People Management
How to build leadership capacity at your company
Increasing leadership capacity has an outsized impact on employee engagement and business results. Here’s how you can start building up your leaders.
Daniel Muzquiz · 13 min read
Teamwork
People Management
My manager will not plan a team outing, and our team is stronger because of it!
Team outings are commonly used to promote team building. But what happens when a manager doesn’t want to plan an outing? Read this blog to find out.
Trish Davis-Gray · 5 min read
Teamwork
The one team building activity that actually works
Team building is important for building the interpersonal relationships that allow teams to thrive and work cohesively to create results.
Chris Butsch · 5 min read
Hiring
How to leverage workplace personality tests
Leveraging data from workplace personality tests will be the differentiator that gives your company a competitive advantage.
Alexandra LeBlanc · 5 min read
People Management
Are your employees weighed down by work pressure?
Work pressure motivates employees to excel and achieve, but hinders performance if it gets too high. Here’s how managers can create a challenging but safe workplace.
Elior Moskowitz · 3 min read
Company Culture
Why leadership agility is critical to company success
In today’s market, your organization’s survival is based on a number of key factors—including its ability to be agile. Are you an agile leader?
Chuck Mollor · 7 min read
People Management
First time manager tips: how to survive the role
Congratulations! You’ve earned a manager title. Your role is about to get a whole lot different. Here’s a quick survival guide.
Rich Weiss · 6 min read
People Management
How great leaders inspire followership
There is an interesting leadership conundrum that’s common in business settings: informal leaders often have many loyal followers while formal leaders may have few—maybe none! Why? Because leadership isn’t something that can be simply bestowed upon someone by an organization. It’s something that is earned. “The language used for effective followership is ‘exemplary followership,’ coined…
Lin Grensing-Pophal · 5 min read
Hiring
20 management skills for talent optimizers
As a talent optimizer, you need to master diverse leadership and management skills. You might be naturally adept at some of the following skills—but developing competency in others will force you to stretch beyond your comfort level to close gaps. While it won’t be easy, doing that important work will set you up to be…
Erin Balsa · 12 min read
People Management
Best books for leaders to kick-start 2019
Luke Thomas is the head of growth at getAbstract, which finds and rates the top business books, articles, and video talks then summarizes them into 10-minute abstracts. Today, the company is the world’s leading provider of compressed knowledge for organizations of all sizes. A new year has begun and many of you are working hard at…
Luke Thomas · 5 min read
People Management
5 questions to ask your underperforming employee
Underperformance can stem from many issues. Unclear expectations from management, poor cultural fit, and a lack of constructive feedback are just a few. Underperforming employees prevent your company from meeting its business goals. They can also dampen the rest of the team’s spirits. Bad energy is contagious. As a manager, you know you need to…
Will Otto · 5 min read
People Management
Be a great manager with these 12 leadership books.
12 leadership and team management books that have had the biggest impact on the way I manage and lead.
Drew Fortin · 8 min read
Teamwork
5 ways to avoid email misinterpretations
Text, email, Facebook Messenger, heck, let’s even throw snail mail in there—nowadays, there are a ton of ways to communicate with our peers without having to interact face to face. And because of the ease and convenience, we have become dependent on these tools as our first form of communication. The problem is, the written…
Wilfred Hirst · 7 min read
People Management
How self-aware are you?
Recently, I had a client come to me very upset. She had begun working with two people who both had a Predictive Index behavioral pattern almost identical to hers and she said, “Melanie, please tell me I don’t come across like those two!” Unfortunately, what I couldn’t tell her was that the descriptions she gave me…
Thad Peterson · 4 min read
People Management
How to understand different types of employee behavior in the workplace
Understanding the influencing factors and types of employee behavior is critical to your success. Here’s the four key factors you need to know.
Greg Barnett · 6 min read