Eager for answers? Jump straight to the Q&A. Leadership expectations have evolved at a breakneck pace in the last six decades. Leaders once faced a fairly straightforward set of expectations, primarily driven by the bottom line. Now they navigate an uncertain business and global landscape while balancing individual…
Eager for answers? Jump straight to the Q&A. Working with teams can be a high-impact way to make a difference in an organization: increasing productivity, creating a more harmonious workplace culture, and improving the quality and clarity of communication. There’s often a big hurdle to overcome, however: interpersonal…
Eager for answers? Jump straight to the Q&A. Throughout a coaching career, you get to know dozens or even hundreds of clients. With each new coach/coachee relationship, there’s an “onboarding” period – a time when you and your client are learning how to understand each other, building a…
Coaching can have a powerful impact on an individual, no matter where they are in their career. And leveraging assessments as part of coaching can have some great benefits. It can also come with a few risks. In fact, when we polled attendees of a recent webinar about…
Last week, Andrew Rand and David Ringwood offered a webinar that took us through three key things to consider when making a career transition. Given the tight labor market – and the pressure people may be feeling to go where the grass is greener – it’s certainly a…
When you’re working with a client who is new to assessments, you may find yourself dealing with an understandable – but erroneous – reaction: celebrating high scores and lamenting low scores. And while years of academic test-taking may have trained us to associate high scores with success and…
Motivation plays a major role in the way we approach the world – and often, in the way we approach others. Not only do our motivations influence our own actions, they also color the way we interpret the actions of others. And when certain combinations collide, it can…
This post originally appeared on the blog in April 2020. Following an encore presentation of the webinar, we’re republishing the summary with added Q&A from the latest broadcast. Each of us takes a unique approach to the world; we have things that drive us, energize us, and attract…
Understanding your motivations is an eye-opening experience. While most of us think we have a pretty good handle on what makes us tick, true self-awareness is actually quite challenging to achieve. So sitting down with the results from a deeply personal psychometric like the Individual Directions Inventory™ often…
Looking for answers? Jump straight to the Q&A with our experts here. Careers are constantly in motion. In generations past, it was not unusual to spend decades at a single organization. These days, that is a rare pattern indeed. Even before the pandemic upended career plans for many,…