Persuader

Matt Poepsel, PhD, is the VP of Professional Services at PI, the "Godfather of Talent Optimization," and the author of "Expand the Circle: Enlightened Leadership for Our New World of Work." For every N. E. Patriots game, he prepares food and drinks that originate from the opponent's region.

two employees talking and eating
People Management
5 min read

Why your 1:1 meetings are a waste of time (and how to flip the script)

More than 20% of managers meet with their manager less frequently than once a month. Here’s why you need 1:1 meetings and how to make the most of them.

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Mindful executive in the workplace
Company Culture
6 min read

Mindfulness in the workplace: a cheat sheet

What is mindfulness in the workplace? Learn the basics, plus find out how leaders and employees can be more mindful—and how to establish a mindful culture.

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Talent optimizers in meeting room
People Management
4 min read

Want to be more agile? Look back before moving ahead.

An increasing number of companies are pursuing an agile transformation strategy to accelerate innovation. Make sure you’re looking back when you look ahead.

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Company Culture
4 min read

Drive innovation with a “fail fast” culture.

When you establish and reinforce your culture to support your strategic goals to innovate, you create an environment where it’s safe to fail.

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Talent optimization and the agile leader
People Management
4 min read

Talent optimization and the agile leader

A key success factor in agile transformation is the collective mindset and behaviors of its leaders. Talent optimization can help leaders make that shift.

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Matt Poepsel PhD
Employee Engagement
6 min read

These people problems are destroying your business—and HR can’t solve them.

Business leaders, can we talk? I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First the bad news:  The vast majority of your businesses–regardless of your company size or industry–won’t reach their full potential this year. Instead, a variety of people issues will create risk for your business and destroy value. This “people tax” will…

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How to build leadership capacity
Leadership
16 min read

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.

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manager presenting on culture and work productity
People Management
6 min read

The biggest work productivity killer: culture

We’ve all had days where the productive person who walked through the door in the morning loses steam by mid-afternoon. There are a variety of factors that can kill work productivity including poor job fit and being forced to work alongside low performers. But according to an informal survey PI conducted at the 2018 MassTLC…

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PI employee listening to music
Company Culture
4 min read

7 ways to create an upward spiral of confidence

I consider myself to be a reasonably confident fellow. Need somebody to tackle a challenging work project? Have a new big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) that needs to be achieved? Seeking a karaoke partner to belt out The B-52’s “Rock Lobster”? I’m your guy.

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Meeting with clients
People Management
7 min read

My life as a PI Persuader

Hi there! My name is Matt and I’m a Persuader. More on that in a bit, but let me first set the stage by telling you a little bit about myself.

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man listening in group
People Management
6 min read

Levels of formality at work: high vs. low formality behavioral drive

This blog post is the fourth in a four-part series covering the four behavioral drives that the Predictive Index™ measures in its PI Behavioral Assessment.

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Steve at PC
People Management
6 min read

The patience drive deconstructed

This blog post is the third in a four-part series covering the four behavioral drives that The Predictive Index measures in its PI Behavioral Assessment.

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Women laughing with each other
People Management
6 min read

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.

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Jill and Marissa laughing
Uncategorized
9 min read

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….

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Dog dressed as boss
Uncategorized
2 min read

Manager’s best friend: PI creates behavioral assessment for dogs

PI has gone to the dogs with our latest behavioral assessments for your pooch

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