Teamwork
How to delegate work the right way
Not only is delegating work essential to your own well-being and success, it’s also important to your employees’ development and success.
The secret behind our high-performing team
It’s well-documented that trust is the single quality that contributes most heavily to success on a team. Build trust on your team with the Trust Triangle.
The simple activity that inspired a team
Check out how one team offered recognition and appreciation as a way of inspiring and motivating team members.
Lead your team like Ernest Shackleton.
When it comes to leadership, it’s about putting your team above yourself. That’s what explorer Ernest Shackleton did more than 100 years ago.
Game on! How to build agile teams
Discover 10 key traits of successful agile teams and learn 5 tips for building agile teams.
Build a five-star sales team with talent optimization
Building a successful sales team is no easy task. Fortunately, talent optimization helps you design, hire, and inspire winning teams.
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…
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….