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

Contact me for more info and a demo!

Build engagement with these helpful profiles

The Gallup State of the Global Workplace Report for 2023 makes this important point: "Employee engagement does not mean happiness. If you are only measuring employee contentment, you are missing engagement. And the reality is that many corporate measures of engagement are really just measuring contentment. True engagement means your people are psychologically present to do their work. They understand what to do; they have what they need; and they have a supportive manager and a supportive team. They know why their work matters. They are work ready." (p. 10)

Having a supportive manager and a supportive team can be built using Everything DiSC® and Five Behaviors® profiles - they develop teamwork, personal awareness and ways to respond to others that keeps engagement and productivity high and tension low. Let me know how I can help your organization!

Using DiSC to cause meaningful results

With credit to my colleague Carol Horner, this shows how DiSC can be used to create meaningful results by strengthening employee commitment and engagement.

https://www.td.org/magazines/td-magazine/2023-best-award-winners-healthcare

The Five Behaviors® Personal and Team Development Solutions Together For the First Time!

We are excited to share that The Five Behaviors® Personal Development and Team Development solutions are available together in one facilitation kit for the first time ever. This incredible value provides everything you need to bring The Five Behaviors to everyone in your organization to build a culture of teamwork that drives results.

The new combined kit includes:
· Team Development for building more cohesive intact teams
    § One- and three-day facilitation guides with videos and activities
    § Customizable PowerPoint® slides with updated branding
    § Annotated Facilitator Reports
  · Personal Development for building a culture of teamwork starting at the individual level
    § Half-day facilitation guide with videos and activities
    § Customizable PowerPoint® slides with updated branding

Contact me to purchase the new combined kit.

Existing kit holders – we have great news! If you are already a Team Development or Personal Development kit holder, you can access both solutions, with the updated content, via the product registration site. Make sure you have registered your kit to gain access to the combined kit.

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!

Employee well-being is the new workplace imperative.

In Gallup’s 2022 State of the Global Workplace, one of findings is this: Employee wellbeing is the new workplace imperative.

Wellbeing and engagement interact with each other in powerful ways. When employees are engaged and thriving, they experience significantly less stress, anger and health problems. Unfortunately, most employees remain disengaged at work. In fact, low engagement alone costs the global economy $7.8 trillion. The relationship between wellbeing and engagement is vital because how people experience work influences their lives outside work, and overall wellbeing influences life at work.

Organizations need to think about the whole person, not just the worker. Leaders should:

-add wellbeing measurements to their executive dashboards

-prioritize employee wellbeing as part of their employer brand promise

Both Everything DiSC and Five Behaviors tools increase both wellbeing and engagement - message me for a demo!

Give yourself the gift of time and focus on you

We are looking forward to an awesome group of women 50+ forming in September for the NEXT retreat. If you want one of the last spots, visit https://nextchapterretreat.org/ and let us know you’re interested. The weekend, the group, the design, the time and the view are all a gift to yourself. Or, if you’re ready to register, click on “Products” here, then “NEXT retreat” and use PayPal to hold your spot.

Minimize Unconscious Bias in Your Hiring with this effective Tool.

It’s tricky to identify and counteract unconscious bias. In hiring and selection, unconscious bias can lead your organization to inadvertently overlook great candidates. Learn how to use data and a structured hiring process to reduce bias with the PXT Select suite of reports all based on one candidate profile.

Support your Agile Workforce

We can all see that our organizations have changed and hierarchical structures have been replaced by matrixed teamwork. It is more important than ever to build productive and satisfying working relationships to build retention, engagement and results! The Five Behaviors profiles are powerful tools to do this - let me know if you would like a demo or want to put it in place in your organization.

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

Create an engaged team culture with Everything DiSC on Catalyst now with Your Groups

Even the brightest teams struggle with different workstyles. What if you had the power to replace disjointed communication with cohesive teams and growing bottom lines? Now you do with Everything DiSC on Catalyst – now with Your Groups! It's the same content you know from Everything DiSC but on a platform that works with our hybrid work environments. Call me for more info or a demo.

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.

Make Teamwork your Strategic Focus

Many people see team building as a touchy-feely activity away from work. Actually, it is a critical strategy to achieve results. The Five Behaviors Suite of tools helps your organization introduce Patrick Lencioni’s model and relate it to their work, their personalities and their teams. You will see results almost immediately.

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.

We are now on multiple teams, we are working differently due to advances in technology and globalization, and we need to create cohesive teams quickly to enable results. This tool uses Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions model and applies it to each individual, who can then disperse the key takeaways throughout their organization.

The Five Behaviors Personal Development profile was designed specifically to work for individuals; participants do not all need to be part of the same team. Rather, participants can carry the takeaways of this program from one team to the next, enabling a culture of teamwork. Learners at all levels of an organization can benefit from this program and adopt its powerful principles, shape behaviors, and create a common language that empowers people to rewrite what it means to work together.

It can be delivered virtually or in person and each person's profile is personalized to them and how they show up on any team they are on. Call me for a demo or for more information.

Hiring the right people for the job is the most important gift you can give to the person hired, the team they're hired to be part of, their manager, and most importantly, your organization's results. This tool makes your hiring thoughtful and effective.

Build your sales force's versatility!

Everything DiSC® Sales is a classroom training and personalized learning experience designed to help salespeople successfully create customer-centric interactions that improve results. It teaches participants to stretch beyond their natural Sales style to more effectively adapt to their customers’ preferences and expectations— regardless of the customer’s unique buying style. The experience is sales-specific with in-depth information, including tips, strategies, and action plans to help salespeople become more effective.

The Everything DiSC Sales Profile focuses on:

• Understanding your DiSC® style

• Recognizing and understanding customer buying styles

• Adapting your sales style to your customer’s buying style

• How to adapt DiSC style to meet the customer’s needs The Profile

In the 23-page profile, participants explore their own sales style and how their strengths and challenges influence their selling behaviors. They’ll also learn to recognize the behaviors unique to each buying style and gain strategies to adapt their sales style to meet the needs of their customers, improving their effectiveness and success. The profile may be used on its own or with the companion facilitation; sold separately.

Call me for more information or for a demo profile!

Build your Impact Portfolio in 2023!

Build your professional portfolio in 2023 - earn your certification in The Five Behaviors®.  This prepares you to deliver engaging and impactful Five Behaviors® learning experiences that help build cohesive teams. In this two-week immersive experience that combines live, instructor-led sessions with self-guided online learning, you will: 

  -Deepen your understanding of The Five Behaviors model and key principles.

-Familiarize yourself with the full Five Behaviors® solution portfolio: Team Development and Personal Development.

-Explore how to build, customize, and deliver impactful Five Behaviors learning experiences to address unique team development training needs.

-Practice facilitation techniques while receiving feedback from peers in a supportive environment.

-Gain access to Wiley’s online training center, connecting you to course content that you can continue to access as a resource after the course concludes.

Upon successful completion of the exam, you will earn the credential of The Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner, signaling proven competence in shaping engaged, cohesive, and high-performing teams—and knowledgeable in the language of The Five Behaviors.

Courses begin in February and here are the first few:

1. Opens February 23, 2023. Live sessions 2/27, 3/1, 3/6 and 3/8 from 3 to 5pm EST.

2. Opens March 10, 2023. Live sessions 3/14, 3/16, 3/21 and 3/26 from 10am to 12pm EST.

3. Opens April 7, 2023. Live sessions 4/11, 4/13, 4/18 and 4/20 from 2 to 4pm EST.

#certification #teamwork

Register now at The Five Behaviors® Certification — Karen Geiger & Associates, inc.!

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