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…
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 corporation…
What if we told you something that your company could do that could increase trust among employees, improve individuals’ self-worth and self-efficacy, reduce employee illness and stress, and make your business 12x more likely to surpass competitors? Oh, and it doesn’t cost a cent. …
It’s 2016: women are outnumbering men in college enrollment, a woman is running for president, and nearly 8 million people are employed by women-owned businesses…That’s right: 8 million! According to the most recent “State of Women-Owned Businesses” Report, there are nearly 10 million women-owned…
