Theories Behind the 3D MAP
What is Your Management Style?
I'm sure you have firsthand experience of the impact that a manager’s style can have on a team's performance. It's crucial to ensure that the right manager is in the right role for maximum success. There's no one-size-fits-all approach to management. Each style has...
Do Your Employees Like Your Management Style?
“People don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.” You’ve probably heard this statement multiple times, but it’s true. Let’s face it: If your employees don’t like working for you, they probably won’t stay. Or even worse, they’ll stick around long enough to grumble and...
Four Ways to Keep Great Employees
Do you believe people are your best asset? If so, what are you doing to keep them? Knowing each employee’s personality, motivators and behaviors — which we measure through the MAP (Multi-Assessment Profile) hiring and management assessment — can help you manage your...![What Temperaments Do You Have On Your Team? [Infographic]](https://www.talentinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Smaller-1-Team-Widgets.png)
What Temperaments Do You Have On Your Team? [Infographic]
Every good manager knows that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to leadership. What motivates one team member might drain another, and one employee may enjoy a task that stresses another one out. How you manage and motivate your team depends largely on each...
How to Turn Around a Toxic Company Culture
Perhaps you are trying to transform a negative company culture. Or maybe you haven’t been consistent with hiring to fit a healthy company culture, so there is inconsistent culture alignment. You might also be dealing with the fallout from employees carrying the...
7 Uses of Job Assessments HR Professionals Should Promote
There's something powerful about using job assessments in your organization—especially if you can tap into the right information at the right time. Like that one time you hired the candidate who had the stellar interview and you just knew they were going to be a...
The Ultimate Myers & Briggs Type Indicator Cheat Sheet
Back in the 1940s, the assistant superintendent of the Cincinnati Public Schools, George Reavis, published a fable about an animal school. It starts off something like this… “Terribly concerned about their offspring’s future, the animals of the forest decided...
Activator Strength: Hustle or Haste?
An important concept to understand when taking the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment is understanding the difference between a talent and a strength. The organization (Gallup) that created the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment defines both: Talent: a natural way of...
Achiever Strength: Workhorse or Workaholic?
If you have taken the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment, you have a Top 5 list. But is this list your Top 5 strengths or talents? What is the difference? Gallup--the organization that created the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment--defines both: Talent: a natural way of...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High C
This is our final post in our series on 4 DISC traits every manager should know. Today, we'll take a look at the High C. If you have a High D, High I or High S on your team, don't miss our previous posts where we looked at the common characteristics of each one. For...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High S
This post is the third in a series of four. Today we will take a look at the characteristics of the high S's on your team. If you missed it, be sure to familiarize yourself with the characteristics of the high D's and high I's, too! For those highest in...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High I
This post is the second in a series of four. Today we will take a look at the characteristics of the high I's on your team. If you missed it, be sure to familiarize yourself with the characteristics of the high D's, too! For those highest in the Influence dimension,...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High D
I say it all the time: People do what makes sense to them. And yet, I meet with manager after manager who can't figure out why their employee is behaving so randomly or illogically. It is not unusual for a new client to say to me that they don't put a lot of stock in...