From Gallup's 2024 State of the Global Workplace Report:
The hard job of managing people has gotten even harder in recent years.
New demands for worker flexibility in the remote and hybrid workplace and increased risk of employee mental health problems add to the already difficult job of managing. In 2023, Gallup found one in five employees reported feeling loneliness, anger, or sadness during a lot of the previous day, and four in 10 felt a lot of stress.
Managers already have many responsibilities such as carrying out leadership initiatives, keeping up to date with customer and product needs, monitoring time and expenses, performance management, and training. But their role of inspiring people has never been more urgent. They are uniquely positioned to know each employee’s specific needs, career goals and work-life situation.
You can build your managers role awareness, engagement and capacity with the Everything DiSC Management profile either on the Catalyst platform or through traditional training. DM me for more info or a demo.
2023 Wiley Annual Report on the State of the Workplace
Wiley Workplace Intelligence does ongoing research about the state of our workplaces and here are the top 10 takeaways from their 2023 Annual Report:
1. People are optimistic about the future of their organization. In addition, a large majority of respondents also shared that managing the well-being of their people while achieving results continues to be a priority.
2. Communication is the most important quality in a leader. It's clear that there is a need for more communication and relationship building skills in order to increase psychological safety across all organizational levels.
3. Communication has a direct impact on engagement. The frequency and kind of communication in your organization has a direct impact on the engagement, morale, and productivity of your people.
4. Individual contributors feel less safe than executives taking risks at work. A psychologically safe environment as defined by Amy Edmonson of Harvard B-School, is an environment where we feel comfortable taking risks, expressing ideas and concerns, asking questions, and admitting mistakes without fear of negative consequences.
5. Generations have more in common than not. Surprisingly, respondents largely feel understood by other generations regardless of the generation they belong to.
6. Managers lack training on how to manage conflict. Only 57% of managers reported receiving training around conflict management.
7. Upskilling employees fills the widening skills gap. Most organizations in the study didn't have a clearly identified process for identifying current skills gaps. But, almost half (42%) reported that technical skills were the most critical missing "hard" skills with interpersonal skills following at 36%.
8. Where you work doesn't impact organizational culture. Many organizations made a return-to-office push in 2023. There were concerns about the impacts of remote work on organizational culture and many companies moved from completely remote to hybrid models or required a full return to the office. This research found that location doesn’t have as big of an impact as we might expect when it comes to creating a positive workplace culture. Instead, we found that feeling connected and experiencing a sense of belonging is more critical to creating a positive culture than simply occupying the same physical space.
9. AI is not ready to replace humans when it comes to learning and development. Using AI for administrative tasks increases efficiency but knowing people seek human connection when learning, L & D practitioners should consider ways to continue meeting that need while incorporating technological advances into their practice.
10. Well-being positively impacts performance. Balancing employee satisfaction and productivity ranked the highest, and the increased focus on well-being positively impacted performance throughout these organizations.
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How Management has Changed Since Covid-19
In an Oct. 2023 Forbes article, Anupam Satyasheel outlines how management has changed since Covid-10 and how future-minded, thoughtful organizations have embraced these changes:
1. Remote Work and Flexibility. Some companies insisted workers return to the office after the pandemic, but other realized employees were happier, more productive, and more willing to participate in company culture remotely.
2. Emphasis on Employee Well-Being. Managers who genuinely ask how their employees are doing will gain their trust and confidence, and know that employee well-being amounts to company well-being.
3. Digital Transformation. We can't forget that employee are the operators of the increased technology we see. Good management encourages online interactions and creates digital experiences for employees.
4. Remote Team Building and Leadership. In a remote work environment, team bonding is not naturally cultivated. This needs to be an intentional effort by managers to maintain morale.
5. Talent Acquisition and Retention. Hiring and retaining talent has become a different effort because interviewing is often remote and managers don't have the bandwidth to respond to every job application. In terms of retaining talent, managers should be proactive with department and team meetings, check-ins and continuous team building.
Our Five Behaviors Personal and Team Development profiles/facilitated conversations can be done virtually or in-person and create a language and connection that's not easily achieved otherwise. DM me for more info or a demo!
Upgrade your Everything DiSC Certification!
If you are already certified in Everything DiSC Workplace or Everything DiSC Management, did you know we are offering an upgrade to Everything DiSC Certification which includes all profiles and the new Catalyst platform?
Upon successful completion of the course exam, you will earn the credential of Everything DiSC® Certified Practitioner and it only costs $995.
Pre-requisites: All participants must have already completed an Everything DiSC® Workplace or Everything DiSC® Management Certification course.
During this course,you will:
-Discover Everything DiSC on Catalyst and how it enhances the delivery of DiSC.
-Explore how to build custom solutions and deliver impactful DiSC experiences with Catalyst using Workplace, Agile EQ™, and Management content.
-Demonstrate and reinforce their understanding of the DiSC model, theory, research, and key principles.
-Connect and engage with other Everything DiSC practitioners, sharing expertise and building community.
It's a 1-week course with approximately 10-12 hours of learning. This includes two live, instructor-led sessions (2 hours each) and self-directed asynchronous work.
Course dates are below on this site - just click on “certifications for you”, then “New! Everything DiSC Certification Upgrade”.
Use this simple and powerful leadership development tool!
If you're looking for a simple yet powerful leadership development tool, here it is: Everything DiSC Work of Leaders®. The content and related profile lays out a clear path for helping leaders at all levels make the connection between their DiSC® style and leadership. Bringing together best practices from 300 experts in over 150 organizations, the important work of the most prominent scholars, and over four years of additional research and development, this all-inclusive classroom and online program approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship. With one unified model of leadership—vision, alignment, and execution—it focuses on helping leaders understand their own leadership styles and how their tendencies influence their effectiveness in specific leadership situations.
Your participants will...
-Recognize the priorities and tendencies, based on their own DiSC style, that shape their approach to the fundamental work of leaders: creating a vision, building alignment around that vision, and championing execution of the vision
-Explore in detail how to play to their strengths and overcome challenges to improve their leadership effectiveness
-Identify strategies to develop preferred behaviors based on context-specific best practices
The Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® Profile is a research-validated, online assessment that produces a 23-page leader-specific profile report providing detailed context-specific feedback based on the three-step Vision, Alignment, and Execution Model and the three drivers associated with each step. This report delves deep into what steps leaders can take to increase the behaviors linked to the essential best practices of leadership.
The Facilitation Toolkit gives you five 60-90-minute modules, including fully-scripted facilitation dialogue to use with experiential learning activities and thought-provoking group discussions.
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Come to a thought-provoking webinar!
In the landscape of organizational change, the focus is often on strategies, systems, and structures. However, the deeply personal experience of how organizational changes impact their most valuable asset—their people— is often overlooked. Fortunately, organizations have a powerful change management resource at their fingertips—their managers.
Unlocking a manager’s potential doesn’t just happen. Managers need tools to improve interactions, build teams, and navigate the messy middle. Fortunately, many of your organizations already have access to a
powerful tool that will help your managers reach their full potential—Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™. Join Dr. Mark Scullard, Sr. Director of Product Innovation, Wiley Assessment Brands, to learn how people process change and what managers can do to meet their unique needs. Sign up today to help your managers bring out the best in their people during times of change. In this 60-minute webinar, you will learn:
ꞏ The emotional complexities of change
ꞏ The uncharted role managers play as navigators of change
ꞏ How Everything DiSC can help managers bring out the best in their people, teams, and organizations
This webinar is offered at two different times:
ꞏ1. October 26, 2023, 10–11 am Chicago (4–5 pm London)
or
ꞏ2. December 7, 2023, 1–2 pm Chicago (7–8 pm London)
Contact me to register!
Hire the right people in this buyers market!
Find the right people for your job openings and improve onboarding, teamwork and retention with PXT Select™. This is powerful selection assessment that measures a candidate’s cognitive abilities, behaviors, and interests and equips your hiring managers with easy-to-understand information about the candidate, as well as providing intuitive questions to strengthen the interview process.
One assessment produces a suite of reports to help you select, onboard, coach, and develop employees:
o Comprehensive Selection Report
o Multiple Positions Report
o Multiple Candidates Report
o Team Report
o Manager-Employee Report
o Individual’s Feedback Report
o Individual’s Graph
o Coaching Report
o Performance Model Report
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New 360 Feedback Tool!
If you see the value of 360 feedback to develop teamwork, leadership development and self-awareness, I strongly recommend this product and this publisher - I've used their previous product for over 20 years and it's customizable and leads to great results.
Plan to attend the July 13 webinar, 360 Feedback: Its Exciting Future is Now, featuring the founders of Grow Strong Leaders—Meredith Bell, Denny Coates, Ph.D., and Paula Schlauch.
Denny will describe the innovations that have expanded the power of 360 feedback for assessment and development.
Meredith will pull back the curtain on the new online GSL 360 program. You’ll see the dramatic innovations that make it even more user-friendly for administrators, raters, and feedback recipients. It’s so easy that no certification is required!
Reserve your spot now for this one-hour event on Thursday, July 13, at either 10:00 am ET or 4:00 pm ET:
https://lnkd.in/gT3cU6Ri. When they ask who sent you, tell them me!
The webinar will be recorded, and the replay will be shared afterward, so be sure to register even if you can’t attend the live event.
I hope to see you there!
It's a buyer's market out there.
Hiring people who want to work, who are committed to your organization’s goals, and who work well within your culture is today’s challenge for lots of reasons. So focusing on tools that cause the hiring process to be more thoughtful and exact, cause people to understand each other quickly as they are onboarded and assigned to various teams, and building fast and effective teamwork will make you and employer of choice. Call me to learn more about these tools.
Develop your leaders in place with this personalized tool
Do you have leaders who need an introduction to what the leadership role involves? Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® lays out a clear path for helping leaders at all levels make the connection between their DiSC® style and leadership. With one unified model of leadership—vision, alignment, and execution—it focuses on helping your leaders understand their own leadership styles and how their tendencies influence their effectiveness in specific leadership situations.
Participants Take-Aways
-Recognize the priorities and tendencies, based on their own DiSC style, that shape their approach to the fundamental work of leaders: creating a vision, building alignment around that vision, and championing execution of the vision
-Explore in detail how to play to their strengths and overcome challenges to improve their leadership effectiveness
-Identify strategies to develop preferred behaviors based on context-specific best practices
The Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® Profile is a research-validated, online assessment. The 23-page leader-specific profile report provides detailed context-specific feedback based on the three-step Vision, Alignment, and Execution Model and the three drivers associated with each step. Strong visuals and illustrations, including 18 behavioral continua, delve deep into what steps leaders can take to increase the behaviors linked to the essential best practices of leadership. It is also easily customizable - you can remove or rearrange pages, customize the profile title, or print selected sections. And there is a Facilitation Kit to help you structure your delivery approach and timing.
Message me for a demo! #leadership #everythingdisc
Hire, manage and retain your best associates.
The PXT Select suite of solutions provides you with accurate, objective, and reliable data so you can confidently hire, manage, and retain productive employees. With the right people in the right roles, developed to their full potential, you can build a high-performing culture where people thrive.
With PXT Select™, we specialize in a comprehensive suite of talent management solutions designed to help you hire smarter and engage your workforce to drive business results.
PXT Select at a Glance
• Over 20 years of experience
• Over 42K organizations assisted
• Presence in 93+ countries worldwide
Whether you’re filling an open role, designing effective teams, identifying talent gaps, or developing your leaders, the PXT Select suite of assessments helps you fuel the growth of your people and your business.
Data from our assessments helps you understand:
• How people think and solve problems
• How they work and interact with their coworkers, managers, and customers
• What motivates and interests them
• Attitudes toward important performance-related issues.
By understanding your employees at a deeper level, you understand how to help them thrive. And when your employees thrive, they experience a greater sense of engagement and interest in their work. In the end, that leads to a healthier work environment, greater productivity, and an increase in your organization’s bottom line.
Build Agility. Develop Emotional Intelligence.
The more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous our working environments become, the more critical a truly agile workforce is to success. Each day, we’re called to make progress faster, while pivoting on short notice. To stand firm in our ideas while remaining open to new perspectives. Staying agile demands that we develop and use our emotional intelligence (EQ)—a level of sophistication that we’ve never demanded before. Sound daunting? It doesn’t have to be.
Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™ is a classroom training and personalized learning experience that teaches your teammates to read the emotional and interpersonal needs of a situation and respond accordingly. By combining the personalized insights of DiSC® with active emotional intelligence development, they discover an agile approach to workplace interactions and learn to navigate outside their comfort zone, empowering them meet the demands of any situation.
Pairing their personalized, 26-page Everything DiSC Agile EQ Profile with a half-day facilitation session, your learners will:
1. Discover the instinctive mindsets that shape their responses and interactions
2. Recognize opportunities to stretch beyond what comes naturally to them
3. Take action to become more agile in their approach to social and emotional situations
The result is an emotionally intelligent workforce that can support your thriving agile culture.
Keep employee engagement high to retain your best and
As you know, employee engagement is a foundational component to workplace outcomes. If you want to talk about wellbeing, manager development, performance (and more), you also have to talk about employee engagement. Why? Because every conversation a manager has with an employee affects their engagement -- and engaged employees perform better, which differentiates you from your competitors and allows you to keep your best people.
Because managers are so critical to engagement especially now, here is a tool to build their capacity to keep engagement high. The Everything DiSC Management profile and related facilitation can develop your managers to make the most of your organization’s employee engagement.
#employeeengagement #everythingdisc #management
Deliver Effective Onboarding in a Fast-Changing Work Environment
Companies today are in the midst of transforming their business models, restructuring their teams, and rethinking how they service their customers. Many have also permanently integrated hybrid or remote work arrangements, moving away from an office-only structure. Employees who work in these environments, where there is constant change and poor communication, are experiencing high stress levels and burnout. Many are reacting by Quiet Quitting or pulling back from collaborating and communicating with their colleagues.
What would it be like as a new hire starting out in this kind of environment, when more than ever, job seekers are demanding a great deal from potential employers as far as culture, work/life balance, and support from their managers? This scenario is happening to millions of new hires all over the world. What's clear is this: Coming off the pandemic and The Great Resignation, the number of new hires, as well as the stress associated with starting a new job, has skyrocketed. How are HR teams dealing with this unprecedented number of new hires and how can they adjust their processes so that people don’t fall through the cracks?
The struggle to keep new hires is real: almost 30% of people will quit a new job within 90 days. According to Gallup, the estimated cost to replace an employee ranges between one-half to two times their annual salary. That’s a huge and recurring hit to the bottom line.
In this time of uncertainty, we wanted to know if HR teams were able to deliver an impactful and effective onboarding experience to new hires, one that makes them want to stay well beyond the onboarding period.
Reality of the New Hire Experience
We surveyed 6,000 people through Wiley Workplace Research, of which 1,266 were new hires, to learn more about what people experienced when they started a new job. What we found is that the job market continues to be highly competitive. Given that nearly 25% of those we surveyed said they started with a new company in the last year, HR professionals and managers have been busy.
According to our findings, 75% of respondents said that some form of onboarding happened at their new company. For more than half of new employees, this experience lasted a week or less. The process varied greatly, too. Some received zero direction or guidance while others received a highly structured and planned experience. Critically, although almost all felt welcomed and accepted, only 38% finished their onboarding experience with an understanding of what was expected of them.
Onboarding in a Rapidly Changing Workplace
Consistency is key to delivering on expectations and ensuring that every new hire has a meaningful first experience that makes them want to stay. In fast-changing environments, this can be more challenging. To be successful, today’s onboarding process must be agile but well planned. So how can HR professionals adapt?
One thing we know for certain is that employees want a positive work culture and an impactful employee experience. Your responsibility for this starts the minute you extend an offer to a candidate and continues throughout the employee’s tenure.
Make sure there is a hiring and onboarding process in place that is more than a simple orientation and communicate it to everyone who will be involved. Hiring managers, for example, might need training on how to conduct interviews. Frontline managers should also know how to assess the candidate to identify skills gaps and recommend individual training so that the new arrival feels confident and prepared for their role. This will ensure a seamless experience that gets the new hire ready for what’s next.
HR should also be clear to hiring teams and frontline managers about what the new hire was offered so that expectations are met, and promises are delivered. In a hectic or fast-paced workplace, this information can be missed. Misunderstandings will leave a bad impression and can lead to the new hire feeling misled or duped about their new job or company. People want to work in a role where expectations meet reality, and this is one way to make certain that happens.
Ultimately, your goal is to deliver a meaningful and individualized onboarding experience that not only helps new employees acclimate to the company, but also lays the groundwork for a positive work experience long term.
Pre-Boarding: Take this opportunity to connect with your new employees before they start to create a sense of belonging. This can include sending a care package, proposing a meet and greet, and keeping them updated via emails or video calls. This is also the perfect time to assign a buddy so that they have someone to reach out to who’s not in HR.
Orientation: This phase starts on their first official day on the job and should focus on logistical and administrative processes and procedures. Employee handbooks, paperwork, and mandatory training should help with acclimation. Let the new employee know how to give feedback and ask for help or support as they navigate their onboarding experience.
Foundation Building: This is the time to set the new hire up for success in their role by communicating about the company culture, brand values, opportunities for personal and professional development, and most importantly, how their role impacts the organization. Ensure your new hires know how to engage with their team effectively to jumpstart collaboration. Tools like Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors can help set the foundation and continuously reinforce your culture.
Community Building: The key here is to help the new arrival feel welcomed, supported, and included within their team and the company. Providing opportunities to socialize with colleagues, build relationships, and take part in team bonding will help them connect on a deeper level, fostering better team collaboration and communication. For remote or hybrid employees, virtual activities will increase a sense of comradery and prevent a feeling of isolation or disconnectedness.
Post-Boarding: This phase is particularly important if your company is going through major changes or where employees feel burnt out and have high stress. While the onboarding process is officially over, HR teams should seek feedback on the new hire’s experience to confirm you delivered what was promised. Stay in touch to provide any additional support, information, training, or guidance if necessary. HR can also ask for feedback from hiring teams and frontline managers to continually improve and refine the process.
As you can see, this multi-prong approach requires more time and a detailed plan to successfully implement, but it is critical to go the extra mile in an environment of burnout and rapidly shifting priorities. Ideally, the onboarding process should be a month or longer, starting before the first day of work. This should be expanded in a workplace where significant changes are happening, or employee morale is low.
Whatever the environment, HR professionals and hiring managers should always focus on giving new arrivals a memorable and lasting experience that feels tailored to their individual needs. New hires are seeking an onboarding process that focuses on building connections and aligning with the culture, all while learning about how their role affects the company and contributes to outcomes.
Make Learning part of your Everyday Organizational Culture
Everything DiSC® offers a suite of personal development learning experiences that measure our preferences and tendencies based on the DiSC® model. This simple yet powerful model describes four basic styles: D, i, S, and C, and serves as the foundation for the Everything DiSC® Application Suite.
Every Application: Participants receive personalized insights that deepen their understanding of self and others, making workplace interactions more enjoyable and effective. The result is a more engaged and collaborative workforce that can spark meaningful culture improvement in your organization. Each profile is powered by 40+ years of research, uses adaptive testing and sophisticated algorithms to generate precise and personalized insights for each participant. Participants receive this personalized content using the DiSC model and gain insights on their personal preferences and tendencies as well as relating to and working with others. They leave with actionable strategies for improving interactions and, ultimately, performance.
The Follow-Up Tools: Each profile has follow-up tools to allow participants to go deeper into their DiSC style, provide real-world tips for connecting with colleagues, and help them gain insight into their team or department’s DiSC culture. This makes learning ongoing and useful, and not just a training session.
The Everything DiSC® Application Suite:
WORKPLACE: Engage every individual in building more effective relationships at work
AGILE EQ™: Develop the emotional intelligence necessary to build a thriving agile culture
MANAGEMENT: Teach managers to successfully engage, motivate, and develop their people
PRODUCTIVE CONFLICT: Harness the power of conflict by transforming destructive behavior into productive responses
WORK OF LEADERS® Create impactful leaders through the process of Vision, Alignment, and Execution
SALES Provide salespeople with the skills to adapt to customers’ preferences and expectations.
Interested in building an engaged culture with high retention? Get DiSC Certified!
Everything DiSC® Certification offers you a proven way to create a lasting impact on individual and organizational performance.
In this two-week course combining live, instructor-led sessions with self-guided online learning, you will build your confidence and expertise in delivering impactful DiSC learning experiences that help people work better together. Upon successful completion of the course work (including a score of 80% or above on the final Certification exam), you will earn the credential of Everything DiSC Certified Practitioner—signaling proven competence in shaping a high-performing, collaborative culture, knowledgeable in the language of DiSC.
Just click on “Certifications for You” at the top of this site, then “New! Everything DiSC Certification” and you will see the dates in 2022-23 that are still available. Spots go fast so let me know asap. Then after I confirm a spot is available you can purchase your registration by clicking on Products, then Facilitator Certification and choose the one led by Wiley. If you have 5+ people wanting to get certified, I can lead it at a time convenient to you, so just let me know that.
Leading with Confidence: Top Ten Tips Managers Need to Drive Success
Managers are key to engagement and retention - as the adage says, people don’t leave their job, they leave their manager. So what can managers do to attract and retain their best talent now? This is a summary of an ebook published by Wiley - email me if you want a copy!
Develop yourself. If you understand who you are, what your strengths are, and how to lead yourself (self-management), then you set yourself up to lead effectively.
Set an example people can’t resist following. The global workforce has changed, which means a paycheck every 2 weeks isn’t enough to get the best effort out of increasingly detached employees. People want to know their work matters - they want a vision that compels them to give their effort to achieve a seemingly insurmountable goal.
Understand that communication is key. If you want to engage the people you lead, then make yourself available to them. Even in the age of social distancing and remote work, find ways to connect with your employees one-on-one on a more emotional level in a group setting. It’s during stressful times that people need the support of their managers the most.
Help the team see the big picture. It’s easy to get lost in the work we do as individuals and forget what we’re accomplishing in the larger world. To reconnect your team with the purpose behind their actions, take time to explain how their assignments and projects fit into the company’s larger goals, reputation, success, and bottom line.
Encourage feedback. Research shows that inspiring, charismatic leaders regularly gather ideas, opinions, and suggestions from the individuals they work with. Make it a point to seek input from people who hold back in group meetings, and after you hear feedback, reiterate one of their points and thank them for their contribution.
Don’t underestimate the power of recognition. Giving out regular recognition provides an effective way to motivate employees. Make it direct, specific, sincere, and simple. Accompany recognition with a benefit or reward, personalize it, and make recognizing achievement everyone’s responsibility.
Act with decisiveness. Employees will gain more respect for you if you confidently and consistently assert your influence and then stand by your decisions as long as they remain within reason.
Create an environment of constant learning and development. Learning incentivizes people to stay with an organization. If they are learning and sharpening skills that can help them earn more, get their dream job or get promoted; they’re going to want to make the most of that opportunity which means staying with your organization.
Provide the professional guidance that your team wants. Be the manager who’s also the leader and mentor people want to be around so they find more incentive to work harder for you and stay with your company.
Exercise patience with yourself. Developing strong managerial skills takes time - seek guidance from colleagues, your own manager, and your professional network when you need it. In the same way you give your employees the benefit of the doubt with the mistakes they make, do the same for yourself. And remember, you’ve got this.
The PXT Select assessment helps you as a manger by gathering accurate, objective, and reliable data so you can confidently hire, manager, develop and retain productive employees and effective leaders. Contact me for a demo!
Make hiring decisions based on data not instinct
Hiring managers and employees alike are susceptible to unconscious bias and may unknowingly make decisions and choices, both personally and organizationally, that can exclude certain individuals based on a single characteristic or trait. In this way, unconscious bias could derail your organization’s ability to be diverse, equitable, and successful. The stressful experience of being understaffed can leave many organizations feeling dire, making speed the predominant criteria in the selection process. This leaves proactive efforts to hire for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) placed lower on the ladder of considerations. But choosing this route not only increases your organization’s risk of unconscious bias but may also have a long-term effect on your ability to attract and retain quality talent.
In order to better understand the impact of unconscious bias on hiring and selection and its long-term impact in the workplace, Wiley Professional Learning surveyed over 5,000 working professionals. Survey respondents included individual contributors (43%) and managers or other leadership positions (57%). About half of all respondents had some involvement in the hiring process, with managers representing the largest portion of this group. In The State of Hiring 2022 Report, you will see Wiley’s findings and see the actions they recommend that you can take to combat unconscious bias in hiring and selection. Reach out to me to see this report!
The water we are swimming in and how we can adapt
Based on Deloitte, Gallup and McKinsey analyses, here is what we are facing now in our organizations:
•77% of managers don’t believe in their talent acquisition strategy
•77% of managers don’t believe in their talent acquisition strategy
•73% of employees aren’t engaged
•70% of team members don’t feel considered
•Organizations need help finding and engaging their people.
•Gig economy: by 2020 40% of all workers will be contract
•Skill sets needed in 2030: decrease in basic cognitive, small increase in higher cognitive, large increase in social/emotional
•Continuous learning needed
•Shifting organizational structure – matrixed organizations
•Agile systems, processes needed
• Rapid pace of change
•Disruptive forces
•Globalization
•Demographics diverse in country of origin, age, ethnicity, culture, gender, language
•Technology advancing rapidly
This results in things people in organizations have to do differently now:
•Change direction quickly
•Communicate effectively
•Accept and work well with differences of perspective
•Form effective teams quickly
•Create teamwork with nontraditional arrangements
•Define selves by effectiveness not by title
•Create psychological safety so good ideas can surface
•Create personal connection amid increased technology
•Hire using more than resume – fit now more important
•Share power and information
We have tools to enable you and your organization to adapt and be successful! See our products on this site for more information and call me with your questions or to order!
Keeping Relationships at the Center in the Digital Age
We are now in the Digital Age, or what is called the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which presents us with a growing demand for responsibility and accountability among leaders, as well as systems, technology and entrepreneurial leadership, adaptive leadership and a need for leaders to shape societies. A recent Accenture white paper recommends three questions we must consider as we enable our workers in this Age:
Is the changing nature of work in production continuously being anticipated? With skills now having a half-life of 5 years, leaders must make proactive decisions about their workforce today.
Is the ability to attract and engage the best talent by tailoring development initiatives for workers improving? Global executives think only one-fourth of their workforce is ready to work with intelligent machines. Organizations increased spending on intelligent technology by over 60% five years ago, yet only 3% planned to significantly increase the investment in training the following year.
Is the broader enablement environment and ecosystem being reshaped for the workforce? 67% of people want business leaders to take the lead on policy change, instead of waiting for government.
Transformational leadership behaviors that support people at the center include
inspiring with empathy and vision
innovating with purpose
advocating humanity, trust and transparency
collaborating across the ecosystem
orchestrating for agility and growth
embracing social responsibility.
