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How to effectively identify and overcome resistance to change

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Why is resistance to change so persistent? The simple answer may just be that people want stability. They want to be able to predict what will happen to them instead of being confronted with the unknown.

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Tired of bad hires? Stop chasing perfection, and start hiring for potential.

8 min read

As companies fight for increasingly scarce talent, learn how PI scaled up its sales team by hiring great people in plain sight.

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How to build Job Targets with confidence

5 min read

Job targets enable confidence in job fit – the sense of feeling productive and satisfied in your work because your day-to-day tasks energize you.

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Become a better leader by developing these 18 essential traits

19 min read

Amid a shifting workplace landscape, one constant is the importance of effective leadership. With so many aspects of work now in flux, the difference a good leader can make may be greater than ever.

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How to boost team morale and motivate your people

20 min read

Employee morale may describe how satisfied employees are with their work, their level of happiness or motivation, or their enthusiasm or engagement, among other traits. 

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Know your candidate: 3 hiring tips from a fresh recruiter

8 min read

As a job seeker turned candidate recruiter, I’ve seen all sides of talent acquisition. Here are my three biggest tips for new recruiters.

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Change management process: Best practices for planning and execution

15 min read

A change management process refers to any system or framework a business or organization puts in place in order to help them design, build, implement, and manage change strategies.

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How to set effective team goals

21 min read

Tips, strategies, and workplace examples of effective team goal-setting Setting effective team goals sounds simple enough. After all, we set goals for ourselves every day. Whether you’re writing down a to-do list or trying to accomplish something a little more long-term, setting a goal just means stating what you want to get done. So why…

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How to develop an effective change management plan

7 min read

Creating and implementing a change management plan helps organize the transition to a proposed change, improves buy-in, and builds trust among team members.

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35 manager survey questions for employees: A 2023 guide

14 min read

Manager survey questions offer a valuable opportunity to solicit employee feedback, and effectively improve manager performance.

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4 reasons HR fails to get approval for the tools they need

6 min read

As an HR professional, your best defense is a good offense. If you can anticipate the reasons you might have a proposal denied, you can more readily dispel misconceptions.

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Building a high-performing team

11 min read

How do you build a high-performing team? Even the clearest business vision is lost without the right people in place. You certainly can’t build a high-performing team just by hiring a few people with glowing resumes. This holds true whether yours is an organization of five or 5,000, multinational or local. You can’t achieve your…

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Expand the Circle: A Q&A with author and enlightened leader Matt Poepsel, PhD

19 min read

In his new book, Expand the Circle, PI’s Matt Poepsel has a solution for ineffective and outdated leadership. Learn more in our Q&A.

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I should have listened to my recruiter: Reflections of a hiring manager

10 min read

I spent five months working with our lead recruiter to hire a Growth Marketing Manager. Here’s everything I learned.

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Living the green dream: A view from the PI Office Olympics pedestal

11 min read

Nobody approached this “return to office” request with a sense of obligation. We were here to connect with colleagues, sure, but also to compete.

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A new frontier: What HR teams should know about AI in the workplace

8 min read

Companies are playing perpetual catch-up when it comes to understanding not only who’s using AI tools, but the ramifications of how they’re using them.

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Expand your knowledge of Black history with our BHM daily treasures.

36 min read

Join us as we reflect on a month of Black History At The Predictive Index, we believe equity goes hand in hand with empathy and education. The more we listen to and learn from our friends, colleagues, and neighbors, the better our world becomes.  Where there are lived experiences, there is learning. When you speak…

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Attracting top talent in 2023

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Attracting top talent in 2023 There’s no denying it: The employer-employee dynamic has flipped—maybe for good.  If you’re a hiring manager or business leader, you’ve probably seen it firsthand. Good candidates for key roles are scarce. They left jobs during The Great Resignation in no hurry to return, or they’re taking advantage of sudden supply-and-demand…

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Your guide to a hiring strategy that actually works

21 min read

Your guide to a hiring strategy that actually works When you look over candidates for a key open position, do you feel a sense of dread? When you find the perfect candidate, do you always seem to lose them? Or, when you finally hire someone, has their performance been underwhelming? It’s a common quandary in…

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What does it mean to have psychological safety in the workplace?

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What does it mean to have psychological safety in the workplace? What does the term “safety in the workplace” mean to you?  At first, it might evoke images of Wet Floor placards, or Caution: Hot Coffee labels. Maybe you get stressed out thinking about OSHA regulations. Not inconsequential stuff, but these more traditional markers only…

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