Improve Your Hiring Decisions by Measuring Productivity

Improve Your Hiring Decisions by Measuring Productivity

Hiring is expensive. Bad hiring is even worse. Currently, a search of “the cost of bad hiring” returns more than 36 million results in just over 60 seconds. Plenty of helpful articles have been written on the topic. If you haven’t done any reading on this, allow...
Activator Strength: Hustle or Haste?

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?

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...
Introverted Sensing vs Extroverted Sensing

Introverted Sensing vs Extroverted Sensing

Sensing is one of the 4 basic functions in Myers & Briggs personality theory. Referring to the way a person prefers to take in information, it is the opposite of iNtuition and simply means that the person prefers to pay more attention to data taken in through the...
Introverted Feeling vs Extroverted Feeling

Introverted Feeling vs Extroverted Feeling

Everyone has feelings. Some are more expressive. Others are more reserved. But everyone has feelings. In Myers & Briggs terms, the Feeling function simply means there is a preference in making decisions by considering what the people involved in the situation care...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High C

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...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High S

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...
DISC Assessment Types: Managing a High I

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...