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  • Get DRiV Certified

    Get DRiV Certified

    The DRiV Certification workshop is a two-day experience equipping the coach with a strong foundation in the DRiV and the ability to fully leverage the DRiV Suite of Tools.

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  • Assessments 101: Choosing the Right Tool

    Assessments 101: Choosing the Right Tool

    As organizations and their leaders, including HR leaders, consider what assessments to leverage to help maximize their team member’s potential

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  • Creating High-Performing Teams

    Creating High-Performing Teams

    A few years ago, Google was interested in understanding what could predict an effective team. If they could figure that out, they would improve the likelihood of creating high-performing teams. Using team and manager evaluations, Google identified 180 teams to study, including a mix of previously identified high- and low-performing teams. Factors reviewed included personality…

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  • What Really Matters When Providing Effective Feedback?

    What Really Matters When Providing Effective Feedback?

    There is no dispute that feedback can be a great tool for activating development or improvements across the board

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  • Driven Not Drained

    Driven Not Drained

    Recent statistics suggest that more than 85 percent of people worldwide are disengaged from their jobs, and yet we spend almost half of our waking hours at work.

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  • The Science Behind The DRiV

    The Science Behind The DRiV

    The DRiV is rooted in reputable research on what drives human behavior. Integrating streams of research from motivation, leadership, social psychology …

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  • Time to Create a Development Plan!

    Time to Create a Development Plan!

    As you are thinking about setting personal goals for the year, it is a great time to consider your career and development goals as well. It is easy to get into our routine and focus on the here and now, forgetting that we need to “own” our career. Yet, to really “own” our career, we…

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  • Doing What You Love? Loving What You Do?

    Doing What You Love? Loving What You Do?

    Does your job inspire your passion – or merely occupy your attention? Our culture is wired to view work negatively (TGIF!) while paradoxically defining an individual’s success through his or her job. Here’s the mixed message: You are what you do – but don’t expect to like it!

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  • Gaining 2020 Vision: 4 Keys to Leveraging Self-Awareness

    Gaining 2020 Vision: 4 Keys to Leveraging Self-Awareness

    This time of the year, attention shifts to making resolutions, taking personal inventories, or charting paths to greater self-awareness. While such contemplation can be healthy and motivating, it can also lead to paralysis, evidenced by inaction and non-productive navel-gazing.

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  • Adaptability Improves Leadership: 4 Tips for Growth

    Adaptability Improves Leadership: 4 Tips for Growth

    Do you want to demonstrate leadership worth following? Would you like to develop your “ability to guide, direct, or influence people in a way that has great merit, character, and value”? If so, learn to be more adaptable.

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  • Featured DRiV Consultant: Ann V. Deaton, PhD, PCC

    Featured DRiV Consultant: Ann V. Deaton, PhD, PCC

    A DRiV workshop at an IT consulting company helped employees explore and embrace their similarities and differences, contributing to increased self-awareness, engagement, and motivation.

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  • Building a Strong Bench: 6 Tips for Leadership Succession Planning

    Building a Strong Bench: 6 Tips for Leadership Succession Planning

    For sports teams, building a strong bench is a key success factor, so reserve players can assume starting roles when needed. An organization’s long-term success also requires a strong bench. Here are 6 leadership succession planning tips.

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