Culture Interviews: Why We Should Focus On People’s Work Personality
Culture interviews often focus more on skills, experience, and other non-behavioral characteristics than on how candidates go about their work. Here’s the importance of learning about people’s “work personality.”
Grace Under Fire: How to Handle Departures to Build Team Confidence
Departures are inevitable. As managers, how gracefully we handle someone leaving the organization determines how effective the rest of the team will be and how much they will trust us.
Leadership Storytelling: The Fine Line Between Motivation and Manipulation
Storytelling is a tool leaders use to help employees connect to their work, help people coordinate together, and build the future of the company. However, they can also use it in manipulative or abusive ways.
Vanessa Druskat’s Team Emotional Intelligence Model
What makes a group of talented people a trusting, high-performing team? What norms would allow them to self-manage? These are some of the questions Vanessa Druskat answers with her Team Emotional Intelligence Model.
Blame, the Losing Dance
CEO roles are hard to do well. Like any dance, it requires all participants to be in sync but especially requires the lead to pay attention to how their leadership is being received.
Diversity & Inclusion: A Recruiting Conversation with Sarah Noyes
To get past the Diversity & Inclusion aspiration, leaders need to be intentional in building organizations that can leverage everyone’s uniqueness and talents.