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Companies face challenges everyday in gauging employee effectiveness, particularly in the context of new hybrid and remote-working models prompted by the pandemic. According to McKinsey research, data indicates that employee disengagement and attrition could cost a median-size S&P 500 company between $228 million and $355 million annually, emphasizing the need for a more segmented approach to address varying employee experiences. In “Some employees are destroying value. Others are building it. Do you know the difference?,” Aaron De Smet, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi, Angelika Reich, and Bill Schaninger discuss research identifying six distinct employee groups, ranging from highly dissatisfied and disengaged to thriving stars. 

Sometimes I think that Generation Z (my generation) is like pizza with pineapple and ham.  Most people quickly dismiss us as not as good as other generations.  Some believe we’re too self-focused, whiny, opinionated. And a smaller group (often much smaller) describe our strengths such as more tech-savvy, flexible, creative, etc.  Forbes in particular frequently writes about Gen Z in the workplace.  Depending on the article, we’re the most “diverse”, “awesome, “freedom-seeking” and “difficult.” 

More than three years after the disruption of COVID, there still is no “new normal”.  Employee engagement is still near an all-time low and workplace stress at a high.  But some organizations have been able to achieve competitive advantage through individual and organizational resilience.  They equip their people with the skills to navigate chaos and turn external change into high performance.  This webinar will discuss the need for resilience and provide practical strategies for achieving resilience.

The new Adaptive Mindset v3 Assessment & Profile is the first tool that identifies a person’s specific Negativity Bias, which is how they typically deal with stress and change.  Understanding this bias and taking steps to counteract it improves performance.   Additionally, the new profile now includes SOCIAL STYLE-specific resilience strategies.  SOCIAL STYLE is the world’s leading communications and behavioral style model.   

Artificial Intelligence (AI) jumped into the headlines of late, but in reality, it’s not that new.   Few people initially worried about the voice commands that allowed us to complete common tasks with minimal effort. Then we started getting ads touting products or services eerily similar to topics we were discussing near our smart devices.  Then popular culture jumped into the AI world with movies like Ex Machina.