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Behavioral assessments are a growing trend amongst hiring managers and human resource departments. Essentially, a behavioral assessment is a tool to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of how an individual handles a given situation. There are many different assessments out there for a variety of different job roles, but overall, they help management understand where…

“We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.” – Shawn Achor. This may sound like a cliched statement at first – but it’s every bit grounded in reality as it is in the realm of wishful thinking. A growing body of studies provides enough empirical evidence to suggest a correlation between happiness…

Diversity is a term that gets thrown around a lot in today’s media, but what does it actually mean? The official definition uses words like “inclusion, difference,” and “variety.” True diversity is when all of these words can describe a unified group. Diversity also doesn’t refer to just one kind, either. Diversity can mean a…

We all know that stress is bad for us. Not only does stress have long-term negative effects on our mental and physical wellbeing, but stress can also affect our work, attitude, sleep, productivity, and more both in our personal and professional lives. Avoiding stress, though, is easier said than done. Most jobs will have some…

Employee motivation is the attitude with which employees do their jobs. Employee motivation can be lacking, making for a slow-working, burnt-out workforce. Employee motivation can also be unhealthy, such as when employees are solely acting out of self-interest or for some other short-term gain. Any good business leader knows that encouraging healthy employee motivation is…

What is success? If you ask 10 different people, you will get 10 different definitions of success, as everyone has different notions of what success is. For some, it is meeting their sales goals for the year. For others, it is doing what they love in life. Though success is more or less one and…

More and more businesses are realizing that having engaged employees leads to more positive business outcomes. Engaged employees are often committed to their company’s goals and go above and beyond to complete their assignments.  The Harvard Business Review Analytic Services surveyed over 500 business executives and 71% of respondents ranked employee engagement as ‘very important’ to achieving…

A full year has passed since we were hit with the coronavirus.  There have been numerous challenges to overcome in the workplace.  Our workplace looks different and feels different.  We have employees who are working from home full-time, employees reboarding back into the workplace or a mixture of the two with our hybrid teams. With…

Business agility was the hallmark of successful companies in 2020. Also known as organizational agility, it’s a company’s ability to respond to changing conditions and a measure of how adaptive, flexible, and creative a business is in the face of a changing environment. The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a paradigm shift and changed the way we…

There is a ton of misconceptions floating around the internet about what it really means to have a productive workday. It is often misconstrued as a state of constantly being engaged at work – like a busy bee in a beehive.  Yet, if we were to dive deep into value generation, we come to realize…