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The essential steps to developing a highly effective team

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The most effective teams seem to anticipate what each person – and the business as a whole – needs. They support each other at every step, uncovering creative solutions to tough challenges, and they often make it look easy

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Building a culture of team empowerment

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The most successful teams are empowered. But creating a workplace where everyone is able to take charge can be tricky. How can you ensure productivity, pointing everyone in the same direction, and avoid absolute chaos?

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The power of team synergy: unlocking success together

10 min read

Despite its reputation as a corporate buzzword, team synergy remains not just relevant, but highly sought after as more teams look for ways to improve remote or hybrid work.

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Leadership tools every manager should be using

11 min read

Great leaders aren’t born – they’re developed and molded. It takes a good deal of training, trial and error, and some well-earned experience (not to mention a willingness to continually learn).

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The power of team motivation

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Motivation is an ongoing process featuring both big, dramatic moments, and a lot of smaller, more subtle ones. Understanding all these different ways motivation can work is essential for keeping your team productive, happy, and engaged.

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How to become an effective manager: 11 proven strategies shared by our experts

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Employees who report to effective managers are over 15 times more likely to be high performers. They’re also more than three times more likely to stay at their job.

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Great leaders must make an effort to continuously learn to control their ego.

New manager training tips and strategies to master the art of management

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What does it take to be an effective manager? It’s a question many in the management field have been asking, with increasing urgency, over the past few years.

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The 6 essential leadership practices for success

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What is a good leader actually doing that makes them so effective? Although good leadership is certainly a talent, it can still be taught and developed.

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Talent optimization goes mainstream

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We defined the talent optimization discipline in 2018. Since then, the concept has evolved to serve as a revolutionary link between business and people practices.

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10 key management skills that separate great managers

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Good managers take the time to hone a set of skills – ranging from hard and soft, technical and social, and so forth – that allow them to respond quickly, empathetically, and intelligently to a variety of situations.

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10 catalysts driving the employee energy crisis

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We’ve got a real issue on our hands. Understanding the factors driving the human energy crisis is essential to helping our employees recharge.

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Elevate your team: Proven strategies for improving team productivity

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Increasing productivity doesn’t have to cost a lot. It can be as simple as shifting a mindset, or providing the proper motivation.

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Halloween costume buyer’s guide: What to wear based on your Reference Profile

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Still need a costume for Halloween? We’ve got you covered. Learn what to buy (or make!) based on your PI Reference Profile.

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Why I named Bank of America the inaugural Talent Magnet benchmark winner

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In my work with executive and strategic HR teams, I try my best to reinforce a simple truth: Top talent always has a choice.

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How to attract top talent in our new world of work

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The disconnect between modern job seekers and would-be workplaces is due, in large part, to poor first impressions and underwhelming employer branding.

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How to set effective team goals

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Tips, strategies, and workplace examples of effective team goal-setting Setting effective team goals sounds simple enough. After all, we set goals for ourselves every day. Whether you’re writing down a to-do list or trying to accomplish something a little more long-term, setting a goal just means stating what you want to get done. So why…

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Building a high-performing team

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How do you build a high-performing team? Even the clearest business vision is lost without the right people in place. You certainly can’t build a high-performing team just by hiring a few people with glowing resumes. This holds true whether yours is an organization of five or 5,000, multinational or local. You can’t achieve your…

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Expand your knowledge of Black history with our BHM daily treasures.

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Join us as we reflect on a month of Black History At The Predictive Index, we believe equity goes hand in hand with empathy and education. The more we listen to and learn from our friends, colleagues, and neighbors, the better our world becomes.  Where there are lived experiences, there is learning. When you speak…

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Attracting top talent in 2023

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Attracting top talent in 2023 There’s no denying it: The employer-employee dynamic has flipped—maybe for good.  If you’re a hiring manager or business leader, you’ve probably seen it firsthand. Good candidates for key roles are scarce. They left jobs during The Great Resignation in no hurry to return, or they’re taking advantage of sudden supply-and-demand…

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Your guide to a hiring strategy that actually works

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Your guide to a hiring strategy that actually works When you look over candidates for a key open position, do you feel a sense of dread? When you find the perfect candidate, do you always seem to lose them? Or, when you finally hire someone, has their performance been underwhelming? It’s a common quandary in…

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What does it mean to have psychological safety in the workplace?

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What does it mean to have psychological safety in the workplace? What does the term “safety in the workplace” mean to you?  At first, it might evoke images of Wet Floor placards, or Caution: Hot Coffee labels. Maybe you get stressed out thinking about OSHA regulations. Not inconsequential stuff, but these more traditional markers only…

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