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Use Collaboration to Achieve High Performance
Teamwork is universal. No matter the industry or discipline, teams are crucial to the realization of any major goal. Even a highly individualized profession, like coding, is ultimately a team sport. Even if it is just the reviewing of code, and exists fully online through virtual interactions, a team mentality prevails. There’s still an accountability…
Lees meerInspiring Student Learning
Emergenetics comes from nature (our genetic tendencies to think and act in certain ways) and nurture (the importance of surroundings, upbringing, and socialization). And while most people familiar with Emergenetics think of this only in a business context, it can benefit any person anywhere. As Colin Yeow, Emergenetics International-Asia Deputy CEO, discussed in our last…
Lees meerTeam Performance Lessons from March Madness
With March Madness in full swing, our office is in full-on sports mode. And while this time of year is touted as the least productive for business, we’re actually finding great lessons and real life applications as these basketball games unfold. I had a conversation with my team in our New York office this morning…
Lees meerBuilding a Giver Culture By Honoring Differences
Adam Grant, author of the book Give and Take, shares his insight into how businesses can “reap significant and lasting benefits” in the article, Givers Take All: The hidden dimension of corporate culture. The business changing method? Encourage employees to “both seek and provide help”. Giving—your time, your perspective, your expertise—can actually change companies and…
Lees meerIncreasing Participant Knowledge Gain Through Brain Gym
If you’ve attended (or facilitated) an Emergenetics workshop lately, you probably kicked off the day with some Brain Gym® activities. Nothing like some good ‘ole cross crawls to get the heart pumping and the mind going first thing in the morning! All Emergenetics Associates are trained to incorporate Brain Gym into their workshops to help…
Lees meerAccelerate Team Building and Collaboration
Enlightenment and alliances are on full display in our newest case study based on custom teambuilding we did for VivaKi, a leading digital advertising agency, and part of Publicis Group, one of the world’s largest advertising and public relations companies. VivaKi’s Center of Excellence (COE) anchored the Emergenetics work—it was a multifaceted leadership and team…
Lees meerAsking the Right Questions for Better Results
I was having lunch recently with an Emergenetics Associate who I consider very much to be a mentor and a sage. We were catching up when she said from recent episode about asking the right questions that she had to deal with at work: “How you see is as important as what you see”. Often,…
Lees meerAn Emergenetics Approach to Performance Reviews
This time of year, many of you are performing the annual ritual of performance reviews. For me, I choose to lead by being clear, objective, and fair, and this is especially true when providing performance reviews. Rather than dreading this experience, I view it as an opportunity to develop mutual understanding and better my communication…
Lees meerHow to Maximize Your Talent Development Program
Talent development and management systems address the challenge of putting people on a pipeline that maximizes their contribution to the organization. Some tools address individual elements of the employee life cycle, others address the whole system. Either way, the notion of sustainability is essential to the overall use of any one tool, as Diane Lujan,…
Lees meerThis Valentine’s Day: Show Your Appreciation
Do you appreciate your co-worker’s preference in Green (Structural thinking)? And what’s not to love about your boss’s 3rd/3rd Flexibility? Why not share an Emergenetics Appreciation Card with your favorite colleague, friend or family member? After all…beauty is only skin deep and Emergenetics preferences are so much more! Emergenetics has developed a collection of Appreciation…
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