How to set effective team goals

Tips, strategies, and workplace examples of effective team goal-setting Setting effective team goals sounds simple enough. After all, we set goals for ourselves every day. Whether you’re writing down a to-do list or trying to accomplish something a little more long-term, setting a goal just means stating what you want to get done. So why…

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Employee Engagement

35 manager survey questions for employees: A 2023 guide

Manager survey questions offer a valuable opportunity to solicit employee feedback, and effectively improve manager performance.

Ashley McCann · 14 min read

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Business Strategy

4 reasons HR fails to get approval for the tools they need

As an HR professional, your best defense is a good offense. If you can anticipate the reasons you might have a proposal denied, you can more readily dispel misconceptions.

Andrew Barks · 6 min read

Building a high-performing team

How do you build a high-performing team? Even the clearest business vision is lost without the right people in place. You certainly can’t build a high-performing team just by hiring a few people with glowing resumes. This holds true whether yours is an organization of five or 5,000, multinational or local. You can’t achieve your…

Andrew Barks · 11 min read

Leadership

Expand the Circle: A Q&A with author and enlightened leader Matt Poepsel, PhD

In his new book, Expand the Circle, PI’s Matt Poepsel has a solution for ineffective and outdated leadership. Learn more in our Q&A.

David Silbert · 19 min read

Hiring

I should have listened to my recruiter: Reflections of a hiring manager

I spent five months working with our lead recruiter to hire a Growth Marketing Manager. Here’s everything I learned.

Amy Saenger · 10 min read

Company Culture

Living the green dream: A view from the PI Office Olympics pedestal

Nobody approached this “return to office” request with a sense of obligation. We were here to connect with colleagues, sure, but also to compete.

Andrew Barks · 11 min read

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Leadership

The 5 communication styles and how to use them effectively

Understanding the different communication styles of our team members builds trust, improves interpersonal skills, and enables efficient and effective decision making.

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Leadership

The signs of micromanaging: How to spot them, so you can stop them

Micromanagement fuels resentment and negativity—and who wants to work in an office like that? True leaders are constantly seeking to improve themselves, which means enhancing their self-awareness.

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Business Strategy

5 best practices for running an effective catch-up meeting

Meetings are essential to a team’s communication, collaboration, and effectiveness. But with so many different kinds of meetings out there, from one-on-one meetings to all hands meetings, how do you know which one is the most effective for your needs?

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Company Culture

Perception bias: How to recognize and avoid it (with workplace examples)

Perception bias influences how we perceive people based on their race, gender, age, and much more, and if left unchecked, it can lead us to make poor decisions based on stereotypes and assumptions. 

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Company Culture

A new frontier: What HR teams should know about AI in the workplace

Companies are playing perpetual catch-up when it comes to understanding not only who’s using AI tools, but the ramifications of how they’re using them.

Andrew Barks · 8 min read

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Employee Engagement

A human energy crisis: How you can help your most important resource recharge

What does a human energy crisis mean for the world of work? It’s a question that is becoming top of mind for business leaders everywhere.

Harry Davis · 5 min read