4 Steps to a New Career Path in 2017

Posted by & filed under Active Listening, Actively Engaged Workers, Career Development, Communication, DISC Personality Styles, Hiring & Selection.

January is one of the busiest hiring months of the year. The beginning of a new fiscal year for many businesses, it inspires an influx of new positions that need filling. At the same time, January is a time for a lot of personal reflection as well, and it’s often when people look for a new… Read more »

Research Uncovers the Secret to Productivity (Hint: We’ve been right all along!)

Posted by & filed under Accountability, Actively Engaged Workers, Communication, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Employee Development, increasing personal effectiveness, teamwork.

Earlier this week we discussed soft skills and why employee development in these skills might be a good investment. Later this week, two articles reveal that focusing on productive communication, kindness, and “psychological safety” does, in fact, yield tangible results. This comes as no surprise to us, given the return on investment experienced by many clients… Read more »

Interested in Employee Training? 5 Reasons to Take the Plunge

Posted by & filed under Actively Engaged Workers, Career Development, Employee Development, increasing personal effectiveness, Personal Effectiveness.

Is your company looking for a new employee training program? Curious about investing in one for the first time? It’s wise to invest in employee training while things are going well rather than waiting for problems to arise. But employee development programs like Increasing Personal Effectiveness can help address issues like workplace dynamics, productivity, conflict, and management… Read more »

Are Toxic Behaviors Threatening Your Team?

Posted by & filed under Actively Engaged Workers, Employee Development, Performance Management, teamwork.

We’ve all worked with people who just weren’t team players. What becomes obvious as the days and weeks pass is that even one person who exhibits toxic behaviors in the workplace can seriously impact the way a team functions. Often the best course of action is to address and treat ineffective behaviors before they seriously… Read more »

Workplace Professionalism in the Age of Social Media

Posted by & filed under Actively Engaged Workers, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Professional Presence in a Casual World.

When we hear leaders lament the decline of professionalism in the modern workplace, many times their complaints fall under the category of millennials and technology. Employees spend too much time on their cell phones or spend work hours on social media or chat. Yet in the age of tech, when successful businesses often have a… Read more »

Self-Esteem: The Key to Peak Performance

Posted by & filed under Accountability, Actively Engaged Workers, increasing personal effectiveness, Leadership, Performance Management, Personal Effectiveness, Time management.

Perhaps the most important part of the role that your psychology has in determining your performance and behavior is the impact of your self-esteem in determining everything that happens to you. Self-esteem is the critical determinant of a healthy personality. When you like and respect yourself, you always perform and behave better than if you did… Read more »

Good to Great: The Measure of Exceptional Leadership

Posted by & filed under Accountability, Actively Engaged Workers, Communicating To Manage Performance, increasing personal effectiveness, Leadership.

Most people are actually somewhere between being a good leader and a bad leader, with the majority uncertain of the connection between their leadership and performance. A deeper knowledge of what good (or great) leadership is will then enable you to breakthrough and effect change in the performance of your team, organization or company like… Read more »

How to Model Others’ Behavior for Increased Effectiveness

Posted by & filed under Actively Engaged Workers, Communicating To Manage Performance, Communication.

Titles are granted, but it is your behavior that wins you respect. Leading means you have to be a good example, and live by what you say. This sentiment has been shared by all across the long history of leadership. Exemplary leaders know that if they want to gain commitment and achieve the highest standards,… Read more »

4 Ways to Consider the Value of Difficult People

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Consider the value of difficult people when you adjust your personal perspective toward them. In an ideal world, you always get to pick ideal candidates when building your team. In the real world, this is not the case. Rather, you either inherit your team, or discover the reality after they come on board. You get… Read more »