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# Narish International LLC

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## Posts

- [How Technology Enabled the Pre-Employment Screening Process](https://blog.narishintl.com/how-technology-enabled-the-pre-employment-screening-process/) - Click to learn about various technologies and how they can enable a remote pre-employment screening process when it is needed.
- [How to Ensure Talent Optimization Practices Produce Good Outcomes](https://blog.narishintl.com/how-to-ensure-talent-optimization-practices-produce-good-outcomes/) - Click to learn how to use talent optimization practices that are tailor-made to produce the best possible outcomes for your company.
- [Remote Onboarding Best Practices for Talent and Performance Management](https://blog.narishintl.com/remote-onboarding-best-practices-for-talent-and-performance-management/) - Click to learn about some of the challenges with onboarding remote employees and how following best practices can help better manage talent and performance.
- [HR Analytics Can Facilitate Success Even with Remote Teams](https://blog.narishintl.com/hr-analytics-can-facilitate-success-even-with-remote-teams/) - Click to learn about HR analytics and the many ways in which they can be used to make remote teams more successful in their job performance.
- [Workforce Analytics and the Long-Time Employee: 5 Benefits](https://blog.narishintl.com/workforce-analytics-and-the-long-time-employee-5-benefits/) - Click to learn about how workforce analytics can benefit even long-time employees through the creation of standards, engagement, and more.
- [Tips for Employee Training When Your Team Goes Remote](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/tips-for-employee-training-when-teams-go-remote/#new_tab) - Employee training doesn’t stop just because of COVID-19. Discover tips for how to keep your training programs working well when your team is remote.
- [Support Your Company's People Strategy with Workforce Analytics](https://blog.narishintl.com/support-your-companys-people-strategy-with-workforce-analytics/) - Learn about the ways in which workforce analytics can help a company's people strategy be more effective from recruiting to dealing with problems.
- [Why Employee Analytics Are Only Part of Your Overall Talent Strategy](https://blog.narishintl.com/why-employee-analytics-are-only-part-of-your-overall-talent-strategy/) - Click to learn why employee analytics can never be your entire talent strategy, but are one important part of a plan for hiring and engagement.
- [Q&A With Sana Rasul: Overcoming Bad Hires By Assessing Incoming Candidates](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-sana-rasul-overcoming-bad-hires-by-assessing-incoming-candidates/) - We spoke with Rasul about the risks of making a bad hire and the value of assessments for understanding who a candidate really is.
- [Measure Employee Engagement to Improve Hiring Retention](https://blog.narishintl.com/measure-employee-engagement-to-improve-hiring-retention/) - Learn about several effective ways to measure employee engagement for the purposes of improving productivity and retention in your workplace.
- [Realign, relearn and thrive on the blue marble in space](https://blog.narishintl.com/realign-relearn-and-thrive-on-the-blue-marble-in-space/) - It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. The COVID 19 pandemic that is sweeping the world is cause for great alarm and caution. However, like all things this too shall pass.
- [Pre-Hire People Analytics That Support Talent Optimization Goals](https://blog.narishintl.com/pre-hire-people-analytics-that-support-talent-optimization-goals/) - Click to learn how pre-hire people analytics like assessments can support your company's talent optimization goals through better hiring practices.
- [Training for Boosting Employee Engagement and Optimizing Talent](https://blog.narishintl.com/training-for-boosting-employee-engagement-and-optimizing-talent/) - Click to learn about how leaders can be trained in ways that boost employee engagement and optimize talent with assessments and other tools.
- [How Employee Engagement Supports Talent Optimization](https://blog.narishintl.com/how-employee-engagement-supports-talent-optimization/) - Click to learn about the relationship between employee engagement and talent optimization, including why the two work together for success.
- [Emotional Intelligence Assessment for Talent Optimization in Hiring](https://blog.narishintl.com/emotional-intelligence-assessment-for-talent-optimization-in-hiring/) - Learn how assessments that measure emotional intelligence are impacting talent optimization as part of the hiring process.
- [Q&A with HR Expert Max Blumberg: How People Analytics Brought Science Into Hiring](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-max-blumberg/) - Max Blumberg has worked with companies like Hilton, the BBC and Rentokil Initial to transform their sales force and help them with hiring through people analytics.
- [Future-Forward Talent Management: How to Develop Tomorrow's Leadership Team](https://blog.narishintl.com/future-forward-talent-management-how-to-develop-tomorrows-leadership-team/) - Click to learn about the future of talent management in the form of a leadership development team that can prepare future leaders.
- [5 Top Pitfalls of Leadership Development Programs and How to Avoid Them](https://blog.narishintl.com/5-top-pitfalls-of-leadership-development-programs-and-how-to-avoid-them/) - Learn about the top pitfalls of today's leadership development programs and how you can avoid them in your company's programs.
- [7 Leadership Skills to Include in Your Development Program](https://blog.narishintl.com/7-leadership-skills-to-include-in-your-development-program/) - Click to learn about a number of different leadership skills you will want to include when you institute a leadership development program.
- [How to Make a Business Case for Investing In Employee Engagement](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/investing-in-employee-engagement/#new_tab) - Want to make an effective business case for investing in employee engagement? Click to learn how engagement improves the bottom line.
- [Counting the Cost of Your Leadership Development Program](https://blog.narishintl.com/counting-the-cost-of-your-leadership-development-program/) - Click to learn why it's important to count the cost of your leadership development efforts and not just leave them to chance or forego them altogether.
- [Q&A with Kevin Grossman: Improving the Candidate Experience](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-kevin-grossman-improving-the-candidate-experience/) - We spoke to him about what today’s job seekers what, and what happens when companies come in above or below expectations.
- [6 common reasons why teams underperform](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/reasons-teams-underperform/) - Click to learn about what commonly causes poor team performance and how to address these causes to help teams and team members improve.
- [Employee Engagement Starts Pre-Hire](https://blog.narishintl.com/employee-engagement-starts-pre-hire/) - Click to learn how employee engagement can start with the very first contact candidates have with your organization, even before they are hired.
- [Q&A with Itamar Frankenthal](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-itamar-frankenthal/) - Itamar Frankenthal is the CEO of Rose Batteries and a Narish International client.
- [5 Ways to Engage Employees Right Now](https://blog.narishintl.com/5-ways-to-engage-employees-right-now/) - Click to learn why employee engagement is critical and how to better engage your employees to gain the benefits of that engagement.
- [Exploring the State of Employee Engagement in the New Year](https://blog.narishintl.com/exploring-the-state-of-employee-engagement-in-the-new-year/) - Click to learn about the importance of employee engagement and about new developments that are changing the employee engagement outlook for the new year.
- [4 Truths and 1 Lie about Employee Engagement](https://blog.narishintl.com/4-truths-and-1-lie-about-employee-engagement/) - Click to learn some interesting truths about employee engagement along with one lie that too many people continue to believe long after they should know better.
- [Top Talent Management Tools for 2020](https://blog.narishintl.com/top-talent-management-tools-for-2020/) - Read this article to learn about many of the top talent management tools currently available and how each one could help your business.
- [6 Talent Management Strategies That Work](https://blog.narishintl.com/6-talent-management-strategies-that-work/) - Click to learn about talent management strategies that work for the modern workforce, including cultural fit, continuing education, and assessments.
- [The Building Blocks of Talent Management](https://blog.narishintl.com/the-building-blocks-of-talent-management/) - Learn about the components of a successful talent management system, such as making good offers and using talent assessments to match people to positions.
- [Will AI Close the Skills Gap?](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/will-ai-close-the-skills-gap/) - Learn about the role of AI in recruiting now and in the future, as well as how AI can help close the skills gap through streamlined recruiting.
- [Q&A with Dorothy Dalton: How Assessments Contribute to Gender Balance and Inclusion](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-dorothy-dalton-how-assessments-contribute-to-gender-balance-and-inclusion/) - Dorothy Dalton is a career transition coach who also provides training for talent management professionals.
- [5 Ways to Fill the Skills Gap in Your Organization](https://blog.narishintl.com/5-ways-to-fill-the-skills-gap-in-your-organization/) - Learn some concrete ways to work toward filling skills gaps in your organization with these targeted suggestions about employer training and more.
- [Upskilling vs. AI: A Talent Leadership Choice](https://blog.narishintl.com/upskilling-vs-ai-a-talent-leadership-choice/) - Learn about the options of upskilling and AI as ways to close the skills gap and why talent leaders will come to understand that both are needed.
- [Exploring the Skills Gap for 2020](https://blog.narishintl.com/exploring-the-skills-gap-for-2020/) - Click to learn about how companies can address the skills gap that has led to millions of unfilled jobs in the U.S. and around the world.
- [Q&A with Jackie Glenn: Helping Women and Others Reach Their Workplace Potential](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-jackie-glenn-helping-women-and-others-reach-their-workplace-potential/) - Jackie Glenn worked as an HR employee and executive for 30 years, helping companies understand diversity in hiring and the many other components that go along with a more diverse workforce.
- [Q&A with Matt Charney: A Look at Global Recruiting Challenges and the Future of HR Tech](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-matt-charney-a-look-at-global-recruiting-challenges-and-the-future-of-hr-tech/) - Matt Charney is a self-described “kick-butt marketing and communications professional” based in Dallas, Texas, who at the age of only 30 has worked with many of the world’s biggest brands including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Twitter, NPR, and Applebees.
- [Talent Optimization: It's Not Just About Your Team](https://blog.narishintl.com/talent-optimization-its-not-just-about-your-team/) - Learn about talent optimization and how it applies to leadership rather than just new hires, to the benefit of companies that use internal leadership pipelines.
- [The 5 Characteristics of Optimized Leadership Teams](https://blog.narishintl.com/the-5-characteristics-of-optimized-leadership-teams/) - Learn about characteristics of optimized leadership teams such as adaptability, relational dynamics, purpose, trust, and accountability.
- [How to Inspire Your Team to Do Better Business in 2020](https://blog.narishintl.com/how-to-inspire-your-team-to-do-better-business-in-2020/) - Inspiring and motivating your team isn't easy, but there are some steps you can take to ensure that members align with business goals in 2020.
- [How to build a more emotionally intelligent organizational culture](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/emotionally-intelligent-organizational-culture/) - Click to learn more about emotional intelligence in the workplace and how to build a more emotionally intelligent organizational culture.
- [Self-Awareness: An Essential Key to Leadership Success](https://blog.narishintl.com/self-awareness-an-essential-key-to-leadership-success/) - Learn about why self-awareness is a key component of leadership success and how increased self-awareness can benefit a team.
- [Why Your People Strategy Matters as Much as Your Business Strategy](https://blog.narishintl.com/why-your-people-strategy-matters-as-much-as-your-business-strategy/) - Click to learn why people strategy matters as much as business strategy and how to align your business and people strategies for greater success.
- [Your Company's People Strategy: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Improve](https://blog.narishintl.com/your-companys-people-strategy-what-it-is-why-it-matters-and-how-to-improve/) - Click to learn about what it means to have an effective people strategy and how your company can improve the workplace environment for the better.
- [How to Identify and Address People Problems at Your Company](https://blog.narishintl.com/how-to-identify-and-address-people-problems-at-your-company/) - Learn how to identify and address people problems at your company so that they don't prevent you from reaching your objectives for success.
- [Q&A with Jason Lauritsen on Creating a More Positive Workplace](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-jason-lauritsen-on-creating-a-more-positive-workplace/) - Jason Lauritsen is a speaker, author, and consultant who wants companies to look at work and the workplace from their employees’ point of view and work to create positive workplace experiences for employees. This interview has been edited and condensed. How did you come to focus so much on employee engagement? I would say that
- [Assessment Tools: The Competitive Advantage You Need in 2020](https://blog.narishintl.com/assessment-tools-the-competitive-advantage-you-need-in-2020/) - Learn how using assessment tools can give your company a competitive advantage in 2020 and beyond by matching up traits and skills with jobs.
- [Talent Optimization 2.0: Best Practices for Upskilling Your Team](https://blog.narishintl.com/talent-optimization-2-0-best-practices-for-upskilling-your-team/) - Find out how upskilling can keep your team's skills current and help you adapt to changing needs and advancing technologies that require moving forward.
- [Top 14 Reasons Good Employees Leave -- And What to Do About It](https://blog.narishintl.com/top-14-reasons-good-employees-leave-and-what-to-do-about-it/) - Learn what employers can do to retain good employees rather than lose them to other companies for a number of different reasons.
- [How to hire employees who complement your strengths](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/hire-employees-complement-your-strengths/) - A winning team does not have seven superstar pitchers. No, a baseball roster has to have players with all different abilities on the field.
- [Joe Gerstandt on Diversity and Inclusion Practices in Recruiting and Hiring](https://blog.narishintl.com/joe-gerstandt-on-diversity-and-inclusion-practices-in-recruiting-and-hiring/) - We recently spoke with Joe about how D&I practices impact recruiting and hiring.
- [How to Calculate the Cost of Employee Turnover in 2019](https://blog.narishintl.com/how-to-calculate-the-cost-of-employee-turnover/) - Learn a more straightforward way to calculate employee turnover costs in 2019 so that you know how much it may cost to replace an employee.
- [Barry Flack, HR Consultant and Hiring Expert](https://blog.narishintl.com/barry-flack-hr-consultant-and-hiring-expert/) - We asked Barry for his insights about how companies can hire better and improve their functioning in the 21st century.
- [How to Build an Effective Managerial Evaluation Form (with Sample Questions)](https://blog.narishintl.com/how-to-build-an-effective-managerial-evaluation-form-with-sample-questions/) - Read on for some tips on building a better managerial evaluation form and a companion downloadable with sample evaluation questions.
- [Psychographic Data: What It Is, Why It's Useful, and How It Helps with Talent Optimization](https://blog.narishintl.com/psychographic-data-what-it-is-why-its-useful-and-how-it-helps-with-talent-optimization/) - Click to learn about psychographic data and how to create talent personas that help your company to improve its hiring process and develop existing talent.
- [How to supercharge your leadership development program in 2019](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/how-to-supercharge-your-leadership-development-program-in-2019/#new_tab) - Click to learn some concrete ways in which your company can supercharge its leadership development program in 2019 for lasting results in the future.
- [The PI Behavioral Assessment: Your Hiring Crystal Ball for 2019](https://blog.narishintl.com/behavioral-assessments-for-hiring/) - Learn how behavioral assessments can predict hiring success like a crystal ball and why more companies are using them to make better hires.
- [The Essential Framework for Strategic Workforce Planning](https://blog.narishintl.com/strategic-workforce-planning/) - Learn about strategic workforce planning and how it can help your company be more successful with staffing and succession planning.
- [A Q&A with Tom Haak, Director of the HRTrend Institute, on the Present and Future of HR](https://blog.narishintl.com/a-qa-with-tom-haak-director-of-the-hrtrend-institute-on-the-present-and-future-of-hr/) - Tom Haak is the director of the HRTrend Institute. The HR Trend Institute follows, detects, and encourages trends.
- [Real-World Ways Talent Assessment Benefits the Business](https://blog.narishintl.com/real-world-ways-talent-assessment-benefits-the-business/) - Discover real-world benefits of using talent assessments both during the hiring process and for helping your existing employees perform better.
- [Real-World Leadership Development Lessons from Top CEOs](https://blog.narishintl.com/real-world-leadership-development-lessons-from-top-ceos/) - Learn about ways real-world CEOs develop leadership in their employees and identify it in their candidates before hiring, including by using assessments.
- [Q&A with Cynthia Trivella, Vice President of Strategic Relations at WorkScene.com, on the Evolution of HR](https://blog.narishintl.com/cynthia-trivella-evolution-of-hr/) - We recently spoke with Trivella about the evolution of HR and the need to rethink our approach when recruiting tomorrow's talent.
- [Jason Averbook, CEO of Leapgen, on Digital Transformation in HR and Talent Assessment Tools](https://blog.narishintl.com/jason-averbook-digital-transformation-in-hr-and-talent-assessment-tools/) - We spoke with him recently about why digital transformation is only 10% technology, and why recruiters are overlooking some of the best talent available.
- [Talent Assessments Make You a Better Leader: Here's Why](https://blog.narishintl.com/talent-assessments-make-you-a-better-leader/) - Learn about all the ways assessments can make you a better leader by helping you correctly identify the strengths and weaknesses of employees.
- [Q&A with Suzanne Lucas](https://blog.narishintl.com/qa-with-suzanne-lucas/) - Suzanne Lucas is the writer behind the Evil HR Lady blog, where she offers up an insightfully irreverent analysis of the latest HR news and trends.
- [Cognitive vs. Behavioral Assessments: Should You Do Both?](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/cognitive-vs-behavioral-assessments-should-you-do-both/#new_tab) - Learn about both cognitive and behavioral assessments and how they can help you predict which candidates will perform best in a given role.
- [PI Behavioral Assessment: How It Works, What It Measures, How to Do It](https://blog.narishintl.com/pi-behavioral-assessment-how-it-works-what-it-measures-how-to-do-it/) - Click here for a closer look at exactly what the Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment is, what it isn’t, what it measures, and how to implement it.
- [What Separates Top CEOs from the Rest?](https://blog.narishintl.com/what-separates-top-ceos-from-the-rest/) - Top CEOs know that talent optimization—finding, keeping and developing the skills of top talent with a variety of strategies—will determine their success.
- [The Interview Is Not Enough -- Here's Why](https://blog.narishintl.com/pre-hiring-assessment/) - Learn about the value of pre-hire assessments to the overall hiring process and how assessments can help companies identify top talent.
- [Hiring for Culture vs. Skills: Which Is the Better Option?](https://blog.narishintl.com/hiring-for-culture-vs-skills-which-is-the-better-option/) - Click to learn whether it is better to hire for a compatible corporate culture or the best possible skills, or whether there is another best option when hiring.
- [The Essential Guide to Talent Assessment for 2019](https://blog.narishintl.com/guide-talent-assessment/) - Increasing numbers of HR leaders are using workforce analytics to improve hiring and management outcomes according to the 2019: State of People Analytics report. This is excellent news! Unfortunately, there are still roadblocks standing between these forward-thinking leaders and their efforts to attract the best people. Too many organizations define ambitious business results but forget
- [Want to Foster Innovation? Take a Hard Look at Your Hiring Process First](https://blog.narishintl.com/hiring-process/) - If you’ve said something like, “Finding good people is nearly impossible!” recently, it’s time to shake up your hiring processes. Click here to learn how.
- [Going Beyond the Resume to Find the Right Candidate](https://blog.narishintl.com/talent-assessment/) - Find out how talent assessments can help companies hire smarter, faster, and better by revealing a truer picture of each candidate than a resume alone can do.
- [A 5-Step Guide to Building an Employee Engagement Plan](https://blog.narishintl.com/employee-engagement-plan/) - Are you interested in increasing employee happiness and engagement? Click here for pro tips on creating an employee development plan that will help you accomplish those goals.
- [Predictive Hiring is Revolutionizing Recruiting -- Here's How](https://blog.narishintl.com/predictive-hiring/) - HR professionals once had to fill roles based mainly on candidates’ education, experience, and interview skills. The rest was left to chance—and gut instincts.
- [How to Strengthen Your Talent Management Strategy in 2019](https://blog.narishintl.com/strengthen-your-talent-management-strategy/) - Harvard Business Review recently tracked three top-performing companies that reshaped their industries and discovered some commonalities.
- [Top 4 Factors that Make Talent Management Work](https://blog.narishintl.com/make-talent-management-work/) - Organizations beyond tech are going agile in a major way.
- [Not Voodoo: It is pure Science](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/getting-skeptics-comfortable-with-assessments/) - Behavior and cognitive assessments can yield amazing results by helping to solve a number of business challenges, from finding the right talent to coaching and developing leaders and strong teams.
- [Cognitive:The secret to building a learning organization](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/building-a-learning-organization-from-the-ground-up/) - Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of General Electric, once said, “an organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
- [David' new slingshot against Goliath in the fight for talent!](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/competing-with-the-big-boys-for-top-talent/#new_tab) - If you’re a small business leader, you may think it’s impossible to compete with the “big boys” when it comes to recruiting the best and brightest talent.
- [An Accelerated Marketing Process For Engineered Solutions](https://blog.narishintl.com/an-accelerated-marketing-process-for-engineered-solutions/) - “There’s a way to do it better - find it.” These were the famous words of the inventor Thomas Edison. According to Forbes, approximately 543,000 entrepreneurs search for this way each month. And with almost 28 million small businesses in the U.S., there is never a lack of intrepid souls embarking on a potentially lucrative enterprise.
- [Talent Optimization: It is Profitable](https://blog.narishintl.com/talent-optimization-it-is-profitable/) - Recently, we reviewed the 21st HR Metrics and Analytics Summit report: How to Hire and Retain the Right Talent in 2019. It shed light on HR’s journey with regards to using metrics, data, and people analytics in the workplace.
- [The Employee Skills Gap: California Has A Solution](https://blog.narishintl.com/the-employee-skills-gap-california-has-a-solution/) - Owning a business comes with a specific set of challenges. Adding to that mix, employee training is one issue that is typically pushed aside; it’s even thought of as “out of sight, out of mind.”
- [The Necessity of an ERP System](https://blog.narishintl.com/the-necessity-of-an-erp-system/) - Enterprise resource planning, or ERP, is a software package that allows businesses to use a system of integrated management applications. ERP integrates all aspects of a modern business operation, including planning, development, manufacturing, marketing and sales and customer services.
- [Poor Organizational Fit and Employee Retention](https://blog.narishintl.com/poor-organizational-fit-and-employee-retention/) - Why do employees Quit? Disengagement can be caused by misalignment with jobs, managers, and teams, but it’s possible that you might love what you do and who you do it with and still be unhappy at work.
- [Team Fit: One Key to Employee Retention](https://blog.narishintl.com/team-fit-one-key-to-employee-retention/) - Top organizations are built on high-functioning teams. That’s because a team that’s fully aligned is greater than the sum of its parts; team members enjoy enhanced creativity and more successful risk-taking.
- [Talent Optimization: The proven way to build an Engaged Workforce](https://blog.narishintl.com/talent-optimization-the-proven-way-to-build-an-engaged-workforce/) - Take a good hard look at your company. Is it performing at its absolute best? If you’re like most leaders, you struggle to overcome common business challenges like turnover, employee disengagement, a changing market, bad hires (the list goes on and on).
- [Matching an employee' natural strengths to reduce turnover.](https://blog.narishintl.com/matching-an-employee-natural-strengths-to-reduce-turnover/) - It takes time to find good talent—and employee turnover costs add up—so losing even one team member can hurt.
- [Minimizing the cost of employee turnover with smart hiring!](https://blog.narishintl.com/minimizing-the-cost-of-employee-turnover-with-smart-hiring/) - When you’re building a team, you don’t just want to fill a seat—you want to find the right person, and you want to do it fast.
- [Great Managers are a key to employee engagement!](https://blog.narishintl.com/great-managers-are-a-key-to-employee-engagement/) - There are four factors that disrupt employee engagement: poor job fit, poor manager fit, poor culture fit, and poor team fit.
- [Understanding the link between Behavioral Drive and Job Role](https://blog.narishintl.com/understanding-the-link-between-behavioral-drive-and-job-role/) - Why does a great employee in computer repair not great at selling a service warranty? They might not cross-sell products like you ask them to, or even embody your brand promise of customer service.
- [Importance of fostering employee creativity!](https://blog.narishintl.com/importance-of-fostering-employee-creativity/) - Are you giving consideration to the importance of creativity? Too many executives limit their thinking when it comes to creativity and blithely assume that it’s the purview of the design department or the marketing team. But in most organizations these days, creativity is what drives innovation—and innovation is what drives profits. If you’re not sure
- [Decoding your Needs by understanding your Drives!!](https://blog.narishintl.com/decoding-your-needs-by-understanding-your-drives/) - Have you ever been in a meeting or at a social gathering where a seemingly innocuous conversation unexpectedly goes sideways, causing one person to suddenly clam up or become defensive? These types of encounters can leave you momentarily stunned, unless you can simultaneously understand the root cause of the reaction and how best to respond
- [Great leaders leave their ego at the check in counter!](https://blog.narishintl.com/great-leaders-leave-their-ego-at-the-check-in-counter/) - To become a great leader you must take control over one major part of yourself: your ego. Keeping your ego in check is a lifelong pursuit.
- [Employee Engagement: Focus on Grinders first!](https://blog.narishintl.com/employee-engagement-focus-on-grinders-first/) - Employee engagement is a buzzword for managers these days, and for good reason. Gallup’s recent State of the American Workplace showed that employee engagement increases productivity by 17 percent and boosts profitability by 21 percent. With these benefits in mind, you can see that engaged employees are the key to a productive and profitable workforce. But when
- [American Workforce: 5 Generations in harmony!](https://blog.narishintl.com/american-workforce-5-generations-in-harmony/) - Five different generations is what the American workforce is comprised of today.
- [Managing the Next Greatest Generation: The Millennials](https://blog.narishintl.com/managing-the-next-greatest-generation-the-millennials/) - If you’re a manager, there’s a good chance you manage a millennial.
- [Employee Engagement:The easy money!](https://blog.narishintl.com/employee-engagementthe-easy-money/) - Here is a startling figure. 13 percent of global workers are engaged, according to Gallup.
- [Being mediocre is costly](https://blog.narishintl.com/being-mediocre-is-costly/) - Groundbreaking companies cannot be built on the efforts of mediocre employees. It is absolutely shocking the number of firms that languish while they put off eliminating underperforming employees.
- [Leadership and Risk: Can it be measured?](https://blog.narishintl.com/leadership-and-risk-can-it-be-measured/) - One’s risk profile, or natural comfort with taking risks, is important to consider when hiring at all levels of an organization, especially when hiring at the executive level.
- [Talent Optimization: Keys to a successful implementation](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/from-hire-to-retire-how-assessments-stand-the-test-of-time/) - A key element of Talent Optimization are the assessments of the position and the individual.
- [Choices: 10 Questions to Ask and Answer!](https://www.predictiveindex.com/blog/10-questions-to-ask-when-choosing-an-assessment/) - Assessments are effective tools for understanding the people who make up your workforce. These data-driven tools can help you evaluate candidates, organize teams and develop employees, and give you unprecedented confidence and accuracy in the selection and development of the individuals you depend on to make your company successful. However, assessments come in many different

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