help employees you didn’t know needed it
One in five adults in America lives with mental illness. Here’s how organizations can support employees struggling with mental illness.
Can failure be a useful learning tool?
Leaders need to stop seeing failure as a red flag and start seeing it as an opportunity.
The five tips you need for virtual team management
They may be in different time zones, but managing your remote team doesn’t have to be difficult
Five ways to improve your sales team’s performance
Rev up your sales team and kick your selling strategy into high gear with these five tips. Keeping your sales team engaged and enthusiastic is a balancing act. Focusing too heavily on weekly or monthly sales goals can cause your salespeople to get stressed out and lose morale, but goals with measurable results are necessary for…
How to build great teammates
Look to these eight tips for building the perfect teammates within your organization.