2023 – Identifying Next Steps
Here we are again, the end of one year and the beginning of another and it’s time to think about identifying your next steps. Let’s spend some time reflecting on the year we’re letting go, and the new year we’re…
Hiring? Four Reasons for Consistency
I cannot stress enough the importance of creating consistency in your hiring process. Consistency provides you with the same selection criteria and reference points for making decisions and, most important, it plays a part in keeping your hiring process legally…
Throw Your Heart Over the Fence
I grew up with horses — starting with casual riding, then playing cowboys & Indians (on real horses), and showing hunter/jumpers when I got older. One of the first things that was drilled into my head when learning to jump…
Let’s End 2019 Well and Start 2020 Strong!
As we find ourselves in this breather between Christmas and the new year, below is an exercise to help you take time to pause and reflect, before turning your focus forward to your upcoming objectives for the new year.
Handling the White-Water of Change
Handling leadership changes can be unsettling at best, and frustrating and emotionally draining at worst. If you’re a leader helping your team stay focused during these times, composure (the ability to handle stress) and empathy are critical for navigating changes…
Perception and Truth — Sometimes Worlds Apart
“The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.” —Deborah Tannen It’s amazing, and slightly disheartening, how quickly sensationalism travels while the truth seems to take painstakingly long to emerge….
Helping Employees Understand the Four Stages of Behavior Change
Helping employees adopt a mindset for positive behavioral change can be a challenge. Positive and negative behaviors affect an individual’s productivity and communications, team functions, and interactions with clients. Performance-based behavioral assessments are helpful tools to identify the strengths and…
Six Benefits of Assessing Your Current Workforce
It is easy to wonder, what benefits as an organization (or as a manager) are you going to receive from using behavioral assessments in your employee / leadership development programs? Below are six good reasons why behavioral assessments and the…
Leadership is Listening
“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.” —Andy Stanley While you or I could tell a new hire or current employee exactly what areas they need to focus on developing, and…
The End of One Year is the Beginning of the Next
“Be filled with an enthusiasm for living, a joyous expectation of the more that is to be, and gratitude for what has been.” — Ernest Holmes It’s the end of one year, and soon will be the beginning of the…