In the modern workplace, team members must navigate an environment that is in constant flux. That’s no easy task, and employees must be flexible, socially adept, and relationship-savvy in order to navigate interpersonal challenges and achieve collective gains within and across their teams. But solid teamwork doesn’t happen overnight, and it’s not necessarily an innate skill. Teamwork must be developed and practiced—and it requires the right framework in order to thrive. The Five Behaviors® Personal Development can be your solution for building a culture of teamwork. Call me for more info or a demo assessment!
Develop agility and emotional intelligence in your workforce!
Here's a valuable tool that helps your workforce be agile so they can make progress faster and pivot on short notice which is necessary now as our work environments become more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous 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.
The tool is Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™: a classroom training and personalized learning experience that teaches participants 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, participants 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 short 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.
Interested to learn more? Contact me to discuss how Everything DiSC Agile EQ can help your organization today.
The Five Behaviors® Unleash the Power of Teamwork Showcase
Learn a new way to "team" and empower your entire organization by attending our new virtual showcase on March 13, noon-1 pm and receive a FREE Personal Development assessment to try for yourself—DM me to register today! #TheFiveBehaviors
New! Get Advice Feature on Catalyst!
Building relationships with new colleagues can be daunting. Gain real-time tips and insight to approach your next workplace interaction (specific to you and to them) with confidence using Get Advice on Catalyst.
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Pay Attention to Your Managers this year!
Gallup’s 2024 Engagement Strategies Checklist points out that managers are more likely to be burned out and disengaged than their teams.
They recommend the following to make sure your managers are in a good place going into the new year:
• Begin with listening. Gallup has found that identifying key listening posts for managers makes their needs known and helps establish ways to support them as effective team leaders.
• Improve leadership communication. Only 3 in 10 managers strongly agree their supervisor keeps them informed about what is going on within their organization. By providing straightforward, regular communication about organizational goals and policies, managers can reinforce and communicate priorities more effectively to their teams.
• Train and develop managers. Only 48% of managers strongly agree that they currently have the skills needed to be exceptional at their job. Organizations must teach managers to have meaningful conversations at the right frequency with their teams. In fact, Gallup recommends having a meaningful weekly conversation with each team member.
Everything DiSC Management on Catalyst supports all of these goals - dm me for more info or a demo!
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Boost your workforce’s internal mobility - keep and retool your best!
LinkedIn Learning’s 2023 Workplace Report lays out a way to meet the survey results’ priority of sparking more internal mobility: L&D needs to connect with talent acquisition.
Within HR, ownership of internal mobility programs can be fuzzy, but it’s clear that L&D and Talent Acquisition can drive success by sharing insights and innovating to develop and source internal talent. Here’s how:
-Talent Acquisition develops a culture and process for internal hiring, prioritizing internal talent as a rich and promising hiring pool.
-L&D provides skill-building paths and resources, creating a pipeline of internal talent to match opportunities.
PXT Select provides data to identify skills and approaches of any employee, match them with internal job possibilities, and give L & D a roadmap for building relevant talent. Each assessment produces up to 13 reports than can be used over the life of the employee - from hiring to onboarding to manager relationships to team building to career development. DM me for a demo!
Understanding and Demonstrating Leadership
The word “leadership” is used so often and so generally that it is hard to know what it really means. This is a way to describe it - as 3 things people do to lead others: Vision, Alignment and Execution.
The Everything DiSC Work of Leaders assessment and related training helps us understand how well we do each of those, how we can improve each, and work most effectively with those we want to follow us. DM me for more info or a demo.
Introducing Your Groups on Catalyst!
Are some members of your team more focused on logic vs. feelings? Realities vs. possibilities? With Group Continua on Catalyst™, teams can quickly visualize the preferences and tendencies of the people they work with every day.
Group Continua offers a fun new way for teams to build connection and community using DiSC®. By plotting members along eight different behavioral continua, teams will uncover strengths, address challenges, and understand blind spots—ultimately helping them work (and perform!) better together.
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Our products enhance each of these 2024 trends!
DECEMBER 18, 2023
6 Workplace Trends Leaders Should Watch in 2024
BY BEN WIGERT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Many organizations are revising how they do business
Relationships between workers and organizations are changing
To win in 2024, leaders must rethink their approach to people management
In 2024, employers and employees are heading for a relationship reset.
This shift partly stems from changes in where and how people work. In 2019, 60% of remote-capable employees spent their week working fully on-site, whereas that figure has fallen to just 20% in 2023.
But that’s not the complete story. Nearly five in 10 U.S. employees work fully on-site in jobs that can’t be hybrid or remote. And Gallup’s research indicates that how employees are managed has about four times as much influence on employee engagement and wellbeing as their work location.
Essentially, it’s the relationships workers have -- with their coworkers, managers, leaders and organization -- that are significantly evolving. Many organizations are radically retooling the ways they do business, leaving many employees, including managers, stressed and disconnected.
For example, when Gallup asked managers what changes their organization made in 2023:
64% said employees were given additional job responsibilities
51% cited the restructuring of teams
42% reported budget cuts
To win in 2024, leaders should consider re-tooling their management strategies to better support the changing needs of their workforce and organizational culture. We recommend starting with a plan for assessing and addressing the following six trends that leaders should be paying attention to within their own organizations:
1. Global Worker Stress Remains at a Record High
Gallup’s recent State of the Global Workplace report revealed that employee engagement is rising worldwide. That’s good news. However, worker stress has remained at record high levels since the pandemic.
In the U.S. and Canada, employee stress is even higher, with 52% of employees reporting they experienced a lot of stress the previous day. This trend holds implications for peoples’ wellbeing at work and home, as well as their productivity and longevity.
As we move into 2024, which trend will win out: the ongoing rise in stress or the improvement in employee engagement?
Read: Globally, Employees Are More Engaged -- and More Stressed (gallup.com)
2. Engagement Is Slowly Recovering, With Some Areas for Improvement
Employee engagement levels in the U.S. started a slow crawl back in 2023 after a post-pandemic slump. But one particularly concerning trend is the decrease in employees who feel connected to their organization’s mission and purpose. This sense of connection inspires employees to go above and beyond basic job demands and push toward excellence. It also substantially boosts loyalty and retention.
Read: Are Remote Workers and Their Organizations Drifting Apart? (gallup.com)
3. Leaders Are Restoring Trust Yet Have Much Room for Improvement
Trust in organizational leadership significantly declined since the onset of the pandemic until it started to recover in 2023. Yet, today, only 23% of U.S. employees strongly agree that they trust the leadership of their organization. Undoubtedly, the hardships and disruptions of today’s new world of work have created headwinds for leaders. However, when leaders communicate clearly, lead and support change, and inspire confidence in the future, 95% of employees say they fully trust their leaders.
Read: Why Trust in Leaders Is Faltering and How to Gain It Back (gallup.com)
4. Managers Are Getting Squeezed
Changes to the workplace have hit managers especially hard. In 2023, managers were more likely than non-managers to be disengaged, burnt out and job hunting. They were also more likely to feel like their organization doesn’t care about their wellbeing and to say that they’re struggling with work-life balance.
These manager struggles are bad news for organizations because they trickle down to their teams. Managers serve as crucial connectors for team collaboration and effectiveness, accounting for 70% of the variance in employee engagement.
Overall, the “manager squeeze” largely comes from increased responsibilities and navigating numerous organizational changes. Gallup research shows that many managers now have more work to do on a tighter budget with new teams. And from a relationship standpoint, they often find themselves caught between aligning with new directives from leaders and meeting the changing expectations of their employees.
What’s certain is that managers will need more training and support to lead effectively in today’s new work environment riddled with new expectations for managers.
Read: The Manager Squeeze: How the New Workplace Is Testing Team Leaders (gallup.com)
5. Organizations Need a Long-Term Hybrid Work Strategy
Since mid-2022, work location trends for the U.S. workforce have largely stabilized, which implies that most employees are currently working where they expect to be working for the foreseeable future, based on employer communications. A separate survey of CHROs from Fortune 500 companies found that eight in 10 had no plans to decrease remote work flexibility in the next 12 months.
Given that hybrid work has become the norm for remote-capable workers and people have largely settled into their new routines, it’s time for leaders to optimize their hybrid workplace. That means doing things like creating a compelling workplace value proposition, empowering teams to collaborate more effectively, revising performance management systems, and training managers to be great hybrid coaches.
Read: The Future of the Office Has Arrived: It's Hybrid
6. Hybrid Culture Can Be Great -- If Done Right
Hybrid work offers the advantages of a more flexible work environment while also posing some unique challenges. In terms of advantages, hybrid workers have higher engagement, better overall wellbeing and lower turnover risk than fully on-site workers who are remote-capable -- which is good for business, too. Leaders and managers tend to recognize these benefits and report that hybrid work has reduced burnout, improved retention and expanded talent pools in their organization
At the same time, working apart more often and on different schedules creates some new obstacles. Organizations that plan to move forward with hybrid for the long term must thoughtfully create and fully commit to a strategy for how they best communicate, collaborate, build relationships and solidify their work culture.
Celebrating the development of leadership with you
Sending warm wishes for a happy, healthy, and restful holiday season with some focused teamwork in 2024!
Increase your sales using this tool!
Engage your salespeople to adapt their style to their prospects and customers to improve results! Everything DiSC® Sales 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 your 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
DM me for more info and increase your organization's sales now!
Make your hiring simpler and smarter!
PXT Select™ helps make the very human decisions about hiring simpler and smarter.
- It is a powerful selection assessment that measures a candidate’s cognitive abilities, behaviors, and interests. Assessment results equip organizations and hiring managers with easy to understand information about the candidate, and provides intuitive questions to strengthen the interview process.
- PXT Select measures a candidate’s thinking style, behavioral traits, and interests: three areas that impact an individual’s approach to situations in the workplace.
- PXT Select provides data about a candidate’s cognitive abilities, behavioral traits, and interests, providing organizations with insights to make smart, wellformed hiring decisions.
- PXT Select - One Powerful Assessment – A Suite of Reports. For the price of just one assessment, PXT Select’s suite of reports help you select, onboard, coach, and develop employees. PXT Select offers the following reports:
Comprehensive Selection Report. Is the candidate a good fit? This powerful report helps you make smarter hiring decisions with confidence. Featuring dynamic interview questions and tips on “what to listen for” with each candidate, this report gives you a meaningful edge in your hiring process.
Comprehensive Selection Report: Sales. This powerful report helps identify a candidates fit to a role. It features dynamic interview questions to help strengthen the overall hiring process. With a focus on sales, this report highlights critical sales practices and describes how a candidate might demonstrate them, helping you select the right salespeople for your organization.
Leadership Report. This report is designed for selection but may also be used for coaching or development purposes. It provides one candidate’s results presented in graph form and linked to narrative about their possible approach to six leadership skills commonly required of organizational leaders. Each of the six leadership skills are illustrated in relation to the candidates results. The report includes a candidate’s potential leadership strengths and challenges, as well as customized questions that can be used to interview the candidate or analyze their leadership potential.
Multiple Positions Report. What’s the best fit for a particular individual? Compare a candidate or employee to multiple jobs in your organization.
Multiple Candidates Report. Make hiring decisions with ease. Compare multiple candidates for a single position.
Team Report. See how a potential candidate fits an existing team or address your current team’s dynamic and strengths.
Manager-Employee Report.Discover how a manager and employee can work more effectively together.
Individual’s Feedback Report.Candidates can learn from PXT Select, too! This narrative report doesn’t reveal scores and is perfectly safe to share with applicants.
Individual’s Feedback Report: Sales. Candidates can learn from PXT Select, too! This participant report offers personalized feedback to the candidate or employee using common sales language and does not include critical sales practices.
Individual’s Graph. Are you more of a visual person? The graph illustrates a candidate’s results that you can view at a glance.
Coaching Report. Wish you had coaching advice tailored to each employee? This report gives you exactly that and more!
Coaching Report: Sales. This report provides tailored coaching guidance giving managers personalized tips and strategies to develop their sales team members.
Performance Model Report.Understand the range of scores and behaviors for the position you’re trying to fill. Learn about the ideal candidate for that role.
Introducing The combined Five Behaviors® Facilitation Kit!
If you want to build a culture of teamwork in your organization, you can get certified in The Five Behaviors content, and The combined Five Behaviors® Facilitation Kit is now live! Bringing together both Personal and Team Development in a single kit, it will give you the flexibility to deliver the right solution for any organizational need.
What’s in the new kit?
1. Team Development for building cohesive intact teams:
-1- and 3-day facilitation guide with videos and activities
-Customizable PowerPower® Point Slides
-Annotated Facilitator Reports
2. Personal Development for building a culture of teamwork:
-Half-day facilitation guide with videos and activities
-Customizable PowerPoint® Slides
This combined Kit only costs $1,495 (previously $2,990) and you'll have what you need to lead sessions to build a common language around teamwork. It comes in downloadable or usb formats - DM me today to get one in your 2023 budget!
Build your team’s capacity to have productive conflict
Do you want colleagues who can:
- Appreciate how their style of handling conflict affects the people around them
- Learn how to “catch” themselves when going down a destructive conflict path
-Learn how to reframe a conflict situation and choose more productive behaviors
- Build a common language in the organization around appropriate conflict behavior?
The Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict Profile does just that!
This 22-page Profile provides an in-depth, highly personalized report that highlights techniques to improve self-awareness around conflict behaviors.
It’s customizable: Online tailoring options make it easy to remove or rearrange pages, customize the Profile title, or print select sections.
It uses self-awareness and application: Participants explore their own DiSC styles and learn how to interact in conflict with people with different DiSC styles.
Participants also explore common destructive responses to conflict and why they and others might react this way.
As with all Everything DiSC profiles, this comes with a Facilitation Kit providing scripts, PowerPoint slides, and customizable handouts so you or your training staff can deliver this content to small or large groups in your organization.
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Build a culture of cohesive teamwork throughout your organization!
You can build a culture of cohesive teamwork in your organization and here's how! You can get certified to deliver engaging and impactful Five Behaviors learning experiences in your organization. The certification is a 2-week immersive experience that combines live, instructor-led sessions with self-guoded online learning and you will leave with:
- a deep understanding of The Five Behaviors model and key principles,
- the full Five Behaviors solution portfolio: Team Development and Personal Development
- confidence from practice with facilitation techniques with feedback from your peers
- access to Wiley's Online Training Center which you can continue to access after the course ends.
- once you pass the exam, you will earn the title of Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner which you can take with you to any organization.
The cost is $2,495 with no continuing annual fee. Message me to register for a session in 2023 or 2024!
Turn your group into a true team!
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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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Build everyone's awareness of how they show up on teams!
Teamwork starts at the individual level. But in a modern workplace that is high-speed and high-stakes, how can you equip people to quickly build cohesiveness and deliver results? We have the solution.
The Five Behaviors™ Personal Development solution teaches individuals to become better teammates by integrating Patrick Lencioni’s model across the entire organizational. The goal is to completely redefine teamwork and collaboration.
Personal Development 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. Call me today to see this powerful model and profile.
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!
