Cultivating Awareness and Connection at Work During Seasonal Shifts

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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How to Increase Your Influence as an Introverted Leader

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

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

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

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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How to Manage Highly Creative Employees

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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Behind the Curtain: The Cost of a Perfect Performance

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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