Talent

How to Inspire People to Listen to Your Brilliant Idea

You know the feeling. At work, you have a brilliant idea to work smarter, to be more productive, to have more fun, or to make things better in another way....

What to Predict Job Performance? Behavioural Assessments Work!

In our first post in this series, we explored the popularity of the personality assessment in the workplace over the past 50 years. In addition, we discuss the growing body...

How to Create a Breakthrough in Organizational Performance

What’s the most significant thing you can do to ensure organizational performance so that progress continues? Adopting an evidence-based mindset, an open-minded attitude that would seek to identify what has...

How to Build Your Start-Up Team for Success

A common failure for entrepreneurs is they “live in a vacuum,” as Steve Tobak put it in his post on Entrepreneur. Noteably, they become razor focused on their idea and vision,...

How to Increase the Tenure of Career Nomads

Every business leader should be concerned about increasing the tenure of career nomads. The average job tenure is just over four years for the entire workforce. However, it is as...

How to Radically Improve Brainstorming—Brainwriting—42% more original ideas

Our recent post “How to use the collective intelligence in the room” sets out guidance for meeting in general. In this post, we discuss “brainwriting,” the research behind it, and...

How to Achieve Remarkable Success — Use Situational Strengths

You have heard the adages “there is a time and a place for everything,” and “everything in moderation.” These adages apply to effectively using your high-performance traits. Our analytics help...

How to Quickly and Successfully Climb the Career Ladder

It’s not about leaders. It’s about leadership. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."—Stephen Covey Leaders play...

How to Know if You Need to Fire Your Most Talented Employee

Today more than ever, organizations need to adjust their mindset when it comes to hiring, developing, and firing employees. So many organizations fixate on short-term performance, “the numbers” and quarterly...

How to be A Remarkably Mentally Strong Person

A mentally strong person positively builds their mental muscle daily. They look to manage every single situation he or she meet in their lives professionally. This person grasps what is...

11 Interesting Hiring Statistics You Should Know

Do you know what job seekers are looking for when they target your company? By understanding the hiring statistics can be more effective at recruiting the very best candidates. In...

How to Use Your Pessimistic Outlook for Remarkable Success

Organizations need optimistic people and people with a pessimistic outlook. The key to career success is finding a role where you use your superpowers to contribute to organizational success. When...

How to Match High-Performers to the Right Roles

The allocation of financial capital is a critical driver of an organization’s performance. However, the value of managing and allocating human capital is less widely known. We consider an employee’s...

How to Ask for Help — Ask for Learning Feedback

Seeking learning feedback is a powerful approach to personal growth. “How easily do you ask for help?” It is one of the most emotionally challenging questions I ask people whom...

How To Find Meaning in Your Work — Change How You Think About It

An excellent New York Times article from 2007 recounted the 20th annual “Operator’s Challenge” — aka the “Sludge Olympics” — a competition for New York sewage treatment workers. The participants compete to show skill...

How to Challenge Thinking Patterns That Drag You Down

Your mind often leads you astray. It is not enough to look at what you are thinking. It would help if you also examined how you are thinking. What you...