In the words of Gretchen Rubin, “What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.” The daily habits that we practice shape our weeks, months, and years, for better or worse. We can learn how to intentionally shape…
360 feedback can be an incredibly valuable tool to help you grow and develop as a leader. This type of feedback is essential at gaining more self-awareness and developing a deeper understanding of how your behaviors, communication style, and leadership style affect those with whom…
We live in a time when the flexibility of the stereotypical “office” environment is changing the way we view the workplace. Out are the days of white walls and stuffy cubicles, and replacing these cookie-cutter cells are ideas of open-desk floorplans, coworking spaces, and…
Employee Engagement: It’s a buzzword that we’ve written about again and again and again. It is one of the most-often Google-searched phrases in the leadership development industry, and rightly so. It may not be a keyword thrown around the dinner table after a day’s work,…
Here on the Assessment+ blog – and on leadership development articles across the Internet – the prevailing theme is positive guidance: For example, the Top 5 Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset, or our 10 Best Tips for Providing 360 Feedback. We love providing tips…
If you saw our last blog article, you know that a company’s greatest superpower is its people! Plus, the need to effectively manage workforces is evolving yet evermore vital. With the Baby Boomer generation reaching retirement age, there are an estimated 11+ million job…
Negative news is inevitably all around us. We can’t escape the nightly reports of overseas wars, the newspaper headlines about local crime, the constant reminders of traffic accidents on our commutes to work, or the devastating stories of natural disasters that seem to occur in…
A “Growth Mindset” is both a buzzword and an often ideological concept in today’s world. It’s the idea that skills are not innate, nor are they ever fixed. Rather, it is the notion that anyone can develop, grow, and nurture their talents to maximize…
It’s safe to say that defining “organizational culture” isn’t necessarily black-and-white. As Michael D. Watkins writes in the Harvard Business Review, “While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there…
Book Review of: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing I must admit that I’m somewhat addicted to new ideas and techniques that will keep me organized and efficient: I schedule time in my day to simply “think.” That’s right…I make it a…