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How to Increase Your Influence as an Introverted Leader

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by Jennifer Mirgorod It’s no secret that leadership comes in all styles and personalities, but introverts often find themselves overshadowed by their extroverted counterparts in the workplace. Despite the success of leaders like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, who proudly embrace their introversion, many introverted professionals remain overlooked for top positions and, on average, earn […]

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The Power of Awareness: How SSA Leveraged Self-Awareness for Leadership Success

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In today’s fast-paced hospitality industry, leadership success hinges on more than just operational skills—it requires deep self-awareness. SSA Group partnered with Behavioral Essentials to implement the E3 Behavioral Insights Platform, helping their leaders enhance emotional intelligence, reduce conflict, and improve team performance. This data-driven approach to leadership has led to remarkable growth, with a 300% increase in engagement, demonstrating that self-awareness is the key to building stronger teams and thriving organizations.

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Why You Should Use Behavioral Assessments for Hiring

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Technical Skills matter when you’re making a hire, but they’re only one piece of the puzzle. You don’t just want to hire someone who can adequately perform tasks without knowing if they will fit into your company’s culture, have the same values as the organization and generally be happy at their job. Fortunately, by utilizing a Behavioral Assessment in your hiring process you can predict those other pieces of the puzzle by looking at actual data on how prospective employees are expected to behave in a given role or a work situation.

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The Most Effective Conflict Resolution Strategy: Awareness and Understanding

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Conflict causes a lot of people a lot of pain in the workplace. Whether it stems from miscommunication, misunderstanding, or a lack of awareness of other’s needs, it can make or break a team, decreasing performance and eating away at well-being. To truly resolve workplace conflicts, we need to start focusing on cultivating awareness and understanding. 

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‘The Great Resignation’: Why Burned Out Employees are Quitting and What They Want

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After more than a year-and-a-half of working in a pandemic, burnout levels are going through the roof and employees have had enough. Across the globe, an increasing number of people feel overwhelmed, overworked and burned out. So what do employees want out of their workplace? How can employers avoid losing their top talent? How can you show your younger employees, in particular, that they are valued? Find out in this post.

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The Three Essential Traits of an Effective Leader

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One of the most rewarding and challenging things about being a leader is the diverse set of skills it requires. You need technical skills and expertise in your field, management skills, planning skills, communication skills and the list goes on. However, in our time working with many companies we’ve found that effective leadership can most often be distilled down to three traits: Integrity, Accessibility & Openness.

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20 Quotes to Help You Embrace Change & Uncertainty

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As you walk through life, you come to realize that change is inevitable. Our minds, physical bodies and external worlds are constantly in flux and yet we all try so desperately to cling to certainty. But most of the time, and arguably always, if we worked as hard at accepting change as we do to prevent it, our efforts would likely bear a sweeter fruit. Here are 20 quotes to help you navigate and embrace uncertainty and change.

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