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Everyone’s Unique What is Talent Optimization? Simply put, it’s individual employees at their best. The idea of talent optimization sounds good, but where does the process of optimizing talent begin? It starts with re-evaluating your organization’s beliefs: Are you giving the people of your organization the freedom to be their…
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The Foundation of a Culture Everyone is familiar with the rather vintage artifact known as a compass. Its goal was to provide navigation and orientation – a sense of direction for any kind of traveler. What compass-like tool are you using to set the direction for your organization’s culture? What framework is giving…
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What is Success? How can leaders amplify their team’s overall success? Team success begins with understanding and championing the unique individuals with unique strengths who make up the team, and determining how each of them can be successful. The definition of success and how to achieve it varies, depending on…
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Every week in 2022, Shawn Gulyas, Founder and The Thought Catalyst at humanworks8, shared a thought-provoking question in his weekly “Wondering Wednesday” newsletter on LinkedIn. Inspired by the humanworks8 core value of “Wonder,” Shawn’s challenges are designed to help leaders pause, if only for a moment, to think differently about…
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Are you ready for 2023? As the year wraps up, we all feel a sense of “reset,” perhaps believing things will be better or at least different when we wake up on January 1st. Instead of focusing only on personal resolutions, business leaders are also challenged with business resolutions, or…
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Avoiding Burnout, Turnover and Quiet Quitting McKinsey & Company reported trends tied to reshuffling, reinventing and reassessing as it relates to The Great Resignation. But what if employees didn’t have to resign in order to find work that aligned with their natural strengths? What if they could do their job…their…
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This interview with Rob Maniaci and Shawn Gulyas originally appeared in Issue 123 of the Business Owners Speak Out newsletter, a weekly publication sent to subscribers by ActionCOACH of Wisconsin. Learn more and subscribe. humanworks8 – Owner Shawn Gulyas Shawn Gulyas: Our tagline is that we help organizations bring work…
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A New Workplace Well-Being Framework The U.S. Surgeon General recently released a new framework for well-being in the workplace in light of some staggering statistics, including: 76% of U.S. workers in a 2021 survey reported at least one symptom of a mental health condition (anxiety, depression), an increase of 17…
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A recent Forbes article summarized the employee engagement survey as a way to discover what drives your unique group of employees so that you can more quickly engage them. The article also highlighted that summer is a “weirdly great” time for organizations to conduct engagement surveys. Now that I think…
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I can alliterate with the best of them, but sometimes I want to say “stop” with the catchy headline and get to what’s underneath. Fact: Employees have been quitting jobs forever. Some quietly and some quite loudly. I don’t know about you, but it’s less about them and more about their leader and…
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