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Two Powerful Communication Strategies Effective Leaders Use To Engage Employees

By Chrissiebusiness management, Communication, Harrison assessments, Harrison talent analytics, Innovation, leadership, teamscommunication, communication strategies, culture, employee engagement, leadership, management, teams

Communication is the backbone of strong leadership, employee engagement, and overall business success. Leaders who use effective communication strategies inspire their teams, set clear expectations, provide constructive feedback, and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders. Which Communication Strategies Are Most Effective to Engage Employees? After analysing over 30 years of global job performance and employee engagement…

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Turnover- The Ants are Fleeing the Colony

By Chrissiebusiness management, Harrison assessments, job fit assessments, job suitability, job suitability assessments, leadership, Recruitingbad hire, good hire, job fit, job fit assessments, leadership, management, recruitment

“Why is everybody leaving?” he said as he stomped into the office. “In the last four weeks we’ve lost two of our best middle managers and I just heard through the rumour mill we are going to lose two more!” Is this a familiar scene? People don’t leave jobs, they leave people. The costs of…

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New Role of HR Manager: Hiring Success Management (HSM)

By Chrissiebusiness management, Harrison assessments, Harrison talent analytics, job suitability, job suitability assessments, leadership, Personality, RecruitingHarrison assessments, hiring, Hiring Success Management, leadership, management, recruiting, recruitment

Hiring and development of good talent is getting a boost from more sophisticated data management. Forward thinking companies are now utilising more sophisticated software systems that use data science and predictive analytics to alleviate the menial work. This new breed of “smart” hiring software is fuelling an emerging category called hiring success management (HSM). As HSM…

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Incessant Complainers

By Chrissiebusiness management, Communication, Culture, Harrison assessments, leadership, personal development, Personality, Recruiting, teamsculture, incessant complainers, leadersihp, management, personalities, personality types, recruitment

Incessant Complainers. Do you have this type of employee in your organisation? Characteristics: Non-stop complaining about the company, the working environment, colleagues and customers; does not see problems as opportunities to improve a situation. Complains about things but walks away when called to take up the challenge to change things for better. Traits to look…

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Suitability and Eligibility – The Win Win Candidate

By ChrissieHarrison assessments, Harrison talent analytics, personal development, Personality, Recruitingeligibility, Harrison assessments, job fit, job role, leadership, leadership coach Chesterfield, management, recruiting, recruitment, suitability

Suitability AND Eligibility – The winning combination in HR that can help you find the win/win candidate. Choosing the best candidate to recruit and hire is not an easy task. However, hiring right the first time can save you a lot of time and your company a lot of money. Today forward thinking companies are…

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Suitability and Hiring Selection Success

By Chrissiebusiness management, Harrison assessments, leadership, personal development, promotion, Recruiting, teamsHarrison assessments, hiring, leadership, management, promotion, recruitment, role suitability, suitability

For most jobs, suitability/behavioural factors are about 50% of the reason people succeed or fail at a job. Therefore, effectively measuring suitability should be an essential part of any job fit or hiring assessment. The importance of assessing behaviour during recruitment is evidenced by the fact that most organisations hire people for their eligibility and…

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Enabling Innovation with the Help of Personality Trait Assessments

By ChrissieCulture, Harrison assessments, Innovation, leadershipculture, Harrison assessments, Innovation, leadership, management, personality traits

Innovation, Innovation, Innovation. It is hard to read a newspaper or business journal without finding an article on innovation or a reference to how companies must innovate to stay competitive. But the question that few articles address is how does a company become innovative or foster a culture of innovation? Most will agree that people…

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Creative Grit

By Chrissiebusiness management, personal development, teamscreative grit, grit, Harrison paradox, leadership, management

There has been a lot of buzz about the value of grit recently including a best seller named Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. The book explores the value of cultivating grit to achieve a more successful life. Grit is defined as perseverance, courage, resolve, or strength of character. There is no doubt that grit…

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Beyond Hungry, Humble, and Smart

By Chrissiebusiness management, Culture, Harrison talent analytics, teamsHarrison assessments, leadership, management, team player, teamwork

Ideal Team-players In 2016 Patrick Lencioni brought out the follow-up book to his The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, “The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues” [1]. Ideal team players, as Lencioni describes them, are Hungry, Humble and (emotionally) Smart – these are his “3 Virtues.” It is rare for people with only…

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Manager vs Leader? What’s the difference?

By Chrissiebusiness management, leadershipDevelopment, leadership, management

What is the difference between leadership and management? The main difference between leaders and managers is that leaders have people follow them while managers have people who work for them. Leaders are often described as setting the visions and direction whilst managers carry out the doing. We don’t all work in massive organisations where we…

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