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Author: Jennifer Taylor

by Jennifer Taylor

Emerging Leaders: Lauren Hutson

While we certainly promote developing, coaching, and continually improving leaders – it is what our business is based upon! – we also have found, through years of assessing employees and studying their personalities and backgrounds, that some qualities are persistent and identifiable far before an…

Emerging Leaders

At Assessment+, we firmly believe in developing, acknowledging, and rewarding leaders at ANY and EVERY age. After all, leadership isn’t limited to those at the top of the corporate chain of executives. Leadership can be found in the child who goes out of their way…

Communication through Employee Engagement and Pulse Surveys

It is no surprise that communication is at the core of every article, assessment, and discussion regarding employee engagement and leadership development. After all, brilliant ideas are useless without the communication channels to convey them to others and interpersonal relationships are wholly built on various…

The Quickest Fix to Improving Employee Engagement

  Let’s start by saying this: There is no one-step trick to boosting employee engagement. It’s not as easy as the click of a button or an addition to a paycheck. Improving company morale and cultivating individual commitment to a corporation’s mission and values is…

Top 6 Lessons from Military Leader Mark Hertling

The Riverside Military Academy auditorium was filled with 550 boys – boys ranging from Private First Class to Battalion Commander, young boys during some of their most critical developmental years, boys learning about leadership in their roles as Cadets every single day. Before them, Lieutenant…

The 10 Best Tips for Providing 360 Feedback

One of the questions that arises most often when administering 360 Feedback Surveys is this: “What can I say to actually help [insert employee’s name here] develop? Is my feedback being heard?” The position of a “Rater” in a 360 Survey Process is perhaps the…

5 Ways Companies Can Make the Most of Customized Assessments

  While there is undoubtedly something to be said for the brand name, everlasting, tried-and-true leadership, personality, and employee engagement assessments continually infiltrating the markets, it is also important to note that these assessments are never “One Size Fits All” for simply any company. Every…

Book Review: Make Your Bed by William McRaven

  Does it really matter whether you meticulously make your bed each and every morning? After all, you’re just going to mess it up later anyways, so isn’t it a waste of precious time to repeat this somewhat tedious task? Do the perfect corners and…

4 Reasons Coaching Is Critical After 360 Feedback

So you’ve completed the 360 feedback process, gotten your report, looked at your results, and…now what? Just like we use coaches to improve sport performance, coaches are also critical for improving work performance through providing encouragement, seeing things from a different perspective, and guiding us…