Team Building & Alignment

Dec

Commonly Confused Words That Carry a High Career Cost – Part 1

A homonym is a word that sounds roughly the same as another word, but is very different in meaning. The… Continue Reading

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Tagged: alignment, assess, assessment, behavioral fit, behavioral trait, communication, cultural fit, DiSC, employee engagement, employer, engagement, ethics, fit, motivation, Myers Briggs, personality, poor fit, relationships, transparency, values, work ethic, workplace

Oct

Strategies for Speculative Job Applications

What is a Speculative Job Application? A speculative job application occurs whenever someone applies to an employer for a job… Continue Reading

Posted in Career Search Tools & Education, Dynamic Training News, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: candidate, candidate database, employer, employment, essential duties, Google Alert, hiring manager, HR manager, informational interview, interview, job, job application, job description, online application, posting, research, resume, target position

Sep

How to Assess Your Fit With a Prospective Employer

Remember these words: The comfort of your fit within an organization remains long after the excitement of a new job… Continue Reading

Posted in Assessments & Evaluations, Career Search Tools & Education, Dynamic Training News, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Jul

The Two Wisest Training Investments

Can you prove the Return on Investment that your training initiatives deliver? Ask your organization’s president if he or she… Continue Reading

Posted in Dynamic Training News, Improve Sales & Profits, Leadership Development & Training, Performance Management, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: brand value, competitive, customer contact, customer satisfaction, customers, decision making, engagement, expenses, manager, margins, multiplier, outperform, payback, performance, profits, recurring revenues, results, revenue, ROI, sales, supervisor, training

Jun

If You Haven’t Coached Them, You Haven’t Earned the Right to Lead Their Performance Evaluation Discussion

Performance evaluations have earned a bad rap, not because they are bad, but because they are ineffective without the daily… Continue Reading

Posted in Assessments & Evaluations, Latest Leadership Posts, Leadership Development & Training, Performance Management, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: accountability, being valued, coach, expectations, feedback, master, motivation, motivational climate, observe, performance, Performance management, performance-appraisal, performance-evaluation, performance-review, self-assessment, set expectations, skills, teach

May

Don’t Be That Guy

Many a promising career has been unintentionally cut short because of one of these mistakes that never should have been… Continue Reading

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Apr

Advancing Your Career With Your Current Employer

A career search best practice is to position yourself for the promotions your employer will make at some time in… Continue Reading

Posted in Career Search Tools & Education, Leadership Development & Training, Performance Management, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: assignment, career, customer, doer, employee, employer, GEPA, giver, integrity, leader, motive, patient, promotable, promotion, respect, selfless, solution, solver, taker, task, teammate, trust

Jan

Five Things You Must Accomplish Before Age 25

The first 25 years of a person’s life is supposed to be the foundation-building years, where youth grows into adulthood… Continue Reading

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Tagged: career, community, employer, employment, internship, learning, networking, passion, personal network, profession, serving, skills, social media, social network, talents, trust, values, volunteer

Dec

When Good Employers Make Bad Hires

“A candidate’s perceived qualifications improve with the level of desperation you have to fill an open position.” Wardell’s Paradigm Thirty-one… Continue Reading

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Tagged: A-player, bad hire, candidate, candidate bench, desperation hiring, hire, hiring, interview, interviewing, job opening, manager, open position, recruiting, talent

Aug

Think Inside the BARP-COTT℠ Box to Optimize Performance

Performance management is all about helping people achieve their potential. Regardless of their function, all employees in your organization can… Continue Reading

Posted in Dynamic Training News, Latest Leadership Posts, Leadership Development & Training, Performance Management, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: achieve, attitude, behavior, change, coach, coaching, counsel, counseling, customers, innovate, interacting, learning, optimal, optimal performance, optimize, performance, potential, results, self-discovery, team, time management, trust