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Five things that can make or break workplace teams

AJ Cheponis

Jun 11, 2020
2 min

Five things that can make or break workplace teams

Five things that are all part of the equation and have the potential to either make or break workplace teams.

How to avoid disagreements on your executive team

AJ Cheponis

Jun 2, 2020
2 min

How to avoid disagreements on your executive team

Certainly, everyone would prefer a functional executive team where disagreements don’t dominate the proceedings.

How to build a five-star sales team using talent optimization

AJ Cheponis

Apr 29, 2020
7 min

How to build a five-star sales team using talent optimization

Sales is about aligning a group of people to deliver business results.

What does Billy Beane have to do with business?

AJ Cheponis

Apr 24, 2020
2 min

What does Billy Beane have to do with business?

The moral of the story? Just because there’s “a way things have always been done,” that doesn’t mean that’s the best way to do things.

AJ Cheponis

Apr 20, 2020
4 min

How to communicate more effectively

Good communicators don’t just talk. If your tendency is to try to “win” conversations, curiosity will help balance out that tendency.

The key to building high-performing teams

solutions171

Aug 13, 2019
3 min

The key to building high-performing teams

By predicting team dynamics in advance of the applicant selection process, HR leaders and hiring managers can make strategic, data-backed hi

Five questions to ask before implementing a performance feedback system

AJ Cheponis

Mar 15, 2019
2 min

Five questions to ask before implementing a performance feedback system

Innovative companies who want to retain top talent use assessments to understand their employees’ behaviors.

Building a learning organization from the ground up

AJ Cheponis

Mar 8, 2019
3 min

Building a learning organization from the ground up

It’s the learning ability of the employees who lead and work in the organization that is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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