Discover how Innovators and Operators can thrive together in the workplace. Explore actionable strategies to bridge the gap between visionaries and planners, fostering collaboration, aligning teams, and turning potential friction into extraordinary results.
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As the holiday season approaches, the workplace often feels like a whirlwind of deadlines, demands, and year-end reviews. In the midst of this hustle, Fall offers us a natural reminder to pause, reflect, and recalibrate. The season’s changing energy encourages us to slow down, conserve our focus, and align our efforts with what truly matters—both individually and as a team.
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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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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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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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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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Giving someone your undivided attention in a conversation isn’t easy, but it is a skill we can practice and hone and, if we do, we can cultivate more meaningful relationships along the way.
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Allowing the creative juices to flow within guidelines, deadlines and the demands of modern business is a constant test for the skilled manager when dealing with “creative types.” However, if you know how to nurture their creativity to help them grow, your company will reap many benefits. Here are some tips to encourage that growth.
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Through our work with many CEO’s, we’ve found that one of the essential behavioral traits of a mindful, effective leader is Support. When you lead with support, you foster loyalty and high morale, and in return, you’ll be rewarded with high productivity and happy people.
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I’ve spent my whole life performing. Performing for audiences. Performing for teachers. Performing for colleagues. Performing for leaders. And yet, I wouldn’t consider myself a natural performer. I’m not energized by being in the spotlight — in fact, it drains me. But, because my family is strangely drawn to suffering, at the age of 7
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