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Transforming Boards: Unleashing the Power of Quiet Diversity

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Two years ago, a private company's board witnessed a historic shift, appointing a black woman as Chairperson—a groundbreaking move for diversity. However, despite the outward change, board dynamics remained stagnant, marked by routine and minimal debate....
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A Growth Culture: Enhanced with Behavior Analytics

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

People are often amazed by how much we can learn from a behavior distribution map such as the one below. You may have guessed that the little dots represent people. The two axes, Informal/Formal and Analytical/Sociable, are two behavior factors among...
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What Part of 'Quiet Hiring' Don't You Understand?

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Several trends have recently gained traction in the workplace, and “quiet hiring” is one of them. If you are unfamiliar with it, “Quiet hiring" describes a company's filling job openings with current employees without publicizing any vacancy. Additionally,...
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Four Keys to Unlock Your Leadership in Uncertain Times

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell, Richard Bell

With uncertainty in business and personal life following three years of the pandemic, now with geopolitical issues, and daily micro stressors, a leader’s power skills—the new term for people and social skills—become increasingly relevant. They...
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Managing Change in the Post Covid Era: The Role of Leaders

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Change is an inescapable part of life, often unpredictable and daunting. Yet, it can also offer great potential for growth. In this current business environment, characterized by volatility and uncertainty, effective leaders must embrace change as a...
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Leaders: A New Approach for a New Era

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

When recently flying between the East and West coast, I was surprised to be greeted by the pilot. Pilots are usually busy with their checklists before the plane takes off. This time not only did the pilot wait for passengers with the flight attendant,...
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Finding Purpose in Our Work

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

The need for purpose in our work is an important part of our behavioral/emotional makeup. Having a purpose to our lives, derived from the work we do, or aligned with our work, is not a new idea. But the modern labor market continues to be uncertain and...
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Moneyball for Companies: The Making of GRI's Metric

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

For too long, organizations have been recruiting and evaluating employees using techniques that are subjective, often flawed, and outdated. We created the Growth Resources Indicators (GRI) to reveal the talents and motivations of individual employees...
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Peak Performance in Challenging Times: Focus on People

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell, Nicole Phelon

Our world has perhaps never been more chaotic and challenging, particularly for businesses trying to chart a successful course. However, this upheaval may be the perfect opportunity for organizations to focus on their people skills. Trusted, happy employees...
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Going Back to the Future with the Metaverse for Learning and Teamwork

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell, Paula Lynn Danovsky

After navigating more than two years through a global pandemic, it’s easy to conclude that today there are many ways we can connect to move our organizational pursuits forward. Zoom, Google Meets, and Slack have become household names, and we’ve...
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Resilience in the Workplace

Posted by Terry Chuah, Nicole Phelon

The pandemic and massive global unrest over the past couple of years have sharpened leaders' focus on resilience, both in their employees and in their organizations as a whole.
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Wellbeing at Work: How to Stem the Tide of The Great Resignation

Posted by Kristina Tyler, Nicole Phelon

Wellbeing at work is a concept that has in the past been dismissed as fluffy, New-Agey, or too personal, but now, with the global pandemic and The Great Resignation, leaders and businesses are taking a closer look.
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The New Reality at Work: The Missing Link

Posted by Mihai Moghior

Over the last two years, everyone who could do their work from home was asked to, and it has dramatically changed the work environment. We are efficient and capable, effective and productive even when working remotely. But even though this new reality...
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The Factor Approach: What It Is and Why It Matters

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

We are increasingly pressured to understand what motivates people. People are continually challenged to become more resilient than ever and focus on their wellbeing. The work environment is expected to provide an environment for personal growth. The...
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Remote Work: The New Standard

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

In the new reality of business, the conversation is all about remote work. How does working remotely affect productivity? What pressure does it put on workplace culture? At a GRI client - a global leader in workplace culture - all employees were required...
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The Future, Post-COVID: Extra Empathy, More Performance

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

When seen from the future, it's clear there are opportunities in the uncertainty and change wrought by COVID-19. The pandemic offers a chance to change the way we evaluate employees, focusing on behaviors and our humanity instead of more biased metrics....
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Design Organizations that Thrive

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Most personality assessments provide information on individuals that is objective, reliable, and relevant to the workplace, but they do little to solve the organizational challenges of hiring and managing people and implementing change from the top....
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Remote Management in a Crisis, Beyond Intuition

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell, Gérard Arnaud, Nicole Phelon

How to get you through the coronavirus crisis and make you stronger than before at working remotely? In this article we present the actions to engage at three levels: individual, managerial and team. If your team or organization hasn't been using "personal...
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Reduce the Cost of Friction - Part 4

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

By mastering the intangible aspects of managing people more objectively, and creating a culture that hires, welcomes, and rewards various ways of performing and succeeding, companies can remove friction that would otherwise prevent them from enduring...
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Reduce Friction and Promote Teamwork - Part 3

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

How an organization performs as a whole and the people who make up the organization can only be analyzed in relationship to the market it competes in and how it meets its targets. This kind of friction is much easier to avoid if you work with a system...
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Reduce Friction and Promote Teamwork - Part 2

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Getting people into the job they are best suited for, using a common language to talk about behaviors, avoiding a rush to judgement, and increasing self-awareness can all reduce friction in the workplace.
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Reduce Friction and Promote Teamwork - Part 1

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Organizational friction leads to a loss of engagement and productivity that ultimately impacts the bottom line negatively. It is unnecessary and can be prevented. In this first part of a series of four posts, we discuss how friction between team members...
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Building Hard-Core Soft Leadership Skills

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Soft skills are in higher demand than ever. In a world where automation and machine learning are starting to take over the menial, rote tasks at work, soft skills are becoming the differentiator. These are the skills that allow us to communicate with...
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Build Teams more Effectively

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Understanding and predicting how several people perform together as a team is more challenging than understanding a single employee’s behavior. When managers have data from nuanced personality assessments like the GRI, they can better build and support...
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Define Jobs with Precision

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

The hiring process often focuses solely on candidates’ patchwork of talents. Organizations must use data about their behavior, and the behaviors that are required in the position, to get the most effective person into any given job.
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Reinvent Recruitment & Management - Part 3: Handle Quality Data with Care

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

This is the final part of a three-post series about reinventing recruitment and management. In this third part we discuss managing people with better quality data. At its most basic, better quality data from personality assessments provide managers...
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Reinvent Recruitment & Management - Part 2: Hire, Interview & Onboard

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

This is the second part of a three-post series about reinventing recruitment and management. In this second part we discuss the hiring portion of the recruitment process, including interviewing and onboarding. When hiring new employees, we naturally...
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Reinvent Recruitment & Management - Part 1: Collect & Share Data to Improve Performance

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

One of the first benefits of deploying a personality assessment like the one of the GRI in companies is that it facilitates greater transparency about both people and the organization by transforming the recruitment and management process within a company.
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Accept That Success is Not One Size Fits All

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

As much as we want companies to be professionally managed and follow a controlled and predictable growth path, more often they turn out to be like an aquarium where fish of various sizes and personalities have been thrown together in a close environment.
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Why Integrated Diversity Is Valuable

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Everyone knows that having a baseball team with all catchers on the roster won’t win games. Working as a team gives us the chance to distribute tasks among team members based on their diverse competencies, skills, abilities, experiences, and interests,...
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3 Keys to Sharpen Your Intuition & Unlock Your Potential as a Leader

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Becoming aware of our implicit biases and the limitations of our intuition is an important aspect to the ongoing discussions about better integrating diversity in our organizations. It is central to becoming our best, most productive self, and the successful...
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Embracing the Future of Work

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

The "Future of Work" has quickly become a buzzword in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Born out of a rapidly changing Internet and evolving digital and mobile technologies, the Future of Work immediately brings to mind things like automation, robotics...
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Innovation & the Future of Work

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

The way we work is changing at an unprecedented pace. Today’s innovation in the workplace has significant repercussions on diverse issues such as work/life balance, “careers”, hiring, corporate culture and compensation.
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Fostering Creativity: 4 Critical Pillars

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Either coming from outside or inside the organization, creativity properly understood, implemented, channeled and timely executed provides the fuel for a company’s sustainability and growth
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Jungle Survivor & Entrepreneur: the Constancy of the Inner Narrative

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Yossi remembers this instant vividly, and will forever, though it happened over 30 years ago. He was on the shore of the Beni River in Bolivia, nearly dead after three weeks alone in the jungle. A riverboat just a few yards away was about to round a...
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The Millennial Search for Purpose

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Because Gen X is relatively small, Millennials will have to take on management and leadership roles much younger than other generations. They are projected to be 75% of the workforce by 2025. On top of that they have unprecedented access to what is...
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Boost Your Emotional Intelligence, Fast and Forever

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) quickly grabbed the interest of scientists, academics and business leaders. For companies and their leaders, it offered another way to succeed, seeming to quantify and define the “It” factor that made some leaders...
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21st Century Star Wars Leadership

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Great people skills are critical for leaders, and although this has always been the case, the speed and transparency of the digital age puts pressure on leaders to develop their people skills to higher standards, faster.
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Comparing GRI Profiles for Team Success

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

The comparison of GRI profiles between team members is a feature that our clients find very useful. By comparing the profiles of team members, teams and their managers develop a greater understanding of their differences
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Radical Innovation à la Steve Jobs

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

When you hear anecdotes from Apple employees or from external collaborators, you inevitably hear about Steve Jobs' "Reality Distortion Field". It's a term his colleagues borrowed from a Star Trek episode to define ...
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The Elephant in the Room

Posted by Marcus Clarke

Predictive Analytics, big data and talent management are topics that have been gaining traction in the C-suite because of their increasing importance in today's market
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GRI Summit

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

The Future of Human Capital Management. The GRI Summit Dinner is an exceptional opportunity to challenge the status-quo of human capital, envision its future and meet the GRI community.
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People Skills Are Key For Outstanding Performance & Success

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Performing doesn't mean the same thing for Stacy as it does for Joe. After six months, Joe is having a hard time working with Stacy, especially when discussing strategic issues, and he is not happy with the way she is delivering.
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The Art and Science of Managing People

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Gabriel, CEO of a fast-growing tech company in Silicon Valley, is looking at the organizational chart with the CFO and Human Resources Director. Tensions at the executive level are impacting employee engagement, recruiting new talent is proving unsuccessful,...
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Recruiting Talent - Analyzing Fit

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

If you are recruiting top talent for your team, looking at the candidates shown below, how long does it take you to decide on the one with the best behavioral fit?
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The Language of People Management

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Words are what make us human. Potentially, our words make us smarter at thinking and abstracting. On the other hand, words often have different meanings for different people, depending on context, situation ...
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Fish Tank vs. Company Culture: Tips on Selecting New Additions Well

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

The hiring interview is time that you have for one-on-one contact with your candidates - a chance to ask questions, to develop a better understanding of them, to sell the position, and ultimately, to make a decision.
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Different Styles. Different Paths to Success.

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Here at Growth Resources, we know that everyone has the ability to be successful. What we see through the use of the GRI is that, when there is a better understanding of behavior patterns, success becomes about HOW: How an individual or team can succeed,...
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Informed Hiring Decisions

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Hiring the right people is not easy. Across ages, industries, and cultures, at all levels in companies, hiring has historically been problematic.
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Aligning Talents

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Creating a workforce plan, to align your talent needs with your business strategies and projections, can be a complex process.
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Ambiguity of Leadership

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Older research on management and leadership can often still provide valid insights for the modern business world.
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Build Trust in the Workplace

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

For organizations to function efficiently, they must embrace the idea that trust in the workplace is vital to their success.
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Management 101

Posted by Frederic Lucas-Conwell

Isn't management about motivating people? Or is it just about making sure that people do what they are required to do?
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