Prism® Stories: Versatile Vikram As part of an ongoing series, we shall intermittently surface stories through the lens of Prism: Vikram loved life and people, and both seemed to love him back. His energy...
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From Me to We Powerful personality types are all around us, within our families, our social circles, and our teams at work. While each of these areas is equally subject to the impact of...
Gobbling up Gratitude It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the circumstances surrounding us, as illustrated in this scene below from the sitcom The Good Place. Current economic conditions and the myriad implications thereof can certainly diminish...
Prism® Stories: Powerful Pamela As part of an ongoing series, we shall intermittently surface stories through the lens of Prism: Pamela’s days were filled with action and purposeful movement dedicated to the many projects...
USA Diving coaches will leverage SurePeople’s award-winning platform – powered the Prism® psychometric algorithm – to elevate communication, accelerate athlete development, and maximize individual and team performance in advance of the 2024 Olympics in...
The Hidden Luminescence in Obsolescence While concerns of artificial intelligence and its place in our workplaces remain prominent, notably evidenced by this year’s writer’s strike, a gradual osmosis may yield unexpectedly positive results, delineated here by the...
Turn Up The Heat As the Texas Rangers find themselves on the grand stage of the World Series, the pressure cooker of high-stakes baseball mirrors the stress many of us encounter in our daily...
The Phantom of Flexibility The evening of ghouls and ghosts draws near, yet many of us are already held in the icy grasp of despair. A palpable dread hangs in the air, saturating unfortunate...
Make the Invisible Visible We’ve all experienced the challenge of working alongside someone who does everything differently than we do. If we’re organized, they’re chaotic. If we’re technical, they’re figurative. If we’re punctual, they’re...
Forming & Storming Teamwork isn’t something that just happens when a group of people gather to perform a task together. Various intricacies permeate team dynamics, many of which can be either helpful or harmful....
The Right Fit How we integrate and interact with the people around us might largely depend on personality, both theirs and ours. This is true in personal relationships as well as professional. Despite the...
NEW YORK, September 26, 2023 (Newswire.com) Odgers Berndtson US and SurePeople are reinventing Executive Onboarding with the launch of a groundbreaking new program leveraging SurePeople’s award-winning platform, powered by the Prism® psychometric algorithm and Harvard...
The Tetris of Onboarding Many organizations and leaders have varying perspectives and practices around team development and recruitment. While some allow for flexibility, congruous with the work-life balance desires of many workers today, others cater...
Worth Over Work The word “productivity” sometimes invokes a sense of dread and menace. After all, how often is it uttered in flattering terms, connotative of praise? Usually, it’s invocative of eliciting more out...
Villainy vs. Humanity The bosses we’ve seen depicted during childhood, those like Cosmo Spacely of The Jetsons, Mr. Slate of The Flintstones, Mr. Burns of The Simpsons, and so many others may all be caricatures of a...
The Race to Nowhere People-centric leadership is an idea often praised; its absence often felt. It’s an absence poignantly noticed when encountering an unnecessary hurdle while simply doing a job, when having to wait...
The Fall of Aristotle Though recent events like the Great Reshuffle helped emphasize the necessity of psychological safety, the concept has existed since the 1960s and saw a resurgence when researcher Amy Edmonson detailed...
SurePeople’s platform provides the coaching staff with real-time communication coaching tools, development solutions, and analytics to elevate team communication, accelerate athlete development and improve talent evaluation analysis. CHICAGO, IL – August 21, 2023 – SurePeople,...
Summer Skill Series: Embracing Change What is Embracing Change? Change happens whether we like it or not, whether we resist it or welcome it. Fear of change doesn’t deter its arrival. Plan and strategize...
Summer Skill Series: Relationship Building What is Relationship Building? From the commercialism of romantic tropes to the necessity of cohesiveness between work colleagues, our relationships and the quality thereof have often been a nuanced...
Summer Skill Series: Release Control What is Releasing Control? If our thoughts are exclusively devoted to things that we have to take care of, whether they be work issues or other errands that always...
Summer Skill Series: Feedback What is Feedback? To develop ourselves and the people around us, we must turn to the pivotal—though sometimes overlooked—practice of feedback. We’ve all seen and perhaps even experienced the most...
Summer Skill Series: Patience What is Patience? Take a deep breath and count to ten—we’ve all probably heard this ubiquitous bit of advice at some point. Despite seeming like an obvious call to action,...
Summer Skill Series: Social Awareness What is Social Awareness? Social awareness is the ability to pick up on social cues and the moods of others. It’s a particular perceptiveness that allows us to read...
Summer Skill Series: Appreciation & Recognition What is Appreciation & Recognition? We all want to feel valued in some way or another. But instead of waiting for recognition to come to us, we should...
Summer Skill Series: Awareness of Others’ Needs What is Awareness of Others’ Needs? The “Golden Rule”—the age-old adage that we’ve all heard a thousand times over—insists that we should treat others as we would...
Summer Skill Series: Compassion What is Compassion? We know that empathy is the exact opposite of apathy. If apathy is to not concern ourselves with the feelings of another, then empathy is to care...
The Dog Days of Summer Summer has typically been seen as a time for trips with family and outings with friends, demonstrated by various summertime ads about destination getaways and backyard barbecues. Yet over...
Be a Coach, Become a Leader How well we lead and work with others tends to correlate with how well we get along with them. Teamwork is easy when the people we work with...
Artificial Companionship As a society, we’ve largely come to rely on our technology and devices to fill in for connectiveness and community. We assign human attributes like names to digital assistants or even vehicles....
The Flowers Along the Way With so much going on around us, it can seem hard to pause for a quick breather. But it’s in those intermittent pauses that we can discover moments of...
To Face a Dragon The topic of mental health can sometimes feel like some dark entity, a seething dragon lurking within the shadowy caverns of our mind. To face it, some of us may...
Malfunction Junction Collaborative work is essential to most endeavors we undertake, whether we’re launching new products, helping patients, or winning championships. Collaboration helps us work smarter, come up with innovative ideas, and makes us...
The Cure for Burnout We’ve seen in recent years that when people don’t feel valued or respected, they respond in various ways such as “quiet quitting” or “rage applying.” Many of us have even been there...
Our Unconscious Worlds Emotional intelligence is hard. It’s one thing to recognize and manage our own emotions. It’s another thing to understand the cause of those emotions. Where emotions come from, why they take...
The False Equation of Time & Money We are challenged by stress every day. It might even be intensified by several factors ranging from inflation to general loneliness. Such stress makes personal moments of...
Midnight Poutine Think back to the last fun moment at work. Was the work itself fun? Did the fun come from interacting with colleagues? Though the ideas of fun and work are sometimes seen...
The Fellowship of Turmoil Many of us are feeling the pinch of stress or its sinister sibling, anxiety. Economic and international pressures are far from ideal. Such uncertainty can be particularly daunting, especially if...
Emotions & The Shape of Reality For many of us, emotions shape our realities. They play a large role in our view of a particular person, place, or situation. If we were especially hungry...
Quiet Hiring & The Age of Automation Like so many things, the modern office is in a constant state of flux. So too must we be in flux, ready for imminent change around the...
Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica Fear of technology and its supposed imminent rise to prominence has long lingered in our collective consciousness. Though perhaps most famously displayed in Hollywood theatrics ranging from the explosive battles...
Curb Your Enthusiasm There are times when it feels like everything is going our way. No matter what we do, success stacks atop success, filling us with joy, optimism, and hope. The euphoria spills...
Click here to read the thorough report on mental health and the student athlete experience. “Playing a sport in college, honestly, feels like playing fruit ninja with a butter knife. There are watermelons and...
What Kind of Egg Are You? Sometimes bad economic news tends to spill over the transom. From layoffs to inflation, troubling news can fully consume our background consciousness. With that uncertainty comes feelings of...
SurePeople’s platform provides FIU baseball coaching staff with real-time communication coaching tools, development solutions and analytics to elevate team communication, accelerate athlete development and improve talent evaluation analysis. CHICAGO, IL – March 2, 2023 –...
Imposters Among Us Who we are as individuals is a sometimes-complicated line of thought. For many of us, who we are depends on what we are. Our careers can often become the foundation of...
MLB coaching staffs, players and front offices are using SurePeople’s real-time communication coaching tools, development solutions and analytics to elevate team communication, accelerate athlete development and improve talent evaluation analysis. CHICAGO, IL – February...
In the Absence of Trust Though the importance of personal relationships is pronounced throughout society to the point of ad nauseam, many of us experience a dearth of meaningful connections. While the decline of...
SurePeople’s platform provides the men’s basketball and the softball coaching staffs with real-time communication coaching tools, development solutions and analytics to elevate team communication, accelerate athlete development and improve talent evaluation analysis. CHICAGO, IL...
Perchance to Dream Stability isn’t easy to come by, especially as economic pressures continue to rack our teams. It’s no secret that the bulk of our workforce, millennials and Generation Z, face particularly daunting...
SurePeople’s platform provides Rangers’ managers, coaches, and staff with real-time communication coaching tools and development solutions, and the talent acquisition team with advanced analytics and powerful, precision insights about prospective talent and their potential...
Out with the Old It’s not uncommon to blur the distinction between “stable” and “stale.” We may think that stability brings with it a lack of excitement, perhaps even outright boredom. Indeed, even our...
SurePeople’s platform provides Georgia coaching staff with real-time communication coaching tools, development solutions and analytics to elevate team communication, accelerate athlete development and improve talent evaluation analysis. CHICAGO, IL – February 6, 2023 – SurePeople,...
Stability vs. Anxiety Though pandemic concerns had ebbed by the start of the year, inflation writhes around us and a potential shadow of recession looms ahead, inspiring apprehension about coming days. Fear of the...
Perception is Not Reality Amongst the persistence of balancing work and life routines exists the great challenge of balancing relationships. With work and life feeling more intertwined than ever before, the necessity to weigh...
Collaboration in Isolation We find ourselves simultaneously more connected yet disconnected than ever before. The open-door policies of old have become intensified. While we may not be able to casually wander over to someone’s...
I, Human It wasn’t too long ago that many were touting Meta’s “metaverse” as the solution for virtual offices. It was proposed as offering a Sims-like workplace of the future, an obvious answer to the distant-yet-connected...
Business Casual The new year brings with it a new age in the modern world of work. The rise of flexible work environments has many of us rethinking how we approach work. Numerous organizations...
A Carol of Control & Productivity, Part 2 Festivity makes us merry, and happy people are usually healthy people. Reflecting on our own experiences, we probably know that the day flies by when we enjoy...
CHICAGO, IL – December 27, 2022 – SurePeople, a technology innovator specializing in People Science, today announced that it has won three 2022 Gold Excellence in Technology awards from Brandon Hall Group in the categories of...
A Carol of Control & Productivity, Part 1 ‘Tis the season of jolly carols and twinkling lights. The mood of merriment is in full swing, our calendars marked by various events and get-togethers. We...
Brave New Shores Now is the time we begin to ponder what direction to steer our teams. For some, the past two years yielded a boost in productivity with the embrace of remote and hybrid workspaces....
Through the Forest Over the past few years, various companies like Adobe and General Electric have done away with the sometimes-dreaded blizzard of annual performance reviews, discussed here by leadership development service Lighthouse. The...
Harnessing the Power of Emotional, Relational and Team Intelligence (ERT-i) There’s growing recognition among leaders, researchers and educators that Emotional, Relational, and Team intelligence (“ERT-i”) is critical to personal and professional success. In fact, many...
Roads Not Taken The end of the year is almost upon us. This is typically a time when we look back and take stock of the year’s accomplishments—or what we missed along the way....
Perpetuating Merriment Gratitude and how we express it has always been important, and not just for those we express it to, but also for ourselves. By now, it’s well-known that expressing gratitude makes us...
20,000 Leagues of Personality, Part 3 Our channels of communication, the waters between us, can be a placid pond or a stormy sea. While we can carefully select our personal relationships, professional relationships aren’t...
20,000 Leagues of Personality, Part 2 It’s easy to feel detached, maybe even isolated in modern-day flexible workplaces. Communication channels perhaps seem muddled, not as buoyant as before. Worst still are the potentially submerged...
20,000 Leagues of Personality, Part 1 The pressure is certainly pushing down on us, unrelenting with its menacing tides and the seemingly perpetual flotsam of inflation and the housing crisis. To help ourselves and our...
The Masks We Wear, Part 2 Blood boils, vision turning red. Or stomachs get queasy, nerves turning to mush. This is conflict and Gotham City, haunting ground of the Batman and similar mascots of...
The Masks We Wear, Part 1 Gone is the glimmer of spring. Vanished is the tranquility of summer. Soon will come the festivity of winter. But first are the ghouls of October. Cut in...
Introduction Emotional intelligence is carried through an organization “like electricity through wires,” wrote Daniel Goleman two decades ago in the Harvard Business Review. “To be more specific, the leader’s mood is quite literally contagious,...
Chillingly Quiet, Part 3 A twilight of seasons is upon us, yet the concerns of this past summer aren’t yet far behind us. The worries of burnout continue to permeate many workplaces and teams,...
Chillingly Quiet, Part 2 As summer departs, taking with it traditional sentiments of joy and vibrancy, so does autumn descend, heralding a presumed dearth of those delights. Yet all needn’t be lost, as fall...
Chillingly Quiet, Part 1 In recent months, an apparently eerie new trend has crept through the world of work. As if heralding the bite of the fall equinox, repeated in harsh tones by broadcasters,...
Cultivating the Secret Garden Within, Part 3 “People don’t change,” goes the old saying. It might be more accurate to suggest that we can’t change someone else. Change, however, is indeed possible when we...
Cultivating the Secret Garden Within, Part 2 “Not the sharpest tool in the shed.” This expression is as ubiquitous as any, yet it perhaps misses the mark. We aren’t necessarily born sharp, after all....
Click here to read the thorough report on mental health and the athlete experience. “Stress-related illnesses are extremely common in professional sports, and they are becoming more so as the pressures on athletes increase”...
Cultivating the Secret Garden Within, Part 1 “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” This idiom depicting the struggle of self-growth has permeated society since the 1500s with its first mention in John...
SurePeople Briefing (August 2022) New data-driven approaches to reducing burnout, improving resilience and increasing retention are critical to reversing longstanding health workforce (“Healthforce”) challenges. Why? For one, the staffing crisis plaguing our nation’s hospitals...
The Screens Between Us, Part 2 In today’s world of video calls and remote work, it can be difficult to remember how to navigate the intricacies of human interaction. This era of constant communication...
The Silent Hero, Part 2 At the edge of words, perhaps disguised by practiced tone or chosen vocabulary, lurks the ever-present shadow of emotion. Whether we’re listening to colleagues or a conversation among friends,...
The Silent Hero, Part 1 Voices waft into the air around us, expressing joys or sorrows. They tell of new information or sudden challenges. We listen without comment. No words are needed, after all....
The Screens Between Us, Part I From the advent of electricity to sliced bread and beyond, technology has evolved to make our lives more convenient. The Internet in particular has significantly changed the ease...
A Sherlock of Others, Part 2 Nonverbal expressions and cues are a telltale means of interpreting the impact of words or situations on others. Emphasis on the importance of gestures and expressions has prevailed...
A Sherlock of Others, Part 1 To succeed in both our professional and social worlds, we must play well with others. The need to expertly tread the multifaceted arena of human interactions is crucial...
Highway From the Danger Zone, Part 2 Having spent the past weekend celebrating with loved ones, many of us are perhaps just now returning to our regular routines. Maybe we dove right back in—or we’re listlessly...
Rolling With the Punches, Part 2 If battling against the odds, or even just facing off against a grueling challenge, it’s important to contemplate our strategy. What defines our success against hardship? Is it...
Rolling With the Punches, Part 1 Over the past couple years, we’ve all heard the buzzword “resilience.” The term has often been used in reference to healthcare and “essential” workers. Yet resilience applies to...
Highway From the Danger Zone, Part 1 Summer is in full swing, kids are out of school, and a season of celebration is upon us. From recent Father’s Day to upcoming Independence Day, we glide along...
The Curious Case of Productivity The battle for employee productivity and retention has been waged since far before the Great Reshuffle. Eons ago, back in the early 2000s, retail giant Best Buy had endured...
This is the Way…of Work Our workplaces have evolved more rapidly than we could ever have anticipated. Consequently, the way we work must also evolve. Whereas once we would have physically seen the colleagues...
The Hybrid Workscape Our organizations, our offices—our teams—are often made up of very diverse individuals. As delineated by the AAUW and reports from others such as the Pew Research Center, our workforce is now more diverse than...
SurePeople’s EVP of Research and Data Science, Paul Tsagaroulis, discusses the importance of using people intelligence to assist leaders in optimizing their teams and transforming their organizations. Businesses rely on high-performing leaders and their...
You Are the Magic 8 Ball The utterance of “That’s not my job” or its companion phrase, “That’s not in my job description” are inevitable. Perhaps we ourselves have muttered these very same words....
The Distributed Team Working in a team isn’t always easy. Oftentimes we may feel that we’re doing more than our fair share and dragging dead weight across the finish line. Such is the fear...
Build Anew Change is never easy. It is difficult to accept and challenging to experience. But if recent times have taught us anything, it’s that versatility is not an option–it’s a need. The ability to...
Work with Life The spiraling storm of the Great Reshuffle still thunders across the world of work, forcing employees and employers alike to grasp onto the slippery concept of work-life balance. For instance, the restaurant industry...
Hunting for Happiness We might think of happiness as something to work towards, something achieved when we land that ideal job or move into that perfect house. Modern society has defined those as the...
Speak Up For What’s Right Numerous stories have bubbled into our peripheral for years, whispering of workplace fear—fear of retaliation, fear of job loss. It was a bleak warning to stay within the lines....
Our Values are Our Culture In our modern world of work, the term “workplace culture” has become something of a buzz phrase, not entirely dissimilar to food marketers capitalizing on terms like “GMO/Antibiotic-free.” Behind...