There are several typical types of assessments used in the workplace which include: Behavioral Assessments-Personality tests typically measure traits related to behavior at work, interpersonal interactions, and satisfaction with different aspects of work. Personality tests are often used to assess whether individuals have the potential to be successful in jobs where performance requires a great […]
Transparency means different things to different people. Some organizations may believe they are transparent, when in fact, employees and the general public believe the opposite. No matter what an individual believes about transparency, the concept is universally rooted in trust. Unfortunately, over the last several years, many corporations assured their employees, customers, and the public that […]
Conflict is going to be a part of your work life. And it’s not always a bad thing. Still, the most effective leaders are able to defuse conflict when it arises, so that work continues to get done. Healthy conflict means that people are sharing diverse ideas and points of view (as I point out […]
Leadership is not something that can be turned off like a TV. Leaders need to be always on because they are on stage constantly being observed. As a leader, you should take this awareness in and remember it daily. You are a constant model for other employees who could be watching and might incorporate your […]
As we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., many of us will remember his famous “I Have a Dream” speech delivered in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28, 1963. This speech demonstrated two critical leadership principles: Vision and Effective Communication. Vision As a leader, having a vision is critical to your leadership success. […]
The strategy-execution gap is one of the most persistent and costly problems in organizational leadership. Research by Harvard Business School has consistently found that only about 10 to 15 percent of organizations successfully execute their stated strategies. The remaining 85 to 90 percent develop plans that sound compelling in the boardroom and then watch those […]
Leadership is fundamentally a series of decisions — decisions about direction, resource allocation, people, priorities, and response to circumstances. The quality of those decisions, compounded over months and years, is what ultimately determines organizational outcomes. And yet most leadership development programs invest relatively little in teaching structured decision-making. Leaders are expected to make consequential decisions […]
Communication failure is the root cause of the majority of organizational problems. Conflicts that seem to be about values or personality are often traced back to miscommunication. Projects that derail despite capable teams frequently fail at handoffs between communication channels. Disengagement that looks like motivation problems often turns out to be a symptom of people […]
Employee engagement surveys have been a fixture of organizational life for decades. Organizations invest significant time and budget measuring engagement — and then often invest more on surface-level interventions that produce temporary score improvements without changing the underlying reality of how people experience their work. The gap between measuring engagement and genuinely improving it is […]
High-performance team culture is one of the most cited and least understood concepts in organizational leadership. Every leader says they want a high-performance team. Very few can articulate with precision what that means, how it is built, what sustains it over time, and what undermines it. This gap between aspiration and understanding is why so […]
