“How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.” – Coach Kirby Smart I’m from the south, and like most southerners, Saturdays in the fall are for family, friends, good food, and football! If our team is having a great year,…
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…
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…
The New Year is here, which means a few things: a full email inbox after a holiday break, trying to figure out if the button still works on our jeans after a month of sweet treats, and the opportunity to “start anew” in 2019 and…
Although managers love to live by various adages regarding the importance of their employees and the necessity in investing in their development, sometimes the workload and busy schedules end up taking precedent. Often, investing in your people can be placed on the back burner….
It’s apparent whether you actually study leadership development or if you simply start a conversation with any circle of acquaintances – the general workforce is not engaged. Most Americans are living for the weekend, for holiday breaks from the office, for long-awaited-and-eagerly-anticipated vacations. To put…
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…
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…
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…