Tired of Forcing Company Culture? Start Forming It Instead

Hey, haven’t we discussed this before? This is a Vitru lookback article, where we build off learnings from years and trends past. Sometimes we’ll discover that our workplace trends were right on the money; other times we may see that our musings around talent management and company culture predictions were a little off. Either way…

Old School Management Tweaks for the New Generation

One would think with the number of Slack App downloads, every company in the world has adopted a new-gen management style. Open, collaborative and teamwork oriented organizations are en-trend but there is still a gap between the new worker generation we call Millennial and old school management techniques where they work. A 2015 Gallup study found that about 50% of the 7,200 adults surveyed left a job “to get away…

5 Habits to Build Trust Amongst Your Team

Playing a team sport means not being involved in every big play. You trust your teammates to do their job when it’s their turn. Giving up a part of the control of a situation, because no single person can do it all themselves, is how a communal effort gets accomplished. A good team doesn’t hope for internal trust, it’s built on it. Build trust…

The Road to a Reputable Employer Brand Starts at Talent Alignment

Why oh why do so many organizations look externally for talent before taking a look at their existing talent? For the most part the answer lies in a sad reality—too many organizations fail to take inventory and assess their current talent, nor does the average organization have a system to do so. If an organization…

Effective Team Building Prevents “Members Only” Organizations

Members only organizations are those with exclusionary hiring practices. They end up looking and feeling like a clone factory or old school country club. These practices not only stifle innovation, they create a feeling of “other” that people are getting pretty fed up with. Academic, writer and entrepreneur, Vivek Wadhwa (@Wadhwa) has been causing quite a stir…

Vitru Value Series: Incorporating Feedback Into the Daily Grind

Editor’s Note: Vitru puts knowledge into the hands of people who need it: managers, teams, employees. Using psychometric assessment testing, each personality is broken down and segmented into a microcosm of work values and traits. Just as each employee has a unique persona, each work value embodies its own narrative. This multi-part blog series sets…

The Single Most Important Leadership Skill for Scaling

The goal in business isn’t ever to stagnate, or keep hitting the same numbers. Barring another major economic recession, every organization has the united goal of growing and being successful. Scaling is really a business must, and according to Barry Schuler (@BSchuler), who is credited with being one of the pioneers of the modern Internet…

Pros & Cons of Having a Challenger Employee: How to Deal

60% of workers are now asked to take workplace assessments in today’s modern workforce. This means more managers than ever have insight on their employees, how to work effectively within a team’s innate culture and what to expect when a new employee walks into the office on Monday. All of these are useful when we’re talking about the “fun”…